Renewing Brain Cells with BCHPA beekeeping speakers
Spring always brings the promise of new opportunities and discoveries. Our winter months are consumed with cleaning and rebuilding equipment, expanding capacity and ordering supplies for the coming year. But as the snow recedes up into the mountains, it also brings us closer to one of our favourite
On Agriculture Minister Lana Popham’s Support For Bees in B.C.
March is always a frenetic time for us. We’re just coming out of winter, full of hope for our bees and eager for the new season. It is also the month that delivers new information and ideas, and when theoretical information can transform into practical use. I’m speaking about the B.C. Honey Prod
How Will Canada’s Farmers Handle the COVID-19 Crisis?
There is an element about this Coronavirus pandemic that is being overlooked. With Canada – and indeed most of the rest of the world – now putting in travel restrictions and recommendations for “self-isolation” for at least 14 days, there is going to be significant disruption
Our Response To COVID-19
Dear Customers, We are, like most everyone, following the Coronavirus developments very closely. We continue to monitor the latest advice from our provincial and federal health agencies on the COVID-19 pandemic. We want you to know that we have already taken precautionary measures to play our part i
Two Years On, An Interview About Beekeeping Careers
It’s been two full beekeeping seasons since Amanda and I took over an established commercial operation in Creston. It meant leaving our familiar urban milleu of Vancouver and environs, and building a new life in British Columbia’s rural southeast corner. Now, as we also launch a newly-redesigned
Alberta Small Hive Beetle find means trouble for B.C. beekeepers
Small Hive Beetle, a nasty little pest that B.C. has already had a small taste of, has raised its ugly head in Alberta.And, as seems to be the case so often these days, it is as a result of hitching a ride with an unsuspecting beekeeper. The situation in this case is much more grave […]
Feed The Bees: a community effort to feed – and save – ourselves
by Jeff on JULY 4, 2011 in NEWS After Saturday’s publication in The Vancouver Sun of our new Honey Bee Zen blog, I received a note from Ian Tait, an old Olympics friend who is now involved in an effort to help bees make it in this tough world of ours. It’s called Feed The Bees. Flying h
World Supplier of Nosema Medication Fumagilin-B Shuts Down
Beekeepers have an increasingly difficult time keeping their bees healthy. Whether it is mites, a stunning array of viruses, small hive beetle or the two versions nosema, Nosema apis and its more virulent cousin, Nosema ceranae, there seems no end of ways for bees to get sick and die. The Canadia
New honey in our Swan Valley operations in Creston!
It’s that time. We’re pulling the first honey of the season off our new yards in Creston and getting it bottled for delivery to waiting customers. This week is an important one for us: we’re still in the midst of moving to Creston and are juggling two operations at and at Honey Bee Zen Apiari
New adventures for Honey Bee Zen Apiaries and Swan Valley Honey
We’re moving to Creston! Amanda Goodman Lee and Jeff Lee, the co-owners of Honey Bee Zen Apiaries Ltd, have bought Swan Valley Honey from Doug and Nora Crumback. We will be continuing the tradition of producing great Creston Valley honey. We’re even keeping the same Swan Valley Honey telephone