Sponsor a Bee Hive
Sponsor A Bee Hive is our newest service targeting businesses with a ecological friendly profile. It offers the possibility for companies to invest in one or more bee hives and therefore help to establish or maintain an sustainable bee population in our communities.
Why Care For The Honey Bees
Honey bees pollinate over 130 plants for our nutritional benefit. One third of the food we eat depends on bee pollination.
The decline of the honey bee population in the US is caused by many factors.
Most importantly: Bee habitats are disappearing. Modern, industrialized agriculture renders massive area of monoculture inhabitable for honey bees and other pollinators. Because bees cannot live there all year long they have to be brought in by migratory commercial beekeepers for the short blooming period where pollination has to take place. As industrialized agriculture is not the solution for producing healthy food, commercial beekeeping is not the solution for sustainable beekeeping in our communities.
We, as communities in rural, suburban or urban areas need to take on the task to keep honey bees around us and provide an inhabitable environment for honey bees. We need more stationary bee hives in our diverse, less polluted rural, suburban or even urban environment.
How to get involved
You invest in one or more beehives and in the care taking of them.
By your choice you can own the bees and the equipment or not and you can provide a location for the hive(s) or not. Here are the three options:
Local Ownership: you own the bee hive(s) and provide a place for them.
Features:
• You own the bees and equipment. This means that you can eventually manage the colonies yourself, if desired.
• With the help of Bee Forever Apiary you find the best location for the bee hives on your premises or somewhere outside (i.e. the property of an interested employee)
• Bee Forever Apiary installs and takes care of the bees through regular visits
• Upon special request Bee Forever Apiary offers an additional Mentoring Program that enables interested employees to learn back to back during every visit by Bee Forever Apiary.
Optional Additional Event:
• Annual educational show ‘n tell event about honey bees hosted by Bee Forever Apiary at your desired location. You can choose the topics and how the event should happen.
Remote Ownership: you own the bee hive(s) and the hives will be placed by Bee Forever Apiary
Features:
• You own the bees and hive equipment.
• Bee hive(s) is/are placed by Bee Forever Apiary. No traveling costs will be charged.
• You can decide to move the hive at any time. However, additional traveling costs may then apply.
Optional Additional Events:
• Annual educational show ‘n tell event about honey bees hosted by Bee Forever Apiary at your desired location. You can choose the topics and how the event should happen.
• Opportunity to participate in an annual field day to visit your hive(s) and learn about the bees.
Remote Sponsorship: you sponsor one or more bee hives with no ownership involved and the hives will be placed by Bee Forever Apiary.
Features:
• You sponsor the operation of one or more bee hives without any responsibility of ownership.
• The bee hive(s) is/are placed by Bee Forever Apiary.
Optional Additional Event:
• Opportunity to participate in an annual field day to visit your hive(s) and learn about bees.
For more information and pricing call (360) 894-6038 or contact us at bee4forever@fairpoint.net