Our Honeybees
Honey bees are a type of bee that are best known for their production of honey and their crucial role in pollinating plants. They are social insects, meaning they live in colonies with a highly organized social structure. A honey bee colony typically consists of a queen bee, who is responsible for laying eggs, and thousands of worker bees, who perform tasks such as gathering nectar and pollen, caring for the young, and protecting the hive.
One of the most important roles that honey bees play is as pollinators. As they gather nectar and pollen from flowers, they transfer pollen from one flower to another, allowing plants to reproduce. This process is essential for the growth of many crops, and here on the farm, helps pollinate our vegetable and flower gardens!
Raw Honey
Raw Honey
Raw Honey
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Beeswax
Raw Honey
Raw Honey
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Did you know....
A Queen + Workers + Drones
A Queen + Workers + Drones
A Queen + Workers + Drones
There are three kinds of bees within the honeybee hive and they all have very specific jobs. There is the queen, the workers and the drones. The queen lays eggs and communicates within the hive using pheromones. The worker bees are all female and do all the work within and outside of the hive (cleaning, feeding baby bees, taking care of the queen, building and maintaining the honeycomb, temperature control, gathering nectar and pollen-to name a few...). The drones only job is to find a queen to mate with.
Distance + Speed
A Queen + Workers + Drones
A Queen + Workers + Drones
Honeybees can travel up to 12km to forage and can fly at a speed of 25 km per hour, beating their wings up to 200 times per second!
Waggle Dance
A Queen + Workers + Drones
Waggle Dance
When honey bees find a good food source and want to share this information with their friends they perform a "waggle dance". This is a figure 8 movement that they perform as it returns to the hive, indicating the direction of the food source!
Bee Keeping on the farm
