Hug's Honeybees
6600 Sage Ave V0H 1Z2 Summerland, BC, Canada

The honey is slow to pour, but is quick to sell! We are over 50% sold.. A big thank you to the purchasers for supporting a local apiary! Message us to pick up yours.

Honey is now available! 500g jar - $11 each. Pickup in Summerland. Local Summerland wildflower honey, unpasteurized and raw. Thank you for supporting a local apiary!

Honey is coming soon!

The honeybees have completed the hard part.. 683 bees fly roughly 52,000 km to gather 5.93 lbs of nectar from about 1,185,000 flowers in order to make one 250ml jar of our delicious honey.. The first filtered 11 litres being poured into the settling tank.. Honey is coming soon!

We have an extra two dozen eggs if anyone is in need of fresh farm eggs

First step of honey production: the bees are out collecting nectar and this mint plant seems to be a favourite spot!

The nuc yard has been cleaned up and the summer splits ready to produce queens for the spring. Nice afternoon shaded area to keep the colonies cool in the summer heat.

For sale! Unsexed barnyard mix chicks. Hatched today. $6 each.

Bee yard is looking fantastic! Finished our Provincial inspection and are now permitted to sell bee nucs!! We currently have 3x 5 frame nucs with 2020 queens ready for your hive. Delivery and installation into your hive along with you to inspect the frames can be arranged or pickup in a nuc box with a 5 frame exchange. Pm on Facebook or text/call at 778 363 6053... Tyler

It's a rain day.. So we'll just watch the action from the front door today..

Whoa! Swarms have been massive this season! This one came in at around 10 lbs.. 35,000 bees. Swarms in previous years have been 3 to 5 lbs...

**SOLD OUT** Fall honey harvest. 10x500ml jars remaining. This honey is from crushed honeycomb that was stored over the winter. Natural unpasteurised honey. Really high in pollen and propolis making it very opague. Packed full of all the health benefits of raw honey. ... $14 each. Fcfs, pickup in summerland with etransfer for social distancing.

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Swarm catching!

First splits of the year! Good selection of Queen cells.

Bee swarm season is nearly here. Help save the bees. Swarm rescue! I do rescue and re-home honeybee swarms in the Summerland and Penticton Area. Message me or give me a call at 778 363 6053

Mmmm! Delicious echinacea infused honey! We did this last year to try ourselves and it turned out great. 250 ml for $10, for sale now but recommended it sits in sunlight for 4 weeks to infuse.

Has your honey crystallised? This is very common with natural unpasteurised honey and does not mean it has gone bad! To fix this, boil a pot of water, take it off the stove and place the honey jar in the hot water till it cools. It'll return to its natural liquid state!

Limited supply of honey! Currently have : Liquid Honey, 500ml jar $14 Liquid Honey with raw honeycomb, 500ml jar $20 Raw honeycomb chunks. 200 gram minimum $18 each... Raw unpasteurised honey! Pickup in Summerland.

Excited to help local cider!

Mmmmm. Honeycomb!

There could be things brewing locally! Glad to help out with test samples of our honey and lavender.

The bee yard is beezy today!

Queen marking day! We use a non toxic paint pen to mark our queens with their birth year to make it easy to track her age. Green is 2019, red was 2018. Did you know the lifespan of the queen averages 2 to 3 years?

Interesting facts of the life cycle of a worker bee!

Well, time to retire my very first queen. She's decided to stop laying at the age of 4.. Average for a queen is 3 years. I got 2 really good splits from her this spring. Her colony identified that it was time to go.. You can see the Queen on the honeycomb and the Queen cell to the left of her(looks like a peanut in texture) in a few days a new queen will emerge!

Made the news! Keep helping us save the Bees!

A new swarm in it's new hive.. The guard bees are fanning the entrance indicating the queen is inside.

Another swarm catch! All the guard bees fanning the entrance with their behind up means the queen is in the new Hive!

Catching Swarms is always a very exciting experience!

Bees are an important part of our ecosystem.

Yummy!! Filtering fall honey.

New proud farm parents! 5 new chicks for the flock..

Success!! 2 new 2018 queens. Marked and fingers crossed for a strong colony for the winter

I have a similar setup to rescue bee swarms! Safe and harmless removal of bee swarms and colonies to help preserve the population. https://www.theverge.com//bee-swarm-times-square-hot-dog-s

Marking 3 new spring and 2 swarm queens today and preparing another stand for 2 more splits tomorrow! Crossing finger to hit the 15 hive goal to go into winter with.

For sale! FCFS, Farm fresh free range Eggs. $5 dozen, easy anytime pickup in Summerland. Message for availability.

Swarm rescue! I do rescue and re-home honeybee swarms in the Summerland and Penticton Area. Message me or give me a call at 778 363 6053