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BEES! Yayyyyyy, it's Bee Season 2025! But first - some housekeeping!
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These policies can be read online here, along with our cancellation and date change policies: https://www.goldstarhoneybees.com/bee-order-policies-2/.
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Meanwhile here's the scoop on the bees!
Gold Star Honeybees are raised treatment-free.
They are 3-pound packages with naturally mated, unmarked queens. The queen ships in a small cage of her own, tucked inside the package, along with several attendant bees.
They are raised on small-cell foundation, making them ideal for all hive types where the bees will make their own wax. They are just fine for all other hive types too.
They are "mutt bees" - a very hardy mix of Russian, Italian, and Carniolan genetics.
They are "four season bees" - acclimated to a climate with four seasons and winter hardy! They are raised in northern Georgia, Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina and the great state of Tennessee and they will ship to you from Maryland.
Wondering what ship dates work for your locale?
Visit the Old Farmer's Almanac here - to choose a date that's close to or just after the average last frost in your area.
Wondering how to get the bees into your hive?
Download your FREE Top Bar Hive Start-Up Handbook here - for step by step instructions for hiving bees in your new top bar hive! Oh, you're more of a YouTube fan? Here's a video!
Are you new to top bar hive beekeeping? Visit Amazon (or your favorite local bookstore) for two great how-to books:
- The Thinking Beekeeper - A Guide to Natural Beekeeping in Top Bar Hives
- Advanced Top Bar Beekeeping - Next Steps for the Thinking Beekeeper
Or... do you appreciate remote learning? Wish you could attend a Top Bar Hive Beekeeping Class? In April 2020, at the beginning of COVID, we recorded the Gold Star Top Bar Hive Beekeeping Weekend Intensive. It's a full, (unedited, so sort of scruffy) weekend-long class -- "Soup to Nuts!" on keeping bees in top bar hives. Now, since we shut down our Patreon Channel and our Vimeo page - you can find it here -- for free:
Day 1: https://youtube.com/live/lw36ab3aXoY?feature=share
Day 2: https://youtube.com/live/aJIwJoQ-HHI?feature=share
