We began keeping honey bees in 2019 with the intention to find and encourage survivor stock in Tijeras and Chimayo., New Mexico. Our apiaries are treatment free and allow the health and natural tendencies of the honey bee to guide our decisions in their management. You can find all of our goodies from the hive as well as check availability for queens and nucs in the shop.

We’ve been building our wooden ware using rough cut, New Mexico lumber and will be building boxes for sale in the very near future. Give us a shout or check the shop for availability.  We run Langstroth, top bar, Warre, and Comfort style hives at the apiaries and can create nucs for any of these style hives. Please contact us in advance to guarantee availability.

The continued keeping of honey bees and their long term health depends on the actions of backyard beekeepers.  Commercial beekeepers have bottom lines and encourage bees to produce for us at the bees’ expense. Those apiaries have bills to pay and can’t afford half of their hives lost to mites or swarms taking half of the production force before a nectar flow. Therefore, suppressing swarms and treating bees with chemicals and antibiotics is sometimes the only viable choice for those beekeepers. This creates a model of selection that favors bees that can’t survive without treatment and mites that survive despite it. Bottom line, the unfortunate side effects are weaker bees and stronger mites. Backyard beekeepers can help to reverse this trend by selecting and propagating survivor bees through splits and swarming.  Catching and trapping swarms in the Spring is a great way to get free, resilient bees! Our shop is another great place, though not free. By selecting local bees for your backyard or commercial apiary you are choosing to strengthen the local bee populations and lessen the need for chemical treatments.