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About Us
Honeybee Centre is a commercial honey farm and visitor attraction located in the agricultural centre of Surrey, British Columbia. Our main business is renting beehives to pollinate blueberry flowers and ten other fruit crops, including cranberries, raspberries, and pumpkins. We rent over 6,000 colonies to 120 growers who produce more than $50 million worth of fruit annually. Our country store, open every day of the year, allows us to sell the eight different varieties of honey that we harvest along with a dozen more delicious types of honey that we import from around the world.
Since year 2001, we have taught more than 600 people basic and advance beekeeping, and for the past decade, we have ‘wrangled’ honeybees, wasps, and bumblebees for the film industry. In response to feedback from teachers who bring their students to our Centre, we have installed a Bees & Bugs lab so that we can demonstrate the difference between honeybees and other arthropods, like spiders and crickets.
With the five main products of the hive: honey, pollen, propolis, royal jelly, and beeswax, we manufacture our Apibee line of apitherapy health products that includes Vitality, Energy Plus, and Royal Honey. We also hand craft pure beeswax candles; tea lights, pillars, and tapers.
In year 2010 we started the Bee World Project, a not-for-profit organization that teaches commercial beekeeping to farmers in underdeveloped regions of the world. We want to do our part to help people who do not have the opportunities that we have been given.
Please do not hesitate to drop us a comment on Facebook or Twitter. We are always looking for ways to improve and we do not mind the odd compliment.
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Our country store is open every day of the week, year ‘round. We have 20 varieties of honey to taste, lots of health products to learn about and more bee-related gifts than you can imagine!Click here for directions and contact information. Click here |
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Can’t make it to our farm? Many of our products are available online within Canada. Get your honey fix from the comfort of your own home on our online store. Click here |
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Honeybee Centre is the home to the Bees & Bugs Lab. Check out our drop-in, self –guided, interactive exhibit with live honeybees, tarantulas, scorpions & more on display. Learn about invertebrates and other insects that we share our backyards with. Click here |
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We have a variety of beekeeping courses for everyone from beginners to experts. Our resident expert, Eric Stromgren, has a full course schedule for the year. Check out our Beekeeping Course page for more information. Click here |
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Honeybee Centre pollinates over 12 different crops in the lower mainland. For information on pollination, follow this link to our pollination services page. Click here |
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With over 10 years of experience, our beekeepers are on call during the spring and summer months to remove any type of bee or wasp nest in your house or on your property. Check out our Bee & Wasp Removal Services page for more information and pricing. Click here |
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Bee World Project is a not-for-profit organization whose mandate is to assist people from the poorer regions of the world to improve their quality of life through beekeeping. The organization supplies experienced teachers, equipment, honeybee livestock, and on-going expertise focusing on growing their client’s beekeeping operations large enough to export honey and beeswax to the world market. Their goal is to do this by introducing western style ‘removable frame’ beehives, stainless steel honey processing equipment, and internationally recognized food-safe protocols.
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We’re always thinking of new ways to entertain and educate. Our events calendar will let you know all the great things that are happening at Honeybee Centre including our annual Honeybee Festival and our spa nights. Click here |
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Find us, talk to us, email us. Click here |
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