Nith Valley Apiaries

Nith Valley Apiaries Nith Valley Apiaries provides nature's sweetener from their bees to you! Our goal is to maintain a small family farm atmosphere with friendly, honest service.

Originally started in 1918, Nith Valley Apiaries has been passed on through four owners, each learning from the previous beekeeper. Our beeyards dot the countryside throughout Perth and Waterloo counties, where we produce pure, natural honey for our local community using organic methods. We offer honey and comb, beeswax, pollen and propolis, as well as beeswax candles, specialty flavoured honeys,

event favours and custom gift baskets (some items are seasonal). Our store hours are Tuesday from 11am to 5pm, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 9am to 5:30pm, and Saturday from 9am to noon. If you cannot make these hours, give us a call (519-662-3165) and we may be able to schedule an appointment. We hope you will drop in for a visit!

DATE WITH THE GIRLS IN THE BEEYARDS!-Around here Mike is the beekeeper and Erika takes care of things around the honey f...
04/10/2026

DATE WITH THE GIRLS IN THE BEEYARDS!
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Around here Mike is the beekeeper and Erika takes care of things around the honey farm... that's how it works for them :D

Erika has not spent much time in the beeyards since staying home looking after their 3 boys and background aspects of the business, so she was eager to go out there and get some one on one time with the girls and Mike.

With spring upon us and the hives gearing up but fluctuating weather in the forecast; Mike and Erika made it a work date with the bees recently (while the boys had a fun day with Oma). They spent the day together checking many bee yards more closely, collecting winter survival rates, readjusted resources in the hives and supplemented pollen to ensure the bees make it through these fluctuating spring weather conditions without starving.

Pollen is a super food and for the bees it's their primary source of protein, vitamins, minerals and full complex of all amino acids. It's the first food source they bring home to feed their young larvae. If its too cold for too long and they run out of pollen, they may abort taking care of their brood until warmer weather returns.

Just a great reminder to all of us that every single jar of honey is the result of thousands of interactions with millions of bees and the result of careful handling.

1 bee contributes 1/10th of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime of about 6 weeks during the summer months.

04/07/2026

We had a batch of creamed honey that was just about perfect, couldn’t help but film a little bit of it for you!

THIS IS WHO YOU’RE ASKING TO MAKE YOUR LIFE SWEETER??? We love our team so you better be nice to them 💕
04/03/2026

THIS IS WHO YOU’RE ASKING TO MAKE YOUR LIFE SWEETER???

We love our team so you better be nice to them 💕

Just a little heads up for this upcoming week!
03/31/2026

Just a little heads up for this upcoming week!

TRACTOR REBUILD what started as some minor maintenance turned into a full scale rebuild. This guy is a huge part of day ...
03/31/2026

TRACTOR REBUILD

what started as some minor maintenance turned into a full scale rebuild. This guy is a huge part of day to day operations on the farm, and rebuilding it was a great learning opportunity for our co-op student.

Yes, we have a co-op student!! Would you be interested in hearing more about what that looks like here at NVA???

LET THE DANDELIONS GROW! Dandelions produce pollen which is the main protein source for bees, and they are often one of ...
03/27/2026

LET THE DANDELIONS GROW!

Dandelions produce pollen which is the main protein source for bees, and they are often one of the very first blooms of the season in our region. Once your other blooms start you can cut or pull your dandelions at will.

INCLUDE POLLINATOR PLANTS IN YOUR GARDEN

This includes many aesthetically pleasing options, and most seed catalogues now will even list these for you while you are browsing! Some you’ll see in abundance at the Honey House are Echinanea, Bee Balm and Black Eyed Susans! Perennials are the best option in our opinion.

PLANT IN CLUMPS

Bees are known to be excellent communicators, and will share good food sources with the rest of the hive. They don’t have the same type of vision as humans though! It is easiest for them to locate a large clump of similar plants, and then they will continue to return to it for months and even years to come!

AVOID PESTICIDES

This may seem obvious, but many nurseries will raise plants with insecticides and they will stay in the entirety of your plant and even leech into your soil and affect future plants. Be considerate with all your planting decisions.

WAIT TO MULCH

Although it is very appealing to have your garden mulched very early in the season, even after your first planting, this can be very damaging to native bumble bee population! Many of them hibernate and nest underground and mulch prevents this. Just like Dandelions, give yourself an extra month or so before mulching.

LEAVE YOUR LEAVES

This is for the very end of your season, insulating the ground is also very important for native bee species. If you leave your leaves and other fallen plants to protect the ground for bees and even your own perennials your garden will have a head start next spring. This is a natural cycle, lean into it!

10 years of growth and evolution. We had a guest come by the farm for some refills with one of (almost) every single lab...
03/17/2026

10 years of growth and evolution.

We had a guest come by the farm for some refills with one of (almost) every single label we have had in the last decade. He’s only missing the era where our white honey was named “Clover” before it became Summer Blossom.

We try to avoid waste as much as we can so we are only switching to the brand new labels as we run out of existing stock… so there is more to come 👀

The label with the flower was in use before Mike’s time and was replaced with the first appearance of our NVA bee(you can recognize her by her smile) in 2016/2017.

Next we carried the “Clover” label for a few years before switching to Summer Blossom(pictured) in 2021/2022.

And ten years later Erika designed this new label prominently featuring our bee and a sleeker design. What a decade it’s been.

Spring has sprung! One of the things you may have noticed when visiting our farm store is our beautiful chickens! While ...
03/13/2026

Spring has sprung!

One of the things you may have noticed when visiting our farm store is our beautiful chickens! While at times we have a surplus and are able to keep our store fridge stocked, sometimes the chickens are only producing enough for the boys growing tummies!

Regardless of the season or output, helping with chicken chores is one thing that the boys have helped with at every age. They are able to feed the chickens, gather eggs, sort and clean them before packaging them in our recycled egg cartons.

If you’re looking for some eggs so pretty you won’t even need to buy egg dye this year just give us a call for availability, happy to share the boys’ hardwork with you!

New product on the shelves! We officially have labels and barcodes for our golden honey… in a squeeze bottle! This has b...
03/11/2026

New product on the shelves! We officially have labels and barcodes for our golden honey… in a squeeze bottle! This has been one of our “secret menu items” here at the honey house for years now. Iykyk. But now that we are able to keep these beloved squeeze on our shleves (or yours) all year round!

You know the drill by now! Every winter Mike undertakes a renovation product to help get himself ready for this upcoming...
02/15/2026

You know the drill by now! Every winter Mike undertakes a renovation product to help get himself ready for this upcoming season. Ever since the big fire in 2023 where Mike lost his workshop and shop space he has been setting up (uninsulated) temporary work spaces. This year he decided to make some necessary modernizations to the OVER 100 year old barn on the property.

This barn has been a part of this property before even Christner Road was redirected. Due to decades of washout from the Nith River, Christner Road had to be moved, so did this old Barn… a few hundred feet across the property. In fact when they were considering renaming the road “Honey Road”, but unfortunately for us that didn’t stick.

It has spent the last few years as any good barn should, storing tractors, extra equipment, etc. but this year while undergoing our CFIA licensing many of its storage roles became obsolete, leaving lots of room for…. A quiet space to work. With insulation.

As many of his projects before he has utilized as much of the original building materials as possible and kept the building true to itself.

Cheers to finally having somewhere warm to work through the winter!

Love is in the air! Valentine’s Day doesn’t have to be about wasteful products, it’s an opportunity to be mindful as wel...
02/12/2026

Love is in the air!

Valentine’s Day doesn’t have to be about wasteful products, it’s an opportunity to be mindful as well. All of the offerings in our store are sourced as locally as possible and in most cases support women we personally know.

If you are curious about our products or their stories come in and ask! We are always happen to talk about the girls in our life (especially the ones in the hives!).

Address

1041 Christner Road
New Hamburg, ON
N3A3K7

Opening Hours

Tuesday 11am - 5am
Wednesday 9am - 5:30pm
Thursday 9am - 5:30pm
Friday 9am - 5:30pm
Saturday 9am - 12pm

Telephone

+15196623165

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