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Beaver Creek Honey

We strive to create high-quality raw honey, eco-friendly, hand made beeswax products

08/04/2023

Honey harvest 2023 is underway. This honey is light and has fruity tones. So good! Can't wait to share it with you! www.beavercreekhoney.ca

06/30/2023

Introducing our latest creation: the ultimate solution for safely transporting queen cells to the field! 🐝👑
🌡️ Optimal Temperature Control: Our brand-new portable and durable 150-cell queen cell carrier is designed to maintain a constant temperature of 34.5 degrees Celsius. With its digital temperature control system, you can ensure a safe environment for successful queen cell transport.
🔌 Powered for Success: Equipped with a 12-volt 40W heating system, our queen cell carrier guarantees a reliable and consistent temperature throughout the transporting process.
☀️ Handle with Care: It's important to note that our carrier should never be left in a hot place, such as a truck or direct sunlight. To ensure the best results, always keep it in a cool and shaded area to maintain the desired temperature.
🧩 Removable Inserts for Easy Handling: Our incubator features three convenient, removable inserts made of XPE closed cell foam. Each insert holds 50 cells, allowing you to handle and remove queen cells with ease.
💪 🛡️ Rugged Case: We understand the demands of the field, which is why we've designed our carrier with a rugged case. It can withstand rough handling, ensuring the safety of your queen cells during transport and fieldwork.
🐝 Order yours today!
🌐 Visit our website www.beavercreekhoney.ca to learn more about the Queen Cell carrier and explore our products.

06/25/2023

The air smells so sweet right now around the apiary thanks to the clover that grows each year. The edges of the back roads and highways are in full bloom and hold the nectar and pollen that our bees are after. 🐝 🐝

05/28/2023

Watering the bees is easy! We have you covered with our Bee Retreats or make one of your own! Any craft store will sell bags of multi-colored pebbles. Get a bag or two and pour them into a wide, shallow container. It should be large enough to hold a few ounces of water, but not so big that bees will drown. This can be a large dish from your kitchen or even just a frisbee!
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05/26/2023

Worker bees are all female and have a very short lifespan (only roughly 30 days!), in her short life a worker bee will take on all of these different roles: housekeeper, nurse, attendant to the queen, architect, ventilator, guard and, finally, forager. Yep! They do it all. 🐝 🐝

05/20/2023

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05/01/2023

No Mow May helps pollinators by allowing early season flowers to grow in our lawns, parks and greenspaces. This means more bees will have a chance to fuel up on nectar in the spring and take shelter in the shady grass without mower blades chopping up their food and habitat. We encourage you to join this effort! 🐝 🐝

02/07/2023

Don't eat yellow snow! What's going on here? The bees fly out of the hive, even when there is still snow on the ground, to take 'cleansing flights' to P**P! They won't go inside the hive and will wait for warm sunny days like we're expecting this week. 🐝 🐝

11/25/2022

Here is the first of a series of holiday recipe ideas using our own smoked honey, although you could use raw honey too! This prosciutto wrapped baked brie drizzled with our smoked honey will become your favorite holiday appetizer. Bring this to a holiday party and you will be remembered for this dish. Truly delicious...and we're not just saying that! Link to recipe in bio!

11/08/2022

Save or screenshot for future reference! Honey is nature's all-natural sugar substitute. Use this handy guide as an easy way to replace processed sugar with honey.

11/07/2022

Definitely a stay in and make mead kind of day. It's easy with our Mead Making Kits. Makes a unique gift as well! (Carboy not included) 🐝 🐝

11/06/2022

Not only will you enjoy the soothing properties of the raw honey, but also extra vitamin C in the lemon! Ginger and it's wonderful properties round out this must have drink for when you are under the weather.

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10/16/2022

We love our new mugs drawn by our GREAT nephew!

10/09/2022

This picture was in our inbox this week. Someone found this in their shed and asked us for help. When a swarm can't find suitable space, they will form an open air hive like this one. But don't worry, we made sure it found a home! 🐝 🐝

09/19/2022

This cooler weather and amazing goodies from the garden have us wanting to roast things! These Honey Roasted vegetables did the trick. We use our signature Smoked Honey to add extra flavour.
Link to recipe below! https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/vegetables-recipes/amazing-roast-veg/

08/27/2022

As the honey season winds down we remember that a worker bee like this one gathers in her ENTIRE LIFE, 0.8 grams (0.0288 ounces) of honey. It requires 556 worker bees to gather a pound of honey. Bees fly more than once around the world to gather a pound of honey. The average life of a honey bee during the working season is about six weeks. Are we amazed? YES! Are we grateful? YES! The best way to help these bees and native species is to plant native plants. The Alberta Native Plant Council (ANPC) has a downloadable list of province-wide suppliers of native plants and seeds. You can find the Native Plant Source List on their website. https://anpc.ab.ca/ It's never too late to start planning next year's garden!!!

08/18/2022

Another year of extracting almost done. What a year! Winter losses had us working hard to build back the health and strength of our bees. The battle with controlling Varroa mites continues. These little creatures continue to amaze us with their resiliency and perseverance. We are privileged to be their 'keepers'.

08/12/2022

Just something about this view...

08/12/2022

Super excited for this collaboration with OEB Breakfast Co. Details coming soon!

07/14/2022

Nectar is flowing!

07/07/2022

Sweet, smoky, salty and tart. This grilled chicken has it all. Chicken is marinated with our amazing Smoked Honey, Chipotle sauce with apple cider vinegar and soy sauce before being skewered and grilled. Find the recipe in the blog on our website www.beavercreekhoney.ca

06/29/2022

🐝 GIVEAWAY 🐝

Calling all honey lovers!!! Our friends at The Fort Distillery have helped us create a lovely care package to give away to one lucky winner! They threw in one of each of their honey-containing spirits along with a sampling of some of our products!

The gift package includes:

• One jar of raw honey and one jar of smoked honey.
• One pack of sustainable beeswax fire starters.
• Three beeswax lip balms.
• Two tubes of bath salts.
• A bee mug.
• One healing salve.

Plus bottles of Canadian Boreal Gin and newly released Queen Bee’s Tea, and one bottle of Tumbler & Rocks’ Shaft cocktail!

To enter:

• Make sure you’re following The Fort Distillery, Beaver Creek Honey, and Tumbler & Rocks.
• Share this post to your story (account must be public for us to see that you’ve shared).
• Tag a friend you would share this gift basket with!

Draw closes July 15.

**Must be 18 or older to enter and living in the greater Edmonton area.**

05/20/2022

We are so amazed by and grateful for these insects. Celebrate International Bee Day with us! You can do these things to help the bees and other pollinators in your community.
1. Plant flowers and shrubs/trees that produce pollen and nectar.
2. Avoid using pesticides, herbicides and fungicides in your garden.
3. Add a watering station to your landscaping. Always add rocks that ensure the bees and butterflies have a safe place to drink from.
4. Buy local! Especially buy your honey from a local beekeeper.
5. Learn more about food production and the importance of bees. https://www.planetbee.org/why-we-need-bees

05/16/2022

We have some really tough queens coming out of winter who are producing brood patterns that are amazing. Boxes full of bees and brood getting ready to hatch makes splitting easier. Our new queens will have strong hives to be welcomed into. On another note, we found all of the missing hive tools! Where is the strangest place you've found a lost hive tool?

05/15/2022

Splitting hives in the spring requires searching for the queen and very precise work. No gloves required!

05/12/2022

Here's our wish for all beekeepers this season...A great beekeeping season with perfect weather, just the right amount of rain and no other unforeseen setbacks! Like many other beekeepers this year we saw some losses. If all goes well we will bounce back quickly.

05/06/2022

We have Mother's Day covered! Honey, bee watering stations, fire starters, lip balms, flower bombs and gift boxes! Message us or visit our website www.beavercreekhoney.ca

04/27/2022

We are so excited to share this with you! This year we entered our Smoked Honey in the Made in Alberta Awards! It is a finalist in the "Sweet Food" category alongside many other amazing products handcrafted right here in Alberta. We need your help! You can vote for us through the link in our instagram bio and share with others or on the website link.

https://www.madeinalbertaawards.ca/readers-choice/?filter_year-of-product=2022

We are immensely grateful to all of you!

04/22/2022

A lot of great ideas here to try to live in a more 'green' way. How many squares can you check off this year? We have a few that we are definitely adding to our list for next year. Why not pledge to do more next year on this Earth Day! The earth and the bees will thank you!

04/18/2022

Did you know that Monique hosts paint nights? She has painted with hundreds of people and is offering these new projects through TMK Sherwood Park . Message us to find out more

04/03/2022

Spring things! Eco-friendly fire starters, flower bomb kits and our Bee Retreat to set out for all of the pollinators in your neighborhood! Starting to feel like spring may actually be here! www.beavercreekhoney.ca

03/28/2022

Don't be alarmed if you see bees at your bird feeders in early spring like these bees were! They're foraging for cracked corn dust, which resemble pollen grains and contains trace amounts of corn pollen.

As the weather continues to warm up and as their pollen sources start to become readily available, they will be back to foraging on the good stuff!

03/26/2022

New labels are here! Loving these for our lip balms. Each one is hand poured and uses our very own beeswax. www.beavercreekhoney.ca

03/20/2022

Labeling and packaging our flower bombs get us excited for Spring! We are definitely thinking about the wonderful work that we have ahead with our bees. The flower bomb kits are fun for the whole family to make. We source our wildflower seeds from the wonderful .

02/19/2022

Elevate your Saturday night and treat yourself! Our Smoked Honey is the perfect complement to charcuterie feasts and cocktails.

02/14/2022

The stars of the show!
Smoked Honey- we cold smoke this honey in small batches to get it smoked to perfection in our special way. This honey is perfect on grilled meat and veggies, as a base for a marinade, sauce, or vinaigrette. Once you add it to your charcuterie board you will never be able to be without it!
Iced Honey- This honey is transformed by extreme cold and we put it through a creaming process in that state. The result is a silky smooth spreadable honey. Perfect for spreading on things, like toast!
Raw Honey- Our raw honey is as natural as can be. Right from our hives, filtered and bottled by us.

www.beavercreekhoney.ca

02/08/2022

So many ways to use our Smoked Honey! Have YOU tried it yet?

02/06/2022

Do you love someone who loves bees, pollinators, and caring for their environment? Check out our products! All handcrafted and eco-friendly. Mostly made with the things we harvest and forage ourselves. We love finding these heart shapes in the hives. ❤️ link in bio -friendly

01/27/2022

We think it's a perfect match!
We are so excited to announce that many of our products will be available in the gift shops at the Muttart Conservatory and the John Janzen Nature Centre!

01/22/2022

Busy day pouring wax bars. There are so may ways to use it! Balms, lotions, candles are just a few. We are proud use our wax in many of our products. The smell is amazing!

Address

Sherwood Park, AB
T8A5K7

Telephone

+17807224232

Website

www.beavercreekhoney.ca

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