Nadeau Farms

06/16/2025

Spent Saturday in Greenville being part of the NC Beekeepers Born and Bred teaching team. We presented a day long clinic on queen rearing with hands on demonstrations of grafting, mating NUCs, caging and marking queens as well as establishing and maintaining a cell builder. Full house of students and a great teaching team to be part of.

06/12/2025

SOLD OUT I have some melter honey or baking honey available. As mentioned before, this is a dark colored honey that comes from heating wax cappings. The honey and the wax separate in the process (there is no wax in this honey). This honey is no longer raw and has a caramelized taste. It is often used for baking (cookies, breads, granola bars), making BBQ sauces or making mead.

5lb tubs for $15 / 12lb gallon pail for $25 or 60lb bucket for $100. Limited supply.

05/25/2025

I have queens available on a weekly basis for the next few weeks. If you are in need of a queen, please contact me directly. Local pick up in Elizabeth City (no shipping). $40 each marked and mated.

05/15/2025

I will have some extra queens available next week. Pick up is Thursday 5/22. $40 marked and mated. Contact me directly for reservation. Had to change the pick up day due to bad weather - its now Thursday

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04/18/2025

NUCs are made up, cells went in and some queens have started to lay. Some of these should be ready for customers who pre-ordered next weekend. More to come in the next couple weeks. I still have some deep frame nucs available in the early part of May if someone is looking for bees.

03/21/2025

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-experts-massive-honeybee-colony-die.html

Cornell University bee experts are analyzing samples of bees and related material to help identify the cause of unprecedented managed honey bee losses this winter.

12/27/2024

Information on the upcoming Beekeeping 101 Course offered by the Beekeepers of the Albemarle.

Beekeeping 101 Course On behalf of the Beekeepers of the Albemarle: The annual Beekeeping 101 Course will be held on Saturday February 15 and Saturday February 22, 2025. This is a two day course which includes approximately 10 hours of classroom education, equipment demonstration and an optional api...

09/10/2024

Our next Summer Market is this Sunday, September 15th from 2 to 6PM! ☀️

We have a fantastic lineup of vendors for you including:
Functional Pottery by Stella Osborne
Silly Little Goose Designs
Cathy's Creations Embroidery
Salty Soul Creations
Nadeau Farms
The Savage Patch
Ceramics by Alicia Pomp
Barkuterie
Henderson’s Hot Sauce
Dog Barkery
Stella Nicole Ceramics
ReWild Collective

Mercy Creek Music will be providing the tunes from 2 to 5PM 🎶

Let's close out the Summer with a bang! 💥

08/24/2024

someone decided to build a nest in the hand-holes between two hives. Could have been quite a surprise had I not spotted these wasps before working the colonies.

08/12/2024

These pictures were taken a couple months ago during the peak of swarm season.

There is a lot of literature about hanging swarm traps 10-15 feet in a tree off the ground. For the past couple of years, I experimented by placing all my swarm traps without the use of a ladder. Depending on terrain, they were all generally between 4-8 feet off the ground.

The first picture is trap located on an abandoned forklift, about chest high. The second picture is a deep hive body with frames of drawn comb on the back of my truck. I have also had swarms occupy empty old honey supers stacked on a pallet.

I have found that a properly baited trap which offers the ideal cavity size will attract the scout bees and be just as effective regardless of height.

06/24/2024

After the honey harvest comes the processing of wax. That means that I have some more melter honey available (it was a hit last year). This honey has been heated and is no longer raw. This is not the preferred honey for a biscuit. Melter honey is often used for baking, making mead or making BBQ sauce, etc. It has a slight caramelized. $25 per gallon.

03/15/2024

The new help in action.