The Honey Company

04/01/2026

03/24/2026

Package pickup day April 4, 2026 from 9-Noon in Provo, UT.
Pre-order today on our website thehoneycompany.com.

NOTE: If you ordered nucs, the pickups will be later in May/June.

03/23/2026

Cleaning up dead hives.

This time of year, beekeepers check their bees and see which colonies died and which ones survived. Sadly, some colonies die over the winter.

This post tells about what to do to clean up the equipment from dead hives to get it ready for a new colony to move in.

We are selling packages and nucleus colonies on our website, thehoneycompany.com. The package pickup will be April 4 from 9-12 in Provo, UT. See site for details.

02/16/2026

Beekeepers! Selling honey bees, packages, nucs, queens, beekeeping veils, and online courses

Preorder on our website, https://thehoneycompany.com/ or call us at 801-735-7227.

**PACKAGES**
2-pound package $140
3-pound package $170
Package pickup will be on a specific Saturday in mid-April (probably April 12) in Provo, UT. Packages come with a queen. Queens will be a hybrid of Carniolan and Italian.

**NUCLEUS COLONIES $175**
Nucleus colonies come on 5 deep frames. Pickups are the evenings of May 16 and 30 in Utah County and June 6 in Spring City, UT. Queens will be a hybrid of Carniolan and Italian.

**QUEEN $40**
Choose between California queens at the package pickup in April, or Feral queens at nuc pickups in May and throughout the summer.

**BEE VEILS $65**
Locally-made beekeeping veil. All veils include a drawstring at the base of the veil. Wear with your own clothing in the summer heat.

**ONLINE COURSES**
First Course "My First Colony" is FREE.
Course Titles: My First Colony, Beginning Beekeeping Skills, How is My Queen?, Are My Bees Healthy?, and Queen Rearing.
When you sign up for any online course, you will also get 52 emails with weekly information with what you need to know about beekeeping that week.
All six courses bundled together for $300 (a $600 value)

**NEW BEEKEEPING BOOK "Let's Go Beekeeping" $38**
New 2025! Get your copy to improve your beekeeping skills. Based on questions and answers from thousands of new beekeepers. Includes an expanded queen-rearing section.

**YOUTUBE**
Find hundreds of beekeeping tutorial videos on YouTube .

02/08/2026

It’s time to feed your bees.

When pollen is coming in and temps are warming up, bees start to rear brood. The worker bees need both pollen (protein) and carbs (honey or sugar) to mix the “baby formula” during the larvae stage of development.

Unusually warm temperatures this year (in our area in Utah) mean bees are more active, and have been consuming more honey than usual. Check the weight of the hive. If it is light, inspect them on a warm day and give them a frame of honey or a feeder full of sugar syrup (loosely 1-2 parts honey to 1 part warm water, just mix as much sugar as you can into the water, it doesn’t have to be exact).

02/07/2026

Honey bee colony 2026 update

02/02/2026

Levare Studios Illusion Team at the Masquerade ball on Saturday.

Do you think we need to do this again next year? It was so fun!!