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Four Bees Apiary We have been keeping bees since 2018. We are the 4 Bennett's- Matt, Karol and our two kids

How high will the honey supers go this year. Already at 4 on our Hive “O”! Matt will have to use a ladder after the nex...
06/15/2025

How high will the honey supers go this year. Already at 4 on our Hive “O”! Matt will have to use a ladder after the next one 😳

The apiary took a hit this winter. Lost 50% of the hives. But what we have are slowly making a come back. Starting to se...
06/15/2025

The apiary took a hit this winter. Lost 50% of the hives. But what we have are slowly making a come back. Starting to see some honey stores!

Our fruit trees have been blooming the last few days and the bees are over them. Let’s pray the cold and severe storms s...
03/28/2025

Our fruit trees have been blooming the last few days and the bees are over them. Let’s pray the cold and severe storms stay away this weekend!!

Honey has been restocked in our booth at the Painted Tree in Ballwin! Or contact us if you are in the area. We have a l...
02/13/2025

Honey has been restocked in our booth at the Painted Tree in Ballwin! Or contact us if you are in the area. We have a little left from our 2024 season!

Working on getting unburied today! I think we got close to 6 inches yesterday! Once we had the drive plowed, we cleare...
01/11/2025

Working on getting unburied today! I think we got close to 6 inches yesterday! Once we had the drive plowed, we cleared the snow and ice from the hive entrances and off the tops. Crazy snow drifts. These hive stands are at least 12 inches off the ground!

Ducks are always enjoying their spread 😂

For those who cannot make it out to us, we are please to announce we have a supply at Mushroom Dave’s Place in Pacific. ...
09/19/2024

For those who cannot make it out to us, we are please to announce we have a supply at Mushroom Dave’s Place in Pacific. Not only does he have a daily selection of mushrooms, there are seasonal local produce, meats and dairy items for next culinary creation!

Hive inspections and pre-winter prep this weekend. We started marking our queens this year for ease of finding them wit...
09/02/2024

Hive inspections and pre-winter prep this weekend. We started marking our queens this year for ease of finding them with inspections. We still had a couple to mark and I think we got them all.

For those who know the yearly colors- yes I know this year is green- the queen we released in the video is last year’s queen. (Red) She’s been evasive all summer since we started marking.😃

We also can report a successful merging of two colonies that were on their way to “extinction”
Hive 1 struggled all summer to have a mated queen return( had lots of sign with queen cells and even saw a virgin at one point) This hive also had tons of stored resources. Hive 2 same thing, but finally had a mated queen return and start laying, but not enough workers to help collect resources. On inspection in mid August, there were sign of her laying, but couldn’t find her after two passes through the hive. We also suspected cannibalism happening as well. Disappointed, we closed up the hive and Matt planned to disassemble both hives later in the week.

One day before leaving to take our daughter to college, I was at work and Matt started working on cleaning and disassembling hive2. He found the queen! He decided to try the newspaper merge method we heard about from other beekeepers. I got home later that evening and as we were talking about it, I asked if he put slits in the paper. Of course he didn’t (because he didn’t hear that part of the conversation at our beekeeper meeting. 😂 it’s a good thing we both attend). The next morning before leaving on our 8hr trip to Wisconsin, he goes out and puts slits in the paper.

Today we got into this hive and as you can see in the last 3 pictures the queen (green dot) was accepted and is laying like a champ!! All these frames two weeks ago were completely empty or full of honey/pollen.

We are bottling this year’s Liquid Gold! Message us with what and how many you would like. Dark or light available ( Li...
08/03/2024

We are bottling this year’s Liquid Gold! Message us with what and how many you would like.

Dark or light available ( Light only available in prefilled 8oz or 16oz containers- limited supply)

8oz plastic squeeze bottle $6
16oz plastic squeeze bottle $12
16oz glass jar. $14

Bring your own bottle/mason jar to be filled $10/pound

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846 Highway AT
Villa Ridge, MO
63089

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