Bees & Honey

French Hill Apiaries offer queen bees, nucleus honey bee colonies, and honey to our customers. Please contact us for more information

Queens

In my queen breeding program, quality - not quantity - is the focus. We raise some twelve hundred queens each summer, half for use by French Hill Apiaries and half available for sale to other beekeepers. I can ship queens across North America, to both the United States and Canada.

NOTE: Queens are sold out for 2021.

Nucleus Colonies

French Hill Apiaries offers superior quality overwintered nucleus colonies each spring.

These colonies are made the previous summer, built up as a cohesive unit and wintered that way. We do not take our bees out of state to warmer climates. These bees are tested by Vermont’s long months of deep cold, snow and ice. If our bees come out healthy and strong in the spring, we know they’re good enough to sell to our customers.

NOTE: Nucs are sold out for 2021.

Honey

French Hill offers honey wholesale. The 2020 honey crop is excellent. This delicious blend of sumac, brambles, basswood, and clover has a mild flavor with no bite at the finish. The last three seasons have yielded some of the best honeys we’ve made in years.

Contact Mike to discuss prices.