Turn your backyard into a working apiary!

We’ll assess your property, install 2–6 honeybee hives in a suitable location, and manage every aspect of the colony from season to season. That means routine inspections, health monitoring, honey harvest, and winter preparation. You won’t need any beekeeping experience or equipment. Your only job is to enjoy the results.

In return for hosting, you’ll receive complimentary jars of honey harvested directly from your own backyard — honey that reflects the flowers your bees foraged from your neighborhood. You’ll also notice the difference in your garden. A healthy colony of foraging honeybees is one of the most effective things you can do for fruit, vegetable, and flower production.

We serve the greater Philadelphia metropolitan area and conduct a free site visit so there’s no commitment until we’ve both determined your property is a good fit.

What’s included:

• Free site assessment

• Hive installation and all equipment

• Year-round maintenance and inspections

• Honey harvest and delivery

Annual Fee $600

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Learning beekeeping from a book or a single workshop only gets you so far. Bees are seasonal, and real competency comes from working hives through a full year — watching colonies build in spring, managing the honey flow in summer, preparing for winter in fall, and understanding what healthy bees look like in the cold of February.

The Backyard Beekeepers apprenticeship is a hands-on, year-round program structured around the natural beekeeping calendar. You’ll work live hives alongside a Master Beekeeper, building practical skills month by month as conditions in the hive actually change.

What to know before enrolling:

• No prior experience required

• Sessions take place at your home apiary

• Participants must provide their own jacket or bee suit, hive tool, and smoker

• Program starts each year in April, weather permitting

• Getting stung is part of beekeeping — if that’s not a risk you can take, this program may not be the right fit

1 Year Program Fee $990

Additional charges for bees and equipment if needed

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If honeybees have appeared on your property — clustered on a branch, gathered on a fence post, or beginning to settle somewhere they shouldn’t — call us before you call an exterminator.

A swarm is a colony of bees in transit looking for a new home. They are typically docile and non-aggressive in this state, but they need to be relocated promptly before they establish themselves inside a wall, eave, or structure where removal becomes far more complicated and costly.

We respond quickly, safely remove the swarm, and relocate the colony to a proper home where they can thrive. It’s better for you, better for your property, and better for the bees.

If you see a swarm: keep people and pets at a safe distance and call us right away at (484) 243-0333. Do not spray them with water or pesticides — this agitates the colony and complicates removal.

Free of charge in most cases

Additional charges if bees are inside of a structure and require a cutout.

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