New Zealand's honeybees can no longer survive without human help and we really need bees! Did you know that a staggering 52 percent of our supermarket produce is completely reliant on a bee at some point in its creation? If we feed the bees, the bees feed us!
Here are ways you can bee involved with the Beeple Honey Collective – caring for our bees and feeding our community's hungriest tums at the same time.
Interested? Fill in the form at the bottom of the page to let us know how you'd like to bee a Beeple.
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Option 1 - Hive hosting and honey harvest
Host a fully serviced Beeple hive in your own garden (or our community apiary) and you can spend this summer watching your bee-autiful busy bees pollinate your neighbourhood.
Come harvest time, you'll keep 10kg of your very own honey to share with whānau, 'āiga, family and friends, as well as providing yummy honey to local low decile schools.
$480 annually (or 12 x $43.75 instalments)
One fully serviced hive in your backyard or our community apiary
Up to 10kg honey (seasonally dependant)
1kg of honey gifted to low decile schools
Surplus honey to Beeple Honey Collective with profits returned to local food programmes
A minimum of 12 (monthly) hive inspections
Disease inspection
Hive registration
Emergency response
Option 2 – Pollination power
Not sure what to do with 10kg of honey but still want to host a fully serviced Beeple hive and watch your neighbourhood plant life thrive?
The pollination power package is the perfect way to support bees and give back to the community, plus your gardening neighbours will love you!
$380 annually (or 12 x $35.40 instalments – cost currently under review)
One fully serviced hive in your backyard or in our community apiary
No honey
1kg of honey gifted to an organisation of your choice (at our discretion)
Surplus honey to Beeple Honey Collective with profits returned to local food programmes
A minimum of 12 (monthly) hive inspections
Disease inspection
Hive registration
Emergency response
Option 3 – Bee business
Bee inspired by the best team on earth!
Beeple offers this package for businesses and other organisations to learn from the ultimate pros at teamwork – bees. Host a hive in our community apiary and receive two Together Days tailored to suit your team.
$480 + GST annually (no installment option)
One fully serviced hive in our community apiary
One Together (Team) Day of your choice
No honey
1kg of honey gifted to low decile schools
Surplus honey to Beeple Honey Collective with profits returned to local food programmes
A minimum of 12 (monthly) hive inspections
Disease inspection
Hive registration
Emergency response
Option 4 – Land love
You've got land you love and want to join the fun? You've come to the right place.
We are looking for landowners who want to help bees and the local community by hosting fully serviced Beeple hives on their properties – for the love of bees!
NO COST
Multiple (minimum of four) fully serviced hives
No honey
1kg of honey from each hive gifted to your chosen organisation (at our discretion)
Surplus honey to Beeple Honey Collective with profits returned to local food programmes
A minimum of 12 (monthly) hive inspections
Disease inspection
Hive registration
Emergency response
Option 5 – What's your buzz?
If your head is a-buzz with ideas you'd like to share, we would love to hear from you!
We believe that ways to combine community goodness with sustainable beekeeping are probably unlimited. Just tell us what's in your noggin in the comments section.
And if you want to buy our yummy honey come harvest time, tell us and we'll get in touch when our girls have worked their magic.