OUR HONEY BEES AND RELATED SERVICES

Eco Apiary. Com is a small, environmentally friendly, safe and sustainable beekeeping operation using ecologically safe modern beekeeping technologies to raise bees and produce natural raw honey and apiary-related products. Our bees are raised in the same way they used to be in the wilderness. The following  statements describe our method of raising bees and  harvesting honey and apiary products: 

• We raise our bees without feeding them with sugars or artificial sweeteners because we leave them enough of their naturally produced foods for winter and springtime without having them resort to unnatural foods.
  
  Some honey producers place bee feeders and fill them with artificial sugars or sugar syrups to maximize their profits. Following artificial feeding, bees consume sugar syrups and mix them with pollen, nectar and other components of natural honey. This practice results in an unnatural and artificial "honey," which has little or no value to bees and consumers. At the end of each season, these producers remove the rest of their "honey" from beehives and sell them. Following their final honey harvest, these producers fill feeders in their hives with sugar syrup, once again forcing bees to eat artificial sugars to ensure their survival. As bees end up deprived of their natural food, they are forced to eat artificially made foods. This results in weakening bees' immune systems generating a need to use antibiotics. If a human being is fed with artificial foods and antibiotics, his/her health will fail in a short period of time. The same concept applies to bees and those who consume altered or completely artificial "honey." Our readers and customers may have questions related to the authenticity of our honey and the honey they purchased from other honey suppliers. Please download our electronic brochure, which contains information on honey and how to distinguish natural honey from fake.
  
• Each year we only harvest our honey in the middle of August. This environmentally-friendly honey harvesting practice ensures a complete vitamin package in every drop of honey, as this was done throughout the centuries of honey harvesting in Europe. 

• Some honey producers harvest honey every few weeks beginning in the late spring until the end of summer. The vitamins and other helpful honey components in honey come from the plants that flourish in specific periods. This results in honey being produced with only certain vitamins and other useful components of honey that came in a specific period of time when honey was harvested. We wait until the middle of August to let the bees produce honey that contains a "complete vitamin package," which is useful for bees and human consumption. As mentioned above, we do not remove all of the honey from hives and feed bees with artificial sugar syrup because syrup does not have natural sugars. It is as useful to bees as soda drinks for humans.

• We build our own beehives, use environmentally safe materials for our hives, and generate zero production waste as we utilize wood and other materials to their full maximum potential. This way, we ensure the natural purity of our honey products.
  We do not use chemically based insulation materials in our beehives to ensure that chemicals do not travel inside beehives or end up on honey frames.
  
• We have developed new beehive concepts by combining natural traditional standards of beehive building & beekeeping with modern insulation & building standards of the construction industry and developed maintenance-free beehives, thus enabling them to remain in their place outside rather than having to move them inside and disturbing bees. This resulted in eliminating unnecessary labour costs and creating an environment for the spring hive rejuvenation, a critical spring seasonal process for each hive. 
  
• We use natural and chemical-free treatments against varroa mites that attack bees. Healthy bees mean strong bee colonies and the highest quality harvests.

• Due to the declining bee population, we believe that every bee colony swarm should be saved and protected to decrease the declining bee population. This is the reason why we offer honey bees extraction and bee swarm removal services.