MacQuarrie Family Bees

12/06/2024

Hey - Come join us for "Winter at the Market" tonight! Another fun evening ahead with some wonderful local vendors! Whether you stop by to do some holiday shopping, enjoy some holiday treats, visit with Santa or come just to enjoy the LIVE music, the market is bustling and worth the visit tonight! The fun runs until 9:30pm!

11/29/2024

We're so excited to be participating in this exciting event at the St. Catharines Market for the next 3 Friday evenings! We'll have our fresh stock of gorgeous, golden, raw Niagara wildflower honey for sale as well as a fun "Queen Spotting" activity for the kids to enjoy when they visit! Come and ask us all your "honeybee questions" and enjoy this fun kickoff to the winter season!

09/28/2024

Our day is off to a great start! Come on down to the Beaverdams Church Apple Fest until 3:00 today. Apple pies, apples, butter tarts, and HONEY! 0 Marlatts Road, Thorold.

09/02/2024

🍯 Happy Honey Season! 🍯

Our family have been busy bees ourselves behind the scenes restocking our delicious raw, Niagara Wildflower Honey!

We have a limited supply ready to go now with more to follow in the coming weeks!

1kg jars of liquid golden - $20
500g jars of liquid golden - $12

Pick-up near downtown Thorold.
Text Ken @ 905.325.3649 or send us a direct message to arrange your order.

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06/19/2024

Join us tomorrow morning at 10AM EST as we partner with AgScape to share an exciting, LIVE Virtual Field Trip with students from across Ontario!

Educators, youth leaders, homeschoolers - register here to get a FREE downloadable activity kit along with the links to join: https://agscape.ca/virtual-field-trip-honeybees-at-the-hive.php

Friends, family and ANYONE else who wishes to join in, you can find us LIVE here tomorrow, or on AgScape's page or YouTube Channel. Just visit the page and click the link!

The replay will be available afterwards for anyone interested!

AND there is also a FRENCH language Bee Virtual Field Trip with another organization tomorrow at 2pm - details can be found here: https://agscape.ca/excursion-virtuelle-bravo-les-abeilles.php

05/25/2024

Here's a little stored sunshine from the last few weeks to brighten up your rainy day.

05/20/2024

Swarm season! Yesterday afternoon we got a call about a swarm in Thorold at St John's Anglican church. We put the queen and many of the bees into a box and then installed a lid with a one-way entrance. It's amazing to see that, as the remaining bees made their way inside, they seem to circle around on the cover in a clockwise direction.

04/23/2024

It's gonna be a bright, bright, sun-shiney day! At sunrise this morning, we introduced some of our colonies to a local farmer's canola field. I stuffed some grass in the entrance of each hive to slow their emergence and help them to orient to their new location. Enjoy your tasty snack, bees!

04/09/2024

So we know that you're all wondering ... what exactly did the bees do during today's solar eclipse?

Being in the path of totality meant we knew we absolutely MUST set up a camera just to see what would happen ...

The results were pretty interesting!!!

On April 8, 2024, our bee hives experienced the path of totality during the solar eclipse. This is a somewhat condensed video of their activity at the time....

12/16/2023

We have some exciting news for the holidays!

Our 500g Creamed Honey is now ready and we are also offering these adorable, handmade beeswax candles this year! The candles have dual wooden wicks to offer a light crackle sound and beautiful glow while they burn.

1kg Golden Honey - $20
500g Golden Honey - $12
500g Creamed Honey - $14
4oz Beeswax Candle - $12

Feel free to comment below, DM or text Ken at 905-325-3649 to place your orders!

09/18/2023

Thank you to all who came out to the Thorold Community Activities Group's Community Pop-Up Market Day! Our family loved meeting everyone and answering all of the great bee questions!

09/16/2023

Come and say hello at the Thorold Community Activities Group on Richmond Street in Thorold this afternoon! We will 🐝 there sharing about bees, honey and answering all your burning bee questions!

REMINDER! Our Produce Market is THIS Saturday at the TCAG! Visit between 2:30pm and 4:30pm for fresh produce (see list for available items), meet a beekeeper, and ask a dietician! Hope to see you there!

United Way Niagara

09/10/2023

It's finally ready!!! We are excited to share that our 2023 Raw Golden Honey is now available!

We have:

1kg Golden for $20
500g Golden for $12

We will soon have a limited supply of 500g Creamed Honey for $14 (We will post when that's ready!)

Pick-Up is in Thorold or downtown St. Catharines. Delivery may be an option depending on where in Niagara and our schedule. DM or comment below to place your order!

09/09/2023

Come grab some yummy fresh produce and bring the kiddos in your life to meet us to learn about 🐝🐝🐝!! It's going to be a fun day!

Join us on Saturday, September 16th from 2:30-4:30pm for our second Community Pop-Up Produce Market!

Free activities include Meet a Beekeeper and Ask a Dietician booth!

Produce baskets are $2 for small and $5 for large. We accept Stripe and Cash.

We hope to see you there!

09/04/2023

What a wonderful evening at for their Honey On-Farm dinner today! We enjoyed sharing all about honeybees with the crowd and then were treated to a delightful, honey-infused meal by Crieff's amazing Chef .foote.3954 ... the meal was almost exclusively made with foods foraged, grown, or raised right on-site. A truely farm-to-table experience and one that we were proud and grateful to be part of!