Swarm & Tender

For All Your Honey Bee Needs

Classes, Workshops Installations and Honey for Sale

We Sell Honey! & Offer a range of bee related classes & workshops for all ages. Ask us!

Swarm Removals (we love these)

See a cluster of bees? Give us a call and we will come safely relocate those lovely ladies to live a happy life.

Cutouts (aka Live Removals)

Bees in your wall, roof, deck, BBQ? no problem, we will safely remove them and transport them to an apiary.

Who We Are

We bee-lieve in Honeybees.

They hold a central role in our deeply interconnected natural world and they need our support.

In order to help save bees in their time of need, we are raising awareness to inspire the action needed to give them a chance to restore balance in our shared world. Through education, habitat restoration, and earth stewardship, we work to remind others of the responsibility, playfulness and awe that the friendly honey bees hold.

By working together, we all create the change we wish to see.

-Spencer & Mariah

Swarm & Tender

🐝Why do honey Bees need help?🐝

They are dying at alarming rates. In 2006 the term “colony collapse” was coined due to the massive die-out of honey bees (Apis mellifera) and no one knew why. Since that time there has been much research and conservation efforts to understand and help our number one food pollinators.

The cause is still unclear although there are many theories.

Some of the more supported ideas are:

• Pesticides used in agriculture

• Urban sprawl (There are not enough flowers to feed the girls. They have to fly too far to get food and can’t make it back)

• Selective breeding a.k.a Inbreeding for specific genetic traits (docile, good honey producers aren’t necessarily good at defeating pest invaders

• Medicating bees against pests…. the pests (varroa mites) are getting stronger and the bees weaker.

How can you help?

-Plant flowering plants, bushes and trees!

Honey bees are pollinators that require the nectar from plants to create the honey they eat to survive, in turn they pollinate over 30% of the food we consume in the United States. That said, they need flowering plants to survive. Ideally plants that flower at different times of year so they have a sustained food source. If you have a yard, a garden, a bit of earth, like to seed bomb the vacant plot next to where you live, or have a landscaping company that helps maintain your estate, you can help with the resource of FLOWERS! That’s a pretty sweet way to help if you ask us. Sustain life by surrounding yourself with beauty.

-Eat Raw Local Honey!

Everyone wins here. Wherever you live, find a local beekeeper online or at your farmer’s market and buy their honey. Not only is it delicious but it is suuuuuper good for you!

-Start Keeping Bees

It’s truly amazing! Do you have a property or a yard? Then you too can begin keeping bees!  We sell bees, offer installations, teach new-bees the ropes, and more. Contact us for more info!

-Teach the Children (And the Adults)

We offer classes and are developing literature that will be available on this site soon. In the interim there are many fun and informative videos, printouts, songs and games available to you and your little friends of all ages.

-Donate

This really helps. Find a local beekeeper, organization, bees-ness, research center, or whatever you resonate with. The more financial resources beekeepers and researchers have the more we are able to help save the bees.

Swarm and Tender also accepts donations and commit to using 100% the funds to directly help our foraging friends and budding business!