These Starter Kits come complete with everything needed to get started keeping bees.
Select the Add to Cart option below for the Kit, then if additional hives are needed, select the continue shopping link on the cart screen. Then return to this page and use the Add additional Hives with Bees option below and input the number of hives (with bees preinstalled) on the cart screen.
Complete Apiary Starter Kits come with the following:

• Standard: A Set of pure Italian Bees with Mated Queen, Complete Assembled Bee Hive (see below for details), Feeder, Hive Tool, Smoker, Bee Brush and a Seat in the Class - ($50 value)
• Optional:
  • Beekeeping Basics Group Class additional seats sold separately (order here - Beekeeping Class )
  • Personal Protective Gear sold separately due to personal preference variations - Veils & Suits and Gloves

Scroll down for kit details. Visit the Bee Pick Up Day FAQs page for hive sizes

Pick Up Date Options for Spring of 2025  
Click the date below to see additional dates

Assembled & Painted Hive with a Nuc of Italian Bees Installed
 - The Starter Kit Includes the following:
Protective Gear Pages - Click Here

Honey Maker Deluxe Starter Set
   1 Starter Kit, Hive w/Honey Super & Bees

• 1 - Seat in the Basic Beekeeping Class
   
• 1 - 5 Frame Nuc of Bees w/Queen installed*
• 1 - Telescoping Top Cover w/Inner Cover
• 1 - Medium 6⅝" Honey Super w/Frames
• 1 - Deep 9⅝" Hive Body w/Frames
• 1 - 1.5 Gallon Pro Feeder w/Cap & Ladder
• 1 - Screened Bottom Board w/Entrance Reducer
  • The Basic Tools
• 1 - 4" x 7" Smoker w/ Safety Guard
• 1 - Hive Tool

  Starter Set with tools
 

Total for 1 hive with bees, feeder, tools & class

for each additional hive with bees & feeder

Visit the Gloves & Veils, Suits & Jackets pages to add Personal Protective Gear

All starter kits will have a 5 frame nuc of Italian bees installed. The Italian bees are recommended for beginning beekeepers.

Contact Us for special orders or to make arrangements to lease bees.

Add additional Hives with Bees

Price is valid with the purchase of the above Starter Kit. Same as listed above, without tools or class. Please use the Add to Cart button to the left to add more hives for the same pickup date as the kit.

Note: You will have the option to add/increase the number of additional hives needed in the shopping cart window.

As above - Additional hives will have a nuc of Italian bees installed. These are recommended for beginning beekeepers.

* = These hives come with a 5 frame nucleus colony of bees installed into a Honey Super Deluxe hive set; including a young mated queen and 3 blank frames and a feeder.
Prices are per hive of bees and include the feeder, top, bottom and ratchet strap to hold things together for transport.
These will have the entrances closed the night before pick up and be ready to load in any vehicle and set out at your location and release.

Please visit the FAQs page for general information about picking up and transporting bees