Hungry Bear Farms

Welcome to Hungry Bear Farms!

We are located in beautiful Canandaigua, NY and have our own Beekeeping Supply Store where we offer a variety of beekeeping supplies for all your apiary needs. We also sell our Raw Honey at our Store as well as Fresh Eggs and Maple Syrup. Please visit the various pages of our website to learn more. If you would like to purchase any of these products stop in today to see us or you can go to our Contact Us page and send in an order to us. We believe in buying locally and supporting our small businesses in the area. Thanks to all who have supported us in our endeavor. We look forward to many more years to come.

Bee Happy, Bee Healthy, Buy Local!

*If you'd like to come on a day that we are not open or after our normal business hours, please contact us ahead of time and we may be able to arrange our schedule. Thank you. 585-412-8745- This # will ring both Ben and Kimberly.

*Upcoming Beginner Beekeeping Classes*

Beekeeping 101- A Complete Guide to Starting Out in Beekeeping

Location- Holiday Inn Express, Banquet Room, 330 Eastern Blvd, Canandaigua, NY 14424

Dates: Saturday, March 15th & Saturday, April 5th, 2014 (Both are the same class, choose one date)

Time: 10am to 5pm.   Course materials and lunch provided.

Cost: $40/Adult, $70/Couple.  Classes limited to 30 people. Must Pre-Register for classes. Payments are non-refundable.

See our Beginner Beekeeping Classes page for more info and to register.

Honey Bee Swarms	Jams & Jellies	Our Pure Raw Honey
Beekeeping Supplies Specials & What's New	Maple Syrup	Farm Fresh Eggs

Now taking orders for Spring 2014 Nucs and 3lb Packages!

Spring '14 Nucs will be 5 frames in a cardboard nuc box which you keep; 1st year layingQueens from Minnesota Hygenic and Survivor Stock. Nucs will be $140 each. Nucs will be ready late April/ early May. Pick up will be at our farm in Middlesex, NY. Please see our Nucs page for more details!

Also selling 3lb packages of both Russian and Italian Bees. Queens will be marked. Packages are $130 each. Please send us an email or give us a call and specify which type you would like to purchase, Russian or Italian. Pick up will be at our farm the week of May 5th. Your name will go on our list once we've received payment. Please see our Packaged Bees page for more details!

Ontario Finger Lakes Beekeeper's Association- Monthly Meetings

Our monthly meetings are open to the public and are free to attend. We often have guest speakers at our meetings that cover a wide range of topics. They are held at 7pm the second Monday of every month at the Canandaigua VA Medical Center, Building 5 Auditorium, 400 Fort Hill Avenue Canandaigua, NY 14424. Club officers meet prior to the meeting to review club business, this is open to the general membership. All presenters and announcements must meet with club officers 15 minutes prior to the start of the meeting to review their message and approve it.

**NO REGULAR MARCH MEETING DUE TO GENEVA BEE CONFERENCE**

The 2014 Geneva Bee Conference- is a joint venture of the Ontario-Finger Lakes Beekeepers Association and the Finger Lakes Beekeepers Club. Click here for the Geneva Bee Conference website. http://www.genevabeeconference.org/

• Date: 3/22/14 Time: 9am-5pm
• Place: Hobart & William Smith College, Geneva, NY.
• In the Vandervort Room in Scandling Campus, 300 Pulteney Street, Geneva, NY 14456
• This year's speakers-
• Dr. Dick Rogers, Entomologist/Manager Bayer Bee Care Center, Bayer Crop Science, North Carolina;
• Katie Lee - Midwest Tech-Transfer Team Leader / Bee Informed Partnership;
• Chris Harp - HoneybeeLives.org, Bee Doctor.

*Check us out at our vendor booth this year. If you're coming from far away we can bring your orders to the meeting if you call us ahead of time.

Beekeeping Club Services & Bulk Orders

For any Beekeeping Clubs that will have beginner orders to place for 2014, we would be happy to take orders and make arrangements to travel to your Club to deliver your new & existing members orders for free. If you are several hours away we would be happy to coordinate orders & delivery if there were enough orders to warrant the travel distance.

We are matching the 2013 printed Brushy Mt Catalog prices for all regular beekeeping supplies for the 2013 / 2014 calender year until the 2014 catalogs are available. Once 2014 catalogs are available we will be matching those printed prices. Some exceptions may apply with the Candle, Soap, Wine Making and some Gift items & Glass Wear.  We do charge NYS Sales Tax unless a Tax Exempt Form is provided. Please visit our Contact Us Page for more information if you are interested in utilizing this service.

All inquiries welcome. Thank you.

Thanks for visiting! Have a honey of a day!

Hungry Bear Farms. 699 South Main Street. Canandaigua, NY 14424

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