Beehive & Beekeeper Rentals MN - Ames Farm Single Source Honey
Beehive & Beekeeper Rentals MN - Ames Farm Single Source Honey
Ames Farm

Bee Hive & Beekeeper Rentals MN

Payment
$1,275.00

 

Beekeeping is a rewarding and fun way to interact with the environment and involve your family and community. The logistics and acquired skills to keep bees alive are not simple. Having a place to safely store equipment and the time to maintain hives year-round is a daunting responsibility. While every beekeeper undoubtedly has good intentions, many novice beekeepers lose their bees over winter. 

That's where our bee hive rental and beekeeper rentals may make sense for some people. Rent a bee hive from us and let our 30 years of beekeeping experience do the work for you at your home, garden or hobby farm setting. 

Rental Service Includes:

  • We supply and maintain any number of healthy hives of honeybees. This includes one each deep and medium of brood and bees and any medium honey supers they fill. Should the queen fail or swarm we will replace her with a new queen. 

  • The typical bee hive rental season is May until mid September when the hives are moved to our farm and eventually Texas for winter.

  • Our experienced beekeepers will service the hives and harvest the honey crop in late summer. 

  • As a honey crop is made, typically varying from 40-100 plus pounds each season per hive, we will harvest and bottle the honey for you up to 60 pounds.

  • Additional surcharges may apply for bottling larger harvests above that amount per hive. Custom packaging is also available! This would include jar type and labeling of your bottled honey crop—inquire with us for prices. 

You provide:

  • A location for the hives approved by Ames Farm (our service extends to locations within a 20 mile radius around the Watertown or Delano area in Minnesota).

  • Permit if required by a local government 

 

Call or email us to discuss your specific needs M-F (952) 955-3348 or use our contact form.

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Charles K
Amazing education and delicious honey

We have two young children and wanted them to have some hands-on experience with bees. When they checked in on the hive, the Ames team provided expert beekeeping lessons. Each time they came, they explained all the steps they were taking and the children helped with the work (in a child bee suit of course). With just one hive we got over 100 lbs of honey! The honey was so unique and local. All our friends and neighbors were clamoring for more! We have two dogs and our children play with their friends in our yard so we were concerned about having a hive but the bees left the kids and dogs completely alone. The rental program teaches my children about the environment and ecology in an exciting way with a delicious treat as a reward. It really is something special. Thank you Ames!

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Charles K
Amazing education and delicious honey

We have two young children and wanted them to have some hands-on experience with bees. When they checked in on the hive, the Ames team provided expert beekeeping lessons. Each time they came, they explained all the steps they were taking and the children helped with the work (in a child bee suit of course). With just one hive we got over 100 lbs of honey! The honey was so unique and local. All our friends and neighbors were clamoring for more! We have two dogs and our children play with their friends in our yard so we were concerned about having a hive but the bees left the kids and dogs completely alone. The rental program teaches my children about the environment and ecology in an exciting way with a delicious treat as a reward. It really is something special. Thank you Ames!

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Erica Kuser
Beekeeper Rentals

I loved this beekeeping rental service! I love the idea of beekeeping but am not ready to take on the challenge, education of beekeeping and maintaining a healthy hive. The rent a hive and beekeeper service was wonderful. The beekeeper came for a site visit, set up the equipment, then scheduled regular visits every 3-4 weeks. Our summer beekeeper was Ian. Ian was great to work with, he was very knowledgable, good communicator, and prompt when scheduling his beekeeping times. His scheduling times were important to me because I enjoyed suiting up and checking on the hives with him. I liked that this service allows the customer to choose their amount of involvement in the service. Thanks to Ian's beekeeping enthusiasm and pleasant personalilty, I learned a lot about beekeeping and maintaining a healthy hive. After a couple months of anticipation, we reaped the reward of honey made on our property. The honey is packaged in containers of your choice and the label was personalized with our name on it. They made great gifts. We recommend Ames products and services. Great folks, great customer service! Thanks for the great experience Ames!
-Ericka K.

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Ericka Kuser
Beekeeper Rentals

I loved this beekeeping rental service! I love the idea of beekeeping but am not ready to take on the challenge, education of beekeeping and maintaining a healthy hive. The rent a hive and beekeeper service was wonderful. The beekeeper came for a site visit, set up the equipment, then scheduled regular visits every 3-4 weeks. Our summer beekeeper was Ian. Ian was great to work with, he was very knowledgable, good communicator, and prompt when scheduling his beekeeping times. His scheduling times were important to me because I enjoyed suiting up and checking on the hives with him. I liked that this service allows the customer to choose their amount of involvement in the service. Thanks to Ian's beekeeping enthusiasm and pleasant personalilty, I learned a lot about beekeeping and maintaining a healthy hive. After a couple months of anticipation, we reaped the reward of honey made on our property. The honey is packaged in containers of your choice and the label was personalized with our name on it. They made great gifts. We recommend Ames products and services. Great folks, great customer service! Thanks for the great experience Ames!
-Ericka K.