Our illustrious beekeeping associate and friend Resa will be selling her exquisite goats milks and beeswax soaps and salves and her painted silk scarves along with our honey at the following spring events: Starting Saturday, May 12th and every Saturday from 7am-12pom at the Tri- County farmers market in Pecos. Every Sunday at The Santa [...]

We are hella busy at this time of year- we have grafts to conduct, nucleus hives to stock, emerging virgin queens to get into new homes, hives to move for pollination and the list goes on! If you are trying to reach us- either via phone or email, please be aware that turnaround for communication [...]

This photo album generated with Smilebox In Her Majesty’s Chambers: Intro to Queen Rearing Workshop Conducted by Zia Queenbee Co. at home farm in Truchas, NM 8300 feet elevation in southern Rocky Mountains WHEN: July 14-15th COST: $200 includes manual, grafting tool, practice cell cups, live queencells to take home and instruction. Workshop overviews introductory [...]

Spring is getting underway here in the northern Rio Grande Valleys with stone fruit orchards blooming. Up here at our home farm at 8300 feet we had fresh wet snow just last week. But dandelions are out and our apricot tree and currants are peaking with visits from several different native bees and butterflies. Our [...]

We have officially hung up on Windstream Telephone co. Their service is horrible and while they have told me numerous times in the past they will work with us on the issues, they haven’t. So…we are done with them. Unfortunately, cell reception in our mountain range is hit and miss. Our area specifically doesn’t always [...]

We have just completed our early spring check on overwintered nucs. We have decided to give them another couple of weeks to beef up before scheduling pick ups. We will make contact with those who have made reservations when we are ready to schedule pick ups. Pick ups are scheduled for early morning or near [...]

2012 Spring Sting flyer We are pleased to once again help produce this year’s 3rd Annual Northern New Mexico Rocky Mountain Sweet Spring Sting                  – A Symposium on Pollinator and Human Health- taking place April 14th in Santa Fe, New Mexico at Santa Fe Greenhouses.* Free to Everyone donations accepted. Suggested Donation $10-15 No [...]

 Hello to all-             We have the good fortune to have an opportunity to spend some time with Mark and Melanie who are very experienced full time beekeepers and also raise queens. http://www.ziaqueenbees.com/who.htm  Weather will play a controlling role in this event and if it cooperates our schedule will be as follows:      Saturday morning, [...]

We have stopped taking reservations for both Langstroth and top bar nucleus colonies for this 2012 season. Once we get started and spring weather stabilizes, we will be  able to confirm our count of overwintered hives. As  we begin rearing, we will be better able to assess if our bees might be able to accomodate more splits. [...]

Several friends forwarded us this wonderful video of diverse pollinators. The cinematography is surreal. NJoy. http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/xHkq1edcbk4?rel=0

I’ve been invited to share a little about survivor stock queen honeybee breeding and regional sustainability of bee stewardship with Laurie Lange of the NM Bee Collaborative  on Albuquerque Public Radio Station- KUNM 89.9FM. It will stream live on Women’s Focus on Saturday, February 25th, 2012. The program will begin at noon and the bee [...]

We will be opening the reservations list for spring bees and queens on Jan. 21st. Our pricing will remain the same as last year.  http://ziaqueenbees.com/ZQBprices2012.pdf NUCS:  We will have fresh season Langstroth nucs and top bar nucs* beginning in late May-early June. We are sold out of our Early Season Overwintered Starter Nucleus Colonies. QUEENS: [...]

Marygael Meister- the DenverBees.org coordinator has put together a most awesome list of visiting presentors for this year. Their meetings are free and open to all beekeepers. 2012 REGULAR MEETINGS Our monthly meetings begin at 7:00 pm on the 4th Tuesday of the month in the Denver Police Station District 1 Community Room at 1311 [...]

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We will be presenting at this 2012 North American Beekeeping Conference- held in Las Vegas, NV Jan. 10-14th. For more info visit: http://www.nabeekeepingconference.com/ Mark will be discussing, “How Old Are Your Drone’s Mothers?” Melanie will be discussing her enlistment “In Her Majesty’s Secret Service” & “Father Time Tested- Mother Nature Approved: Utilizing Longevity as the [...]

Our good friend and rep Resa will be selling her exquisite painted silks and goat milk soaps and beeswax salves along with some of our varietal honeys and other bee goodies at a few events coming up for the holidays. This coming weekend, Nov. 26-27th, You can find her at the NM Highlands University, Arts [...]

Come taste the best of this season’s harvest on Nov. 12th at Jemez Feast Day in Jemez Pueblo. The dancing is divine and so is the food and artesanal wares! We have been assigned to booth #272 on Walatowa Avenue at Jemez Pueblo. Look for the NM HONEY flag. Should be a glorious day along [...]

What a gorgeous day- snow falling on the mountains and the golden leaved cottonwood trees and aspens twinkling! This Saturday and Sunday is the 30th Annual Dixon Studio Art Tour! Many local artists and artesans will be opening their home studios and displaying their work and wares. From ceramics to woodworking, paintings and sculptures to [...]