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2025 HiveShare
Meet the Bees & Share the Honey
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How it works
Reserve your share of the honey harvest at the start of the season. In June 2025, you'll be invited to meet the bees that will make your honey at our annual Bee Days event! At harvest time, in September, you'll receive a year's supply of local raw honey (twelve 500g jars)
Hive Share Bee Days
On June 8th and 9th 2025, our Hive Share holders are invited to our Bee Days! This annual event is is a truly unique educational experience for the whole family. Throughout the day, we'll be holding demonstrations to share our love for bees, including:
Honeybee Show & Tell - Learn about our equipment, try on a bee jacket, turn the crank of a honey extractor and pump the bellows of a smoker! Can you spot the queen in the observation hive?
Pollination Station - Kids games, dress-up, colouring, and waggle dancing (did you know bees communicate by dancing?!)
Meet the Bees - Join us in the bee yard where we'll show you the active beehives and bees inside!
The Honey
In September 2025, you'll receive a year's supply of local raw honey (twelve 500g jars) from our local beehives! Gees Bees is located in the neighbourhood of Honey Gables (Riverside South, Ottawa) on a National Capital Commission site. We're converting this 8-acre site to a bee sanctuary to teach people about the importance of bees. Your support as a Hive Share holder helps us continue and grow our pollinator education activities each season!
Honey from our Pollination Projects is pure, raw, wildflower honey. Throughout the summer, the bees visit a multitude of flowers including white clover, vetch, birdsfoot trefoil, basswood trees, acacia trees, goldenrod, and more. We harvest the honey around the end of August to have it ready for you in September. The flavour of honey depends on the flowers the bees visit to make it, and they visit 2 million flowers to make each jar!
