Pollination Services
Quality Bees → Quality Crops
Servicing Small Farms and Serious Gardners

Pollination is the #1 most important role that honey bees fulfill for mankind. Without honey bees we could not achieve the crop-yields that we do. Without honey bees many foods that we have taken for granted and the seeds to produce these foods would not exist or would be very scarce. These include most of our fruits, legumes, nuts, and others.

If you are small farmer and/or serious gardener who wishes to boost their production by sometimes 2- to 3-fold, we offer limited pollination services.

Small Farmer?

Honey bees will increase crop yield (sometimes up to 2x to 3x yield) and boost quality (larger, more fully developed produce). Producing seed? Honey bees are needed for that as well.

If you are a farmer with 10 or less acres (depending on the crop), we can pollinate you! Book now! Review the pollination guide below for your product(s), but often proper pollination will require 2 hives per acre per bloom cycle.

Gardner?

The Carolina Bee Company can help turn a mediocre garden into a bountiful garden. Squash, fruits, legumes, etc. a honey bee hive can fill in those pollination gaps and add a buzz to your garden. Todd and Monica will gladly walk you through the bee hives as well. Honey bees bring life to a garden that will delight your senses and help fill your pantry.

We rent a minimum of two hives on a monthly basis for serious gardners.

Please contact us for more information.

Some helpful links:

• The Value of Honey Bees as Pollinators in N.C. [PDF] (accessed 3 March 2008).
• The definitive pollination guide: Insect Pollination Of Cultivated Crop Plants (accessed 3 March 2008).
• Pollinating Fruit Crops. Or download the PDF (accessed 3 March 2008).
• Cucumber Pollination. The article was written in 1995 which makes this statement inaccurate due to the steep decline of native pollinators and feral honey bees in recent years: "A small cucumber field of less than three acres near undisturbed (non-cultivated) areas will probably have enough wild bees to adequately pollinate the cucumber crop." Small farmers, even if producing a native food crop, may not be able to rely on native pollinators or feral honey bees (accessed 3 March 2008).
• Honey Plants of North Carolina, (PDF version). The primary honey (and pollen) producing plants of NC (accessed 3 March 2008).
• Beekeeper+Grower pollination linking: Bee Linked (accessed 3 March 2008).