Pollination Services
Quality Bees → Quality Crops
Servicing Sustainable Small Farms and Gardeners

Pollination is the 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 — fruits, legumes, nuts, etc.

If you are small farmer or serious gardener who wishes to ensure a successful yield of produce or seed, we offer limited pollination services.

Small Farmer?

If you are a farmer who follows organic (or better) practices with 10 or less acres, we can pollinate for you! Pollination quality is the difference between crop success and failure. Book now! For your reference, please review one of the pollination guides linked below to best understand the value of pollination for your crop-type.

Gardener?

The Carolina Bee Company can help turn a mediocre garden into a bountiful garden. Squash, fruits, legumes, and more; 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 keep our pricing simple:

$85 per acre per bloom-cycle (or per month).

(dependent on field distance from Youngsville, NC).

Be aware that we are only interested in pollinating growers that abide by organic, organic-like, or Certified Naturally Grown practices. In our need to maintain our own certification, we have to limit our pollination in this way.

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).