Bees of the San Juan

02/11/2025

How is your new year's resolution to keep bees going? Is this going to be your year?!? Get in touch with us today, we'll help you get started and see your bees through a productive and healthy year!

03/27/2024

Join us! We need to check the nursery hives!

Back by popular demand 🐝 Buzz over to SJN this Saturday at 1:00 to learn all about beekeeping with Dr. Brad Scoggins 🐝🍯

02/27/2024

02/24/2024

Check out the launch of our new Beekeeping Class!

02/06/2024

One of our favorite seminars of the year is coming up on FEBRUARY 10th at 1:00 PM 🐝 Dr. Brad Scoggins will be at SJN to go over everything you need to know about BEES 🍯 If you have a bee suit, bring it! We will be working hands on with the hives 🐝🐝🐝🐝

01/23/2024

The warm weather has everyone thinking Bees ! I'm getting a lot of questions about where to get Local nucs . San Juan Bees and the Marquis in Farmington will have nucs available in the springs . Their information can be found here https://4cornersbeekeepers.com/resource-center/for-sale-trade/
We will also have our local nucs for sale ,usually beginning in May . Contact me to get on the list of either selling or buying .

Beginner Bee Class .
If you want to be successful and not have your bees die a beginner bee class is a MUST !
Tina Sebestyen our master beekeeper is teaching
this year's Beginning Beekeeping class which will be held on March 8th, 6-8 PM and 9th, 9 AM-2PM at the La Plata County Fairgrounds (and via Zoom). Cost will be $60 (free to veterans). Our teacher is Tina Sebestyen. She has been keeping bees since 2007 (that's 17 full seasons). She was mentored by "old guys" and learned in the school of hard knocks. She founded 4CBA and was its president for 8 years. She also founded the Colorado Master Beekeeper Program and was its program coordinator for 5 years. She is a frequent contributor to Bee Culture magazine and the American Bee Journal, and speaks all over the US. This class is an accredited pre-requisite to the CSBA Master Beekeeper Program.

Tina can be reached at [email protected]
please pre-register

orders for bee packages will open in a couple of days . Stay tuned !

04/18/2023

Day one of queen rearing process: Create Packed nucleus colony. 2 frames of brood (with adhering bees), 2 of food and 1 foundation. 7 frames of bees (gently shaken in front of the hive). Hopelessly queenless

04/17/2023

Time to get queens going! It's been an unusual start to the season but hopefully the weather will hold out from here! I hope everyone's colonies are in reasonable shape coming out of this winter. Either way, let us know if you need bees, queens or honey! Lists filling up quickly for bees!

08/13/2022

Make sure your queens are young and laying well going in to winter. This is an essential part of winter preparations! I will be delivering queens this weekend in Farmington, NM if you are in need! Only a few left. Next round is coming soon!

07/31/2022

More queens on the way! Message me if you need queens. Time for fall splits is getting closer.