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Looking for a meaningful gift for someone (or yourself!) who loves nature, gardening, honey bees, or supporting pollinators? Our Honey Bee Adoption Program lets them become part of our hive family for an entire year.
Adopting a beehive or honey bee with Fingerlakes Honey Company means you'll feel good about supporting local bees and a local beekeeper. The beehive and bees will be stationed in our apiary in the bee-utiful Fingerlakes Region of New York.
Choose between
SIX ADOPTION OPPORTUNITIES-
Adopt and Name a Bee- Drone, Worker, or Queen Bee Levels
OR
Whole Hive Adoption- Drone, Worker, or Queen Hive Levels
There's something for every budget!
The extra benefits are pretty sweet too. With your adoption, you will have roughly 60,000 new friends. Your adopt a hive or honey bee donation will help support our bees at Fingerlakes Honey Company for one year. Your adoption directly helps support and sustain healthy bee colonies that are vital to pollination and the ecology. It will go toward purchasing hives, bees, equipment, and organic treatments to help save the bees.
Adopting is perfect for anyone interested in beekeeping but not able to have hives due to the expense, limited space or time. Adoptions can be purchased for yourself or as a gift for family or friends. They make great wedding, birthday, or Mother's/Father's Day gifts.
*Each donation is for one year only.
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Check out our 6 adoption packages
OR other ways you can help the honey bees.
HONEY BEE ADOPTION
"WAYS TO HELP THE HONEY BEES."
"Which adoption is right for me?"
Choose Your Hive Experience:
🐝 Drone Bee Adoption — Perfect for curious bee lovers and first-time adopters.
🐝 Worker Bee Adoption — Perfect for someone who wants to celebrate the bees behind every drop of honey.
👑 Queen Bee Adoption — Perfect for someone who loves the magic of the hive.
🐝 Hive Member Adoptions —
Perfect for gifts, bee enthusiasts, and those who want to make a bigger impact.
HONEY BEE ADOPTION
DRONE BEE
$10
ONE YEAR ADOPTION
Here's what you'll get:
Welcome to Our Hive Letter with your personal message
Drone Named in Recipients' Honor
Official Drone Adoption Certificate
Drone Bookmark
Honey Bee Fact Sheet
WORKER BEE
$20
ONE YEAR ADOPTION
Here's what you'll get:
Welcome to Our Hive Letter with your personal message
Worker Named in Recipients' Honor
Official Worker Adoption Certificate
Worker Bookmark
Honey Bee Fact Sheet
QUEEN BEE
$30
ONE YEAR ADOPTION
Here's what you'll get:
Welcome to Our Hive Letter with your personal message
Queen Named in Recipients' Honor
Official Queen Adoption Certificate
Queen Bookmark
Honey Bee Fact Sheet
POPULAR
WHOLE HIVE & HONEY BEE ADOPTION
Want to adopt a whole hive? Bees are wonderful creatures performing a vital role in our ecology.
DRONE HIVE
MEMBER
$75
ONE YEAR ADOPTION
Here's what you'll receive:
Welcome to Our Hive Letter with
your personal message
Official Drone Hive Adoption Membership Certificate
Drone Named in Recipients' Honor
Official Drone Adoption Certificate
Drone Bookmark
Honey Bee Fact Sheet
8oz Jar of Honey
(or comparable gift if shipping outside NY)
Surprise Gifts
WORKER HIVE
MEMBER
$150
ONE YEAR ADOPTION
Here's what you'll receive:
Welcome to Our Hive Letter with
your personal message
Official Worker Hive Adoption Membership Certificate
Worker Named in Recipients' Honor
Official Worker Adoption Certificate
Worker Bookmark
Honey Bee Fact Sheet
1lb Jar of Honey
(or comparable gift if shipping outside NY)
Surprise Gifts
QUEEN HIVE
MEMBER
$300
ONE YEAR ADOPTION
Here's what you'll receive:
Welcome to Our Hive Letter with
your personal message
Official Queen Hive Adoption Membership Certificate
Queen Named in Recipients' Honor
Official Queen Adoption Certificate
Queen Bookmark
Honey Bee Fact Sheet
1lb Spring & Autumn of Honey
(or comparable gift if shipping outside NY)
Surprise Gifts
POPULAR
What People Say About Our Adoptions
I wanted to think outside the box for a residence's graduation gift. He loves honey bees so this place was amazing in their communication and for me to get to adopt a bee in his honor and name it was one of the best most sentimental gifts I could have given him.
-Anngie, Worker Bee Adoption Customer
OTHER WAYS YOU CAN HELP THE HONEY BEES
Stop using chemicals in your garden and on your yard! Pesticides, insecticides and weed killer are powerful and persistent and kill bees and other beneficial insects. Consider biological and organic controls like ladybugs or praying mantis!
Grow Native! Grow plants native to your region. Select plants that produce a lot of nectar and pollen. Ask your local garden supply shop for details.
Buy organic! Some seeds contain clothianidin and other systemic insecticides that kill bees and other insects. Read the labels and if in doubt don't buy them. Organic seeds cost only pennies more than conventional. Some commercial compost contains imidacloprid, a very deadly insecticide. This chemical gets into the soil and water thereby absorbed by plants, ingested by people, bees, and butterflies. Go organic as much as you can.