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 adoptions opportunities- 3 Levels of Adopt and Name a Bee or 3 levels of Whole Hive Adoption, if that fits your 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 a hive 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 below.
Or Other ways you can help the honey bees.
HONEY BEE ADOPTION
Fingerlakes Honey Company
DRONE BEE
$10
ONE YEAR ADOPTION
Here's what you'll get:
Official Adoption Certificate
Drone Named in Recipients' Honor
Welcome to Our Hive Letter..with your personal message
WORKER BEE
$20
ONE YEAR ADOPTION
Here's what you'll get:
Official Adoption Certificate
Worker Named in Recipients' Honor
Welcome to Our Hive Letter..with your personal message
QUEEN BEE
$30
ONE YEAR ADOPTION
Here's what you'll get:
Official Adoption Certificate
Queen Named in Recipients' Honor
Welcome to Our Hive Letter..with your personal message
POPULAR
WHOLE HIVE & HONEY BEE ADOPTION
Want to adopt a whole hive? Bees are wonderful creatures performing a vital role in our ecology.
DRONE
$75
ONE YEAR ADOPTION
Here's what you'll get:
Official Adoption Certificate
Drone Named in Recipients' Honor
Name Your Drone Certificate
Welcome to Our Hive Letter..with your personal message
8oz Jar of Honey (or a gift cerificate if we are sold out)
Surprise Gift
WORKER
$150
ONE YEAR ADOPTION
Here's what you'll get:
Official Adoption Certificate
Worker Named in Recipients' Honor
Name Your Worker Certificate
Welcome to Our Hive Letter..with your personal message
1lb Jar of Honey (or a gift cerificate if we are sold out)
Surprise Gift
QUEEN
$300
ONE YEAR ADOPTION
Here's what you'll get:
Official Adoption Certificate
Queen Named in Recipients' Honor
Name Your Queen Certificate
Welcome to Our Hive Letter..with your personal message
2- 1lb Jars of Honey (or a gift cerificate if we are sold out)
Surprise Gifts
POPULAR
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 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.