MacQuarrie Family Bees

05/13/2026

First swarm call of 2026! These ones were trying to join a track & field competition at a local school ... not exactly ideal. They're now moving into their snazzy new home! 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝

02/04/2025

Made OF Canada!
100% natural, local Niagara honey.

12/06/2024

Hey - Come join us for "Winter at the Market" tonight! Another fun evening ahead with some wonderful local vendors! Whether you stop by to do some holiday shopping, enjoy some holiday treats, visit with Santa or come just to enjoy the LIVE music, the market is bustling and worth the visit tonight! The fun runs until 9:30pm!

11/29/2024

We're so excited to be participating in this exciting event at the St. Catharines Market for the next 3 Friday evenings! We'll have our fresh stock of gorgeous, golden, raw Niagara wildflower honey for sale as well as a fun "Queen Spotting" activity for the kids to enjoy when they visit! Come and ask us all your "honeybee questions" and enjoy this fun kickoff to the winter season!

09/28/2024

Our day is off to a great start! Come on down to the Beaverdams Church Apple Fest until 3:00 today. Apple pies, apples, butter tarts, and HONEY! 0 Marlatts Road, Thorold.

09/02/2024

🍯 Happy Honey Season! 🍯

Our family have been busy bees ourselves behind the scenes restocking our delicious raw, Niagara Wildflower Honey!

We have a limited supply ready to go now with more to follow in the coming weeks!

1kg jars of liquid golden - $20
500g jars of liquid golden - $12

Pick-up near downtown Thorold.
Text Ken @ 905.325.3649 or send us a direct message to arrange your order.

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06/19/2024

Join us tomorrow morning at 10AM EST as we partner with AgScape to share an exciting, LIVE Virtual Field Trip with students from across Ontario!

Educators, youth leaders, homeschoolers - register here to get a FREE downloadable activity kit along with the links to join: https://agscape.ca/virtual-field-trip-honeybees-at-the-hive.php

Friends, family and ANYONE else who wishes to join in, you can find us LIVE here tomorrow, or on AgScape's page or YouTube Channel. Just visit the page and click the link!

The replay will be available afterwards for anyone interested!

AND there is also a FRENCH language Bee Virtual Field Trip with another organization tomorrow at 2pm - details can be found here: https://agscape.ca/excursion-virtuelle-bravo-les-abeilles.php

05/25/2024

Here's a little stored sunshine from the last few weeks to brighten up your rainy day.

05/20/2024

Swarm season! Yesterday afternoon we got a call about a swarm in Thorold at St John's Anglican church. We put the queen and many of the bees into a box and then installed a lid with a one-way entrance. It's amazing to see that, as the remaining bees made their way inside, they seem to circle around on the cover in a clockwise direction.

04/23/2024

It's gonna be a bright, bright, sun-shiney day! At sunrise this morning, we introduced some of our colonies to a local farmer's canola field. I stuffed some grass in the entrance of each hive to slow their emergence and help them to orient to their new location. Enjoy your tasty snack, bees!

04/09/2024

So we know that you're all wondering ... what exactly did the bees do during today's solar eclipse?

Being in the path of totality meant we knew we absolutely MUST set up a camera just to see what would happen ...

The results were pretty interesting!!!

On April 8, 2024, our bee hives experienced the path of totality during the solar eclipse. This is a somewhat condensed video of their activity at the time....