Apiaries on your land.
Managed by us.
Palmetto Farms places and manages honey bee colonies on land other people own: corridor parcels, pond tracts, solar sites, conservation land.
We supply the bees, the equipment and the beekeepers. You supply a gate and a place to stand hives.
A working apiary.
A connection to your land.
A working apiary on your property, run by a Florida-registered commercial apiary. Reports on colony health and forage. Honey from your land, jarred, for your people. A site sign. A scheduled hive opening for your team.
Our bees. Our equipment.
Our beekeepers.
Hives sit well back from property lines, roads and public areas, behind fencing and a flyway screen. We come and go through your maintenance gates and work around your mowing and spray schedule.
All colonies are headed by marked European queens and inspected under Florida Department of Agriculture rules. General liability names you as additional insured.
Seasonal forage, close to home.
Central Florida corridors can carry saw palmetto and Brazilian pepper on unmown slopes. Both can provide seasonal nectar. Brazilian pepper is invasive, so we plan around your vegetation-management schedule.
Stewardship you can put in a report.
A managed apiary turns land you already own and already maintain into a working environmental program with numbers attached. Every quarter your partner report carries colony count and condition, forage observed on the site, honey harvested, and photographs. That is a sustainability record built on your land, by a local Florida farm, without capital spend or staff time.
We keep the footprint small. No structures, no ground disturbance, no chemical inputs on the site beyond approved colony treatments inside the hive. Equipment comes out and the site goes back to grade within thirty days of the program ending.
Honey bees and native bees.
Honey bees are managed livestock. Florida's native bees, several hundred species of them, are the conservation concern, and we do not claim that a hive helps them. We run the program so it stays out of their way. Small yards, never large ones. Sites on working and disturbed land with abundant forage, such as corridor slopes and pond tracts, not on high-quality native habitat. Colonies kept healthy, treated and requeened on schedule, because a sick colony is the one that shares disease. Where a partner wants to help native pollinators, that is the habitat work: native plantings and reduced-mow zones on land already out of the mowing cycle, scoped and reported as a separate phase. We say all of this plainly because your program should be able to survive a hard question.
A fixed monthly fee per site.
Bees, equipment and apiary management, brought together.
Your site’s scope, included services and monthly program fee are set out in a written quote.