Donate a Queen Bee

Your gift will allow our nonprofit to provide a queen bee to a beekeeping partner. We teach our partners to re-queen each hive each year to ensure strong genetic stock and healthy hives. Many of our queens come from our ABC Queen Rearing program. We are raising our own queen bees to selectively breed a hearty line of locally adapted honey bees. We hope to continue growing this program over the coming years to provide all queen bees for partner hives. We have over 850 hives spread across more than 100 partners. Every additional hive, new bee colony, or queen bee helps us to increase honey production, grow the project and support partner beekeepers. When you support an ABC partner, your gift boosts the partner’s income. A hive can produce approximately 40-60 pounds of honey for sale each year. A diligent beekeeper can also split his or her hives each year, meaning that your gift may grow into an entire apiary over the next several years. It also helps the environment. Bee hives stimulate