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Hemken Honey Company
Address:
Big Bend, WISCONSIN 53103 United States
Description:
Hemken Honey Company
| Bee Information | |
| Bees for sale? | |
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| If "Other" please explain | |
| Used equipment, beekeeping classes, beekeeping presentations. | |
| What characteristics do you use to select your breeding stock? | |
| Use Carniolan stocks | |
| Where is the source of your bees and what strain(s) are they? | |
| Replacement bees are Carniolans | |
| Where do the bees overwinter? | |
| Wintering in place | |
| Do the bees spend the whole season in your home location? If not, where do they go and when, and for how long? | |
| We run a main home yard, and approximately 22 outyards in southeast Wisconsin, west of Milwaukee | |
| Do you monitor for varroa mites? How and how often? | |
| With 500 hives we rarely do formal inspections. We do drone brood monitoring mid-summer, and are on a regular medication schedule | |
| Have your hives been inspected by an inspector? | |
| We take advantage of our Wisconsin state inspectors, and usually participate in special studies | |
| Anything else? (e.g. describe your operation) | |
| We run approximately 500 beehives, along with two donated observation hives at the Milwaukee County Zoo and the Milwaukee Public Schools Hawthorn Glen Nature Center. We are active with six farm markets every week in the season, along with various special events. We also supply a number of small bakeries and other outlets. We operate a beginning beekeeping class in February of each year, along with a free field day for new beekeepers. We conduct various beekeeping presentations around the area, as well as presentations at county bee meetings and state beekeeping conferences. | |
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