2024 Prices and info
Diju Farm operates a small apiary of approximately 12 -15 hives. Judi works closely with a mentor who has been raising bees since the early 1960s, she also is personally mentored by a large Manitoba commercial beekeeper. Judi's, apiary is inspected and offer nucs, queens and single hives on a limited basis. We sell what we want to buy, that means lots of bees, a proven laying queen and no empty frames! We treat using a mostly organic treatment plan and only on an as needed basis. We offer a mentorship program for new beekeepers
5 frame nucs are available for $275. You will get a full box of bees with 5 frames of bees, brood, eggs, food and a colony headed by their own proven locally bred queen. This queen will be a new season, or over wintered, queen that will have proven herself by providing you with lots of new eggs and brood. We do not fill with empty frames, we sell what we want to purchase and no empty or unfilled drawn comb, 5 full frames of bees is what you get! Bring your own box and get $10 off the cost of your nuc.
- OBA guidelines, for nucs, is a 4 frame nucs with a queen, one frame of food, two frames with eggs and larvae and one empty frame. This is the standard that you will purchase from most bee yards.
10 frame single box is available for $350. I suggest that if you are just starting out, purchase single boxes over nucs. Though they seem to cost more, in the long run they cost you way less and allow you to grow faster, get some honey and purchase a colony that has better staying power. You will get a box of bees with 10 full frames of bees, brood, eggs and food all headed by their own queen that is established as a good hive mother. We provide you with a used box, lid and bottom board and no empty frames or unfilled but drawn frames. These boxes are often ready to super as soon as you get them or shortly there after.
Queens are available for $50. Our girls are raised in our apiaries and selected from only our best hives. Our selection process is based on temperament, health and honey production. We like our bees to be easy to work with, healthy and produce lots of delicious honey, we do not feel the need to keep any bees that have bad tempers. Many queen breeders focus on producing queens, some could care less about temperament, production or health as they just produce queens in large numbers, much like a puppy mill does with producing large numbers of puppies. Our goal is to share our quality and as a result our queens are very limited and carefully selected, unlike many queen production operations, we do not mass produce our queens just to sell queens.
All our queens are bred from our best hives and proven queens. These local mutts consist of Saskatraz, Italian, Russian and probably Carniolan stock but with many generations of local bee breeding the resulting stock is gentle to work with, hardy, top producers with strong over wintering traits. Queens are given 21-28 days to settle in their hives after emergence and our queens are never banked. Studies have shown that queens, at this age, are more readily accepted and more mature so they settle into their new hives easier with less supersede occurring.
Diju Farm operates a small apiary of approximately 12 -15 hives. Judi works closely with a mentor who has been raising bees since the early 1960s, she also is personally mentored by a large Manitoba commercial beekeeper. Judi's, apiary is inspected and offer nucs, queens and single hives on a limited basis. We sell what we want to buy, that means lots of bees, a proven laying queen and no empty frames! We treat using a mostly organic treatment plan and only on an as needed basis. We offer a mentorship program for new beekeepers
5 frame nucs are available for $275. You will get a full box of bees with 5 frames of bees, brood, eggs, food and a colony headed by their own proven locally bred queen. This queen will be a new season, or over wintered, queen that will have proven herself by providing you with lots of new eggs and brood. We do not fill with empty frames, we sell what we want to purchase and no empty or unfilled drawn comb, 5 full frames of bees is what you get! Bring your own box and get $10 off the cost of your nuc.
- OBA guidelines, for nucs, is a 4 frame nucs with a queen, one frame of food, two frames with eggs and larvae and one empty frame. This is the standard that you will purchase from most bee yards.
10 frame single box is available for $350. I suggest that if you are just starting out, purchase single boxes over nucs. Though they seem to cost more, in the long run they cost you way less and allow you to grow faster, get some honey and purchase a colony that has better staying power. You will get a box of bees with 10 full frames of bees, brood, eggs and food all headed by their own queen that is established as a good hive mother. We provide you with a used box, lid and bottom board and no empty frames or unfilled but drawn frames. These boxes are often ready to super as soon as you get them or shortly there after.
- you will get way more bees
- a used lid costs about $10
- a used bottom board costs about $10
- a used deep with drawn comb costs about $45
- if you consider that you would be getting twice the bees and twice the drawn comb (it is way easier for your bees to start with drawn comb as opposed to new comb) you are saving your bees a lot of work, will get the difference back in honey and do it for $10 less in initial output.
Queens are available for $50. Our girls are raised in our apiaries and selected from only our best hives. Our selection process is based on temperament, health and honey production. We like our bees to be easy to work with, healthy and produce lots of delicious honey, we do not feel the need to keep any bees that have bad tempers. Many queen breeders focus on producing queens, some could care less about temperament, production or health as they just produce queens in large numbers, much like a puppy mill does with producing large numbers of puppies. Our goal is to share our quality and as a result our queens are very limited and carefully selected, unlike many queen production operations, we do not mass produce our queens just to sell queens.
All our queens are bred from our best hives and proven queens. These local mutts consist of Saskatraz, Italian, Russian and probably Carniolan stock but with many generations of local bee breeding the resulting stock is gentle to work with, hardy, top producers with strong over wintering traits. Queens are given 21-28 days to settle in their hives after emergence and our queens are never banked. Studies have shown that queens, at this age, are more readily accepted and more mature so they settle into their new hives easier with less supersede occurring.
We pride ourselves in raising quiet, hardworking bees. Our bees are worked with minimal intrusion from us and we treat them with the respect that they deserve. We are working towards a total organic mite treatment program that allows us to treat with the least dangerous system for the bees and their hives. No treatments are ever performed while the bees have human honey and only on an as needed basis. Our bees live in an area where there is no crop farming and no chemical use on the plants allowing them to create a honey that is herbicide and pesticide free.
An interesting note on honey bees, DO NOT LET PEOPLE TRY TO TELL YOU THAT Honey Bees ARE AN AT RISK SPECIES! No one is going to ‘save the honey bee’. Honey bees are not native to North America and they are not at risk of dying off. They are a farmed animal that is not able to live any length of time with out human intervention. Yes, they are facing issues from pesticides and herbicides. Yes, they have a number if health issues that we must treat for and protect the from such as varroa mites and American Foul Brood and yes, we might have bad winters where some bee yards might face 50-100% losses but we can and do replace these. If you wish to ‘save the bees’ understand that it is the Native Pollinators that ARE at risk. All of the things that we see affecting our honey bees are killing them in huge numbers. As more and more fields are plowed under and turned to crops such as corn, wheat, soybeans, etc. our wild bees have to look harder to find food and housing. As fence rows are cleared out to expand cropping, pollinator homes are destroyed and the diversity of their food is reduced. When we mow down more and more native plants or destroy them because we don’t want weeds in out lawn, we are reducing the food they can eat. When we use pesticide and herbicide, we are poisoning them. If you want to ‘save the bees’ don’t worry about the honey bees; plant native flowers, stop using chemicals, leave patches of weeds, let the dandelions bloom, mulch you weeds and leaves, maybe even consider getting a bee house. Most native pollinators are solitary bees and they are at risk and we are losing some of them due to how we care for the land.
Save the bees, save the butterflies but don’t let anyone tell you that they are putting money to save the honey bees. Honey bees will survive no matter how bad our losses get because they are not a wild animal but a farmed product.
An interesting note on honey bees, DO NOT LET PEOPLE TRY TO TELL YOU THAT Honey Bees ARE AN AT RISK SPECIES! No one is going to ‘save the honey bee’. Honey bees are not native to North America and they are not at risk of dying off. They are a farmed animal that is not able to live any length of time with out human intervention. Yes, they are facing issues from pesticides and herbicides. Yes, they have a number if health issues that we must treat for and protect the from such as varroa mites and American Foul Brood and yes, we might have bad winters where some bee yards might face 50-100% losses but we can and do replace these. If you wish to ‘save the bees’ understand that it is the Native Pollinators that ARE at risk. All of the things that we see affecting our honey bees are killing them in huge numbers. As more and more fields are plowed under and turned to crops such as corn, wheat, soybeans, etc. our wild bees have to look harder to find food and housing. As fence rows are cleared out to expand cropping, pollinator homes are destroyed and the diversity of their food is reduced. When we mow down more and more native plants or destroy them because we don’t want weeds in out lawn, we are reducing the food they can eat. When we use pesticide and herbicide, we are poisoning them. If you want to ‘save the bees’ don’t worry about the honey bees; plant native flowers, stop using chemicals, leave patches of weeds, let the dandelions bloom, mulch you weeds and leaves, maybe even consider getting a bee house. Most native pollinators are solitary bees and they are at risk and we are losing some of them due to how we care for the land.
Save the bees, save the butterflies but don’t let anyone tell you that they are putting money to save the honey bees. Honey bees will survive no matter how bad our losses get because they are not a wild animal but a farmed product.
Honey Prices for 2024 - Farmgate prices
Raw, Unfiltered Wildflower Honey Creamed or Liquid
Comb Raw Unfiltered Wildflower Honey
Raw, Unfiltered Buckwheat Liquid Honey
Raw Propolis
Raw Pollen
Bees Wax
Please contact me for special order discounts.
Raw, Unfiltered Wildflower Honey Creamed or Liquid
- 500 grams $ 11.00
- case of 12 $100
- 1 kilogram $ 18.00
- case of 12 $165
- 3 kilograms $ 45.00
- 5 kilograms $ 65.00
- 7 kilograms $ 90.00
- 15 kilograms $185.00 (liquid only)
- 27 kilograms $325.00 (liquid only)
Comb Raw Unfiltered Wildflower Honey
- Cassette comb honey $ 15.00
Raw, Unfiltered Buckwheat Liquid Honey
- 375 grams $ 11.00
- case of 12 $100
- 750 grams $ 18.00
- case of 12 $165
- 3 kilograms $ 50.00
Raw Propolis
- 30 grams $ 15.00
Raw Pollen
- 250 grams $ 15.00
Bees Wax
- 40 gram blocks $ 2.50
- hexagone bricks $ 3.50
- 1 lb blocks $ 25.00
Please contact me for special order discounts.
Raw Unfiltered honey is as it comes from the hive. After the bees have collected most of their winter honey, the surplus honey is removed from the honey supers. It is uncapped by hand and run through the extractor in small batches. Upon leaving the extractor it is run through a strainer that separates the larger pieces of wax, debris, pollen and be parts. It is than poured into a large holding tank where it mixes all of the season’s different wildflower honeys together for a consistent flavor, texture and color. After it sits in the holding tank for a while, the finer particles float to the top of the tank. The honey is then run through a finer screen and put into pails, bottled or a pouring pail for later bottling.
Wax capping, from uncapping and the tanks is then collected and placed back out for the bees to clean and reuse any of the honey left on them for their winter stores. The cleaned wax capping’s are placed in a solar-melter where they are cleaned and melted into large blocks. Older wax is also gathered and cleaned in this manner but the two kinds are not mixed. Wax capping’s are a light to bright yellow and can be used for makeup, lip balms, creams and lotions. Older was can be cleaned and used for furniture polish, candles and craft projects.
Wax capping, from uncapping and the tanks is then collected and placed back out for the bees to clean and reuse any of the honey left on them for their winter stores. The cleaned wax capping’s are placed in a solar-melter where they are cleaned and melted into large blocks. Older wax is also gathered and cleaned in this manner but the two kinds are not mixed. Wax capping’s are a light to bright yellow and can be used for makeup, lip balms, creams and lotions. Older was can be cleaned and used for furniture polish, candles and craft projects.