Chris is a 3rd generation beekeeper from Canada. His family specialise in imports of packages and queens. You can find the family’s business at https://www.bartelbeeco.ca/

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0:00 Family

7:59 Shipping queens internationally

12:40 Old way of beekeeping in Canada

16:10 Wintering

18:55 Ezy Loader

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Monika is a polish queen breeder. Together with her team they produce a staggering 35000 virgin queens for sale each year. This is a popular way to purchase queens in Poland. They also produce mated and instrumentally inseminated queens. Monika’s team uses a range of techniques that lead them to achieve incredibly high levels of efficiency in the production of quality queens.

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https://pasieka-szeligow.pl/

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Chris is a queen breeder and honey producer who has a family based bee business that operates between Florida and Wisconsin in the US.

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