Community Services
Zia Queenbee Co. and Superior Honey Farms are dedicated to assisting local,
regional and national sustainability. Our community outreach services include:
• Beekeeping education
• Community presentations
• Farm tours
• Hive hosting
• Adopt-A-Hive
Please feel free to contact us - we look forward to hearing from you! Beekeeping is a dying art! Let's work together to keep it alive and well!
Beekeeping Education and Community Presentations
Both Zia Queenbee Co. and Superior Honey Farms offer presentations, exhibits, field days and educational seminars about honeybees and beekeeping. We have collaborated with various institutions: public schools, St. John's College, Tortugas Pueblo, Santa Clara Pueblo, community clubs like New Mexico Beekeepers Association, the Santa Fe based Sangre de Cristo Beekeeping Club, and science centers like the Chihuahuan Desert Nature Park, New Mexico State University Alcalde Sustainable Agriculture Science Center and Seeds of Change Research Facility. . We also donate honeybee larvae for rehabilitation of wild bird fledglings and hatchlings at The Wildlife Center in Arroyo Seco. To date, ZQB has exhibited at several profound events: Bioneers 2007 in Santa Fe, 2007 Western Apicultural Society (WAS) Annual Conference in Tucson, AZ, 2006 and 2008 National Sustainable Agriculture Research Education (SARE) Conferences in Wisconsin and Missouri, the Colorado Beekeepers Association 2007 summer and winter meetings and the 2007 New Mexico Beekeepers Association annual meeting.
In August of 2006, we were selected to present a poster of our story at the National Sustainable Agriculture Research Education (SARE) Conference in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. Following that success, we have applied for and been granted a Farmer/Rancher Grant from the Western SARE region for 2007. The Southwest Survivor Queenbee Project, funded by WSARE, is an innovative collaboration to develop a regionally adapted breed of queenbees for the Rocky Mountain and Greater American Southwest regions.
The Southwest Survivor Queenbee Project invites beekeepers in the Land of Enchantment and neighboring states to share their quality survivor stock with Zia Queenbee Company and then to receive the specially grafted and fecundated daughters of these prize queens called Rocky Mountain Reinas. The beekeepers will incorporate these survivor queen daughters into their hives and provide reviews of the progenies traits in order to improve regional honeybees. The Southwest Survivor Queenbee Project began in 2006 as an expansion of a Great Lakes survivor queen project initiated by Superior Honey Farms in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in 2003.
Links
Permaculture Institute: http://www.permaculture.org
New Mexico Beekeeper's Association: http://www.nmbeekeepers.org
Dadant and Sons-Beekeeping Supplies: http://www.dadant.com
Mann Lake, Ltd.-Beekeeping Supplies: http://www.mannlakeltd.com
Betterbee-Beekeeping Supplies: http://www.betterbee.com
Sangre de Cristo Beekeeping Club, Santa Fe: katewhealen@earthlink.net
or http://groups.yahoo.com/search?query=sangre+de+cristo+beekeepers
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education: http://www.sare.org
Michigan State Beekeeper's Association: http://www.michiganbees.org
Formula Earth Products: http://www.formulaearthproducts.com
NM Apple Council | A-Bee Honey Co. and Pest Control: http://www.nmapples.com
