Queens bred to survive and thrive through the tough Saskatchewan Winter.

Getting our bees to come out strong from some of Canada’s toughest winters has been our main directive in breeding for over 40 years. We like to open our hives end of April in Saskatchewan and see our doubles with the cluster right across with plenty of left over food.

We don’t baby our hives

• We never fall feed our honey producing hives

• We don’t treat for Nosema

• We don’t winter indoors

• We don’t heavily insulate our hives for winter

• We don’t excessively treat for disease

Maintaining a diverse gene pool is one of the most important things we do in our operation

• Genetic diversity within hives and within an apiary helps fight disease

• Genetic diversity within a hive helps with winter thermoregulation

• Maintaining genetic diversity within a bee population hedges our risk for the next inevitable arrival of a new disease/virus/pest

• We graft from as many suitable families as possible each year to ensure no valuable trait is left behind.

• We are always evaluating new stock to build up our genetic base.

There is tremendous value in operations that have been hit by major losses

The greater the losses, the greater the selective pressure on a population = increased resistance to said selective pressure. If your operation has been hit hard by losses, please contact us, and together we can build up our respective gene pools. We are very open to queen swapping with operations who know which hives are their real winners.