Sacramento Beekeeping Supplies

We are passionate about supplying Sacramento beekeepers with healthy, organic bees and high-quality beekeeping supplies. Mountain Sweet Honey Company has made it their mission to help other beekeepers start and maintain productive beehives and we proudly serve Sacramento beekeepers with chemical-free packaged bees and a long line of beekeeping supplies.

Sacramento is drenched in history and people travel from all over the world to visit a piece of that history through the city’s many parks and museums. Old Sacramento offers families the opportunity to take a journey back into the Gold Rush era by taking a wagon ride on wooden streets. The California State Railroad Museum offers excursion train rides, a museum, a gift shop, multiple educational tours, and an event space.

Whether you’re an experienced beekeeper or just starting out, we offer all the supplies and advice you need.

Sacramento, California Starter Beekeeping Supplies Kit

Beekeeping Supplies in Sacramento, California

Whether you’re just starting out or running a commercial business, we have all the beekeeping supplies you need for a successful beehive. We offer a complete line of beekeeping equipment. Our product line includes hive tools, extractors, and protective clothing, all of which are essential for beekeeping. Our beekeeping supplies also include 8-frame or 10-frame hive bodies, frames, foundation, screen or solid bottom boards, and telescopic covers. If you’re a beginner, we offer first-year hive kits that have all the necessary equipment for a successful and productive beehive.

You can also find bee health items in our shop including essential oils (tea tree, lemongrass), pollen, mite treatments, and supplements.

Keeping our prices affordable while offering top-quality, organic-friendly supplies is important to us.  We offer free shipping on orders more than $150 (select items not included).

About Mountain Sweet Honey

Located in the wonderful north Georgia Mountains, Mountain Sweet Honey Company started as a small hobby and has grown into a productive full-time business. We started selling honey bees and a few beekeeping items in our second year of business and we now ship honeybees across the U.S. and offer a full line of beekeeping supplies. Our focus has always been to provide chemical-free bees, and that remains the same.

We strongly believe in our purpose, which is to offer high-quality bees and beekeeping supplies, offer knowledgeable advice to beekeepers, and to always execute our orders with outstanding customer service.

In 2017, Mountain Sweet Honey Company became the #1 shipper of honey bees in the mid-west. Our growth over the years is largely due to loyal repeat customers, our understanding the logistics of shipping honey bees, and the dedicated employees who helped make this growth possible.

If you’re an expert beekeeper, just starting out, or if you’re just interested in learning more about what it takes to be a beekeeper, contact us today at (706) 886-1322 and our customer service representatives are ready to assist you.

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FAQ

It is legal to raise bees in Sacramento. On property zoned Agricultural or Agricultural-Residential, beekeeping is permitted so long as the hives are registered with the Ag Commissioner. That is the only requirement.

California law requires beekeepers to register bees. BeeWhere is a real-time mapping system where users can mark hives with a simple pin drop in the field. it is unlawful to maintain an unregistered apiary.

To sell honey in California must specifically meet the following requirements:

  • Register with the local Environmental Health Agency
  • Only market cottage foods on the approved food list through either indirect and/or direct sales to consumers
  • Complete a food processor training course
  • Implement sanitary food preparation operations
  • Create compliant labels
  • Operate within established annual gross sales limit
  • Cottage Food Operators will also have to obtain approval from their local planning department, which might have other requirements.

When spring begins and the rainfall begins to warm is the ideal time for notions to start a new hive. Their exertion situations make along with the blooming of flowers and they can tend to and make their hive as the season indications.

It is unlawful for any person to ship live insects, except those listed in California Code of Regulations (CCR) Section 3558, into the State without a permit. CCR Section 3558 contains a list of insects for which a permit is NOT required for shipping or transporting into the State. Many pollinators are not on this list. A summary of this list is maintained in the CDFA Plant Quarantine Manual.

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