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1 Completely Assembled & Painted Beehive
1 Completely Assembled & Painted Beehive
One new, completely assembled beehive assembled and painted and now comes with an entrance Feeder
 
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Honey-B-Healthy
Honey-B-Healthy is a wonderful new feed stimulant for honey bees made of essential oils such as limeongrass oil and spearment oil.
 
Welcome to Long Lane Honey Bee Farms

Hi, we are David & Sheri Burns and have made beekeeping our business. Check out our beekeeping lessons FREE! We'd love for you to get to know us so Read more about us.

Listen to our daily program,Studio BEE LIVE, where David & Sheri have fun talking about bees.

Order your hives NOW for the spring of 2010. We are now taking orders for packages and nucs and queens, so call us right a way at 217-427-2678

 Queens! We are proud to be able to offer queens for sale. We now do our own grafting and rearing of queens from our best hives. We have a few hives that are now into their third year suriving harsh northern winters. And, these hives have survived all pests and disease, including mites without any medication now for the last 2 years! We introduce new drones from other areas and use breeder queens to produce a strong queen. Our queens are selling fast!! If you want to try one of our queens, give us a call while supplies last.  Our queen bee order line is:

217-427-2678

LOOKING TO PURCHASE HONEY? Maybe you read about us in the paper and want to buy honey online...read more

We also provide ONLINE BEEKEEPING LESSON--FREE! Check it out at: http://basicbeekeeping.blogspot.com/

DID YOU KNOW the Honeybees have to fly 55,000 miles to produce one pound of honey? Read more interesting facts about the honeybee...read more

Beekeeping is a blast! I suppose bees have been falsely portrayed as "killler bees" taking over homes and whole cities. That's Hollywood, not reality. Anyone can keep bees. It's easy. Most beekeepers find their bees to be very calm and workable. Sometimes, I just sit by my hives, and watch the bees work, flying in and out. It's therapeutic.
 
Our long range goal is to operate 4,000 hives, raise and sell queens and packaged bees. I am currently attempting to breed a special Illinois survival stock queen. Wouldn't it be something to able to breed a queen that is resistant toward the cause(s) of CCD!

To help finance the increase in the number of our hives we manufacture beehive wooden ware. We make hives, supers, frames, feeders and more. In 2007 we've shipped to 47 states! Everyday, UPS backs up to our shop and loads up more hives going out to new or expanding beekeepers around the country. We've even shipped to Hawaii! One of our complete hives weighs around 70 pounds. Some days we've shipped out over 500 pounds of hives! We also provide beekeeping equipment such as electrical hot uncapping knives, micron honey filters, protective clothing, smokers, hive tools, fume boards and fume and the whole works!!

Not only do we sell honey, but we also melt and mold our own beeswax. People love to buy pure beeswax. It smells so good and can be used for making candles, lotion, lip balm, and lubricating bows or sticky drawers--just to name a few of its many uses. After processing the honey supers, we have a lot of wax cappings left over. These cappings make the finest, and newest beeswax. They are washed thoroughly to remove any honey from the wax. We repeat this wash cycle several times.

Then, we melt our wax the old fashion way. We simply melt it in a large pan on the family's grill. Here's how we get our grill going good to melt our wax. Seems like a few steaks and some chicken gets the fire good and ready to melt the wax. Of course, the fire is only ready about the time I have finished my steak dinner. After all, there's no need to let all that good charcoal go to waste, right! Who needs to buy an expensive wax melter when you can have such a good excuse for eating steak!




After the wax melts, I allow the more solid matter within the wax to sink to the bottom of the pan. Then, I pour it into another container that has a cloth filter on the top. From this container, I am now ready to pour the wax into my various shaped molds. It hardens very fast, then it pops out real easy. It is then wrapped and sold, locally or through our Internet stores.

So you can see why I ask, "Why doesn't everyone keep bees?"

 

 

 

 

 

We also manufacture beekeeping equipment such as beehives. We sell every possible beekeeping supplies you need! This year we are also  selling package bees and queens! Read more...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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