Everything you need to start your beekeeping journey.
We provide conditions in which bees find their own natural solutions through minimal interference.
Our methods foster bee welfare and facilitate bees’ natural behaviors while working within their limits.
Based out of Cincinnati, we offer in-person support, education and local overwintered nucs and queens.
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Find a full range of products and services to support backyard hobbyist who want to keep bees on a modest scale.
Whether you’re just getting started or looking to make the change to more natural and sustainable beekeeping, we have the equipment and training you need.
Check out our blog where you will find the research and seasonal instructions to help you become a more informed and knowledgeable beekeeper.
During the beekeeping season, join us each month for our in-person apiary walk or online Zoom meeting where we share with the Wild Hives Community timely insights and management practices.
Wild Hives offers seasonal events, training classes, equipment choices, and other helpful items as you grow your backyard apiary.
Join us each month for a one hour Zoom meeting in which timely topics, equipment suggestions, Layens specific management practices and experience will be shared and discussed with our Wild Hives Community.
Just click the registration button, fill out the form and a Zoom link will be sent to you for the meeting.
It’s totally FREE.
We’d love to see you at the next meeting!
Fee: $25 per person. (Alternate rain date will be October 24th.)
Required: Veil/Personal Protection
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We will have time after the class to talk so bring a chair and something to drink and/or eat if you would like to stick around after the class.
No Restrooms Available.
The Varroa Resistance Initiative (VRI) is intended to support and facilitate a growing community of like-minded beekeepers broadly organized but locally working together to monitor and track for varroa resistant traits within their colonies and local member apiaries.
Next Zoom VRI Community Meeting: September 23rd (7-8pm EST)
Topic: Varroa Lifecycle/What is the current research?e/What is the current research
Consider becoming a member and joining our growing community of beekeepers. It’s totally FREE!
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2026 Field Day Schedule (weather permitting)
Join us each month from May to September for a two hour In-Person Field Day at our Bethel, Ohio Apiary. Our time will be spent in the hives discussing and working through management activities appropriate for that month so veils are required for you to attend. We also take time to sit and talk about whatever beekeeping questions you might have. So if you want, bring a lawn chair and some water and join us in the shade.
No sign up needed. We’d love to see you at our next Field Day.
Restroom facilities are not provided
Natural and Sustainable beekeeping starts here. With our apiary services, we help you move from novice to natural. An estimate of the service time will be provide prior to meeting with the customer based on the service type selected. All service costs will include round trip drive time.
Sonja and Rob’s beekeeping journey, not unlike many beekeepers, started with joining their local bee club, reading stacks of material, and seeking support. It wasn’t long before they realized they wanted to pursue a more natural and sustainable approach in their beekeeping while collecting only local honey bees and managing them in hives that closely mimicked their natural home. Click below to learn more about how their journey led to the formation of Wild Hives LLC and the growth of the Wild Hives Community.
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