Blue Sky Bee Supply Blog

Home to the busiest streets in America, cars lined bumper to bumper, herds of young professionals making their way through the surge of rush hour; New York City might be the last place you would think hundreds of colonies of honeybees would call home. Queens-based beekeeping master Nick Hoefly of Astor Apiaries shared with us his ongoing journey as a beekeeper on the rooftops of New York City.Nick is a certified master beekeeper and Apiary Manager of The Bee Conservancy, a nonprofit ba …

The benefits of beekeeping are endless. Everything from the honey we can collect, the surrounding crops that get pollinated, to the lifestyle that you adopt and the relationship you build with your colonies; it all changes your life in the best ways. Honeybee keeping is a very profitable hobby that is popular primarily in states within Middle America to the Midwest. Honey is not only a sweet, syrupy alternative to sugar, but it even provides many natural properties that can benefit human healt …