Honeyview Farm

It is a great honour to have Honeyview Farm participate in the BIKE THE BLOSSOMS tour.  Honeyview farm is the largest apiary in BC, with hives located in the Fraser Valley and Northern Alberta.  In total, they manage approximately 2500 hives and produce over 100,000 kg of honey each year.

Their Fraser Valley farm, located in Rosedale, supplies an all-important service to the berry farms. A lot of intensive work goes into making the bee colonies strong enough to pollinate the blueberry flowers which bloom early. Every available hive gets moved into the berry fields and later in the season they’re moved to raspberry and cranberry fields. Good pollination ensures not only more berries but larger and well formed ones. 

Every fall the honey is collected from the hives.  Honeyview farm extracts the honey from their hives at their farm location.  The extraction room is glassed in so visitors can observe this interesting process.  Some of the honey is sold in bulk to overseas markets (the blueberry honey is prized by the Japanese, for example).  In addition, they sell honey in jars at their farm and through some farm market outlets.  Honeyview farm adds a variety of unique flavours to their honey giving us espresso honey, cinnamon honey, raspberry honey, cranberry honey and more. 

Honeyview farm will have a large variety of uniquely flavoured honey to sample.  They will also have a portable, live, demonstration hive on hand so that you can see what bees do inside a hive, without the fear of being stung by the bees.  They will have some of the special beekeepers clothing on display as well.  You can try on a bee veil – it’s good for wasps and mosquitoes too.  Come and learn about the fascinating life of bees and try the delicious honey of Honeyview Farm at the BIKE THE BLOSSOMS tour.