Warm & Cozy Market - October 24, 2020

We are so super excited to be hosting our October Warm & Cozy Online Market!!!

On October 24 from 12pm - 3pm MST you can visit us LIVE on Facebook and here on our website. Join us to have an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at how we prepare our bees for Canadian winters and bear protection, meet our staff, get to know Bubbles & Balms, the makers of our soap and we have a new Flavour Announcement! Of course we have some fun Giveaways and Promotions planned too. Be sure to use the form at the bottom, or live chat with us to be entered in to win!

RSVP to let us know you're coming. Invite your friends and spread the word.
Remember, the more you participate, the more chances you have to win.

We can also be reached via call/text 403-915-0454 or email sales@foreverbee.ca

Thanksgiving and the arrival of fall have given us the wonderful opportunity to take a step back, be present in the season and consider what we’re so grateful for in our lives.

This is what our beautiful team said were their favourite things about fall:
- The beautiful colours
- Fall flavours
- The smell of pumpkin spice in the air
- The bounty from honey harvest season
- Sweater and boots weather
- No mosquitos!!
- Warm cuddles
- Evening walks
- Milder temperatures

And when we reflected on what we’re most grateful for, a few things kept coming up 😊 Family, friendship, working together in a great, fun workplace as a wonderful team, and the opportunity to have a job and grow a special business even through the challenges Covid-19 has thrown at us all this year.

So now it’s your turn! 😊 What do you love most about fall? And what are you most grateful for?

Send your answers to us for an entry into the prize!
Call/Text us at 403-915-0454
Email us at sales@foreverbee.ca

Come along for a sneak peek at our workshop. Watch our team hard at work and see where all your favourite goodies are made. This is where the magic happens!

GIVEAWAY!!
Would you like to win your very own jar of flavoured honey? Comment down below what you'd like to know more about in our operation; how we make our flavoured honey, behind the scenes, what happens in beekeeping? Let us know!

Send your answers to us for an entry into the prize!
Call/Text us at 403-915-0454
Email us at sales@foreverbee.ca

Get your raw, flavoured honey here!

Come along and meet our new soap makers Bubbles & Balms. We’re SO excited to have them on board and can’t wait to introduce you to the most beautiful soaps around!

GIVEAWAY!!
One lucky guest will win a Bubbles & Balms gift pack! Bubbles & Balms is committed to making health and beauty more sustainable and eco-friendly - Comment below one way you'd like to make your health and beauty routine more environmentally friendly!
- Also, now is your chance to ask any questions you might have about natural product making.

Bubbles & Balms offers free shipping on all orders over $50, to purchase an array of sustainable bathing products from Bubbles & Balms 

Shop our other body products here
Call/Text: 403-915-0454
Email: sales@foreverbee.ca

Our bear attack sure has taken up much of our time, energy and resources this past week. We have been out to the field several times, talked to the land owners almost daily and enlisted the help of a bear biologist (Sarah), who specializes in human-bear coexistence.

Sarah owns a company in Canmore - SaraheConsulting.com - and she was kind enough to volunteer her time to help guide us through this episode. Sarah has made some great suggestions and will also be coming out to our field to get a closer look at the damage and what can be done in this and other fields to help prevent future attacks.

The latest news on this bee yard is that the 2 black bears keep coming back to eat what they can find. Some of the frames and honey were frozen to the ground so we could not pick it up, so they are eating those. They seem to be leaving the fence and other hives alone for now. We will be keeping a close eye though because according to Sarah, they can break down the fence if they are desperate enough.

When viewing this incident the most obvious damage is of course the broken hives, the dead bees and the broken frames. This damage extends for several seasons though because the damage that is not immediately seen is:

- All the honey that the bees collected through the winter is now gone. There is no more and even if we leave honey out for them to collect, it is too cold for them to gather that honey

- All the brood is lost for the next year

- Even though we might have saved some of the bees, they are in a completely weakened state now. Half of the bees we managed to save have already died. It will take a few months to see how many actually survived.

We will make sure to keep everyone updated on how this field is doing. I feel that most of you are strongly invested and deeply care about these bees now. So now it is all of our good wishes, care and love that will make this bee-yard thrive again.

Matt and I want to thank you all so much for your support this past week. The amount of loving and supportive emails, texts, Facebook messages we received was just heartwarming. We read every message - sometimes more than once - and we appreciate you all so much.

Ginger Honey is my absolute favourite flavoured honey! It’s spicy and full of flavour but doesn’t burn your mouth.

Spicy up your cooking with Ginger Honey. Or add it to a hot toddy on a cold evening. If you can’t resist, eat it off the spoon – we do!

We source the best quality ginger all the way from Sri Lanka to make sure every jar is absolutely delicious.

Check out how we bottle our honey!

GIVEAWAY!!
Keen to try our Ginger Honey? Comment below your favourite ways to use ginger honey! Our favourite is a delicious Ginger Honey Hot Toddy!
Find the recipe here

Can’t wait? Get your Ginger Honey here:
Shop Ginger Honey

Call/Text: 403-915-0454
Email: sales@foreverbee.ca

These beautiful pictures were taken by Kira on her very first visit to our beehives. It is always fun to see how these ladies are bringing home the pollen.

When they collect the pollen from the flowers, they stuff the pollen into pollen bags on their back legs. This makes it easier for them to fly with all of that pollen. They use the pollen to make bee bread with. Bee bread is a mixture of pollen, honey and a special enzyme the bees secrete. This mixture then ferments and is called Bee Bread. It is very healthy and provides the bees with all their protein and nutrients.

Bee pollen is an incredible natural food and only a teaspoon a day is necessary to reap its many benefits (and that teaspoon contains over 2.5 billion grains of flower pollen that took a busy little bee 8 hours to collect!). We collect it 3 weeks out of the year from our strongest hives.

Bee pollen is approximately 40% protein and contains nearly every nutrient needed by the human body and cannot be replicated by a laboratory (though they have tried!).

Bee Pollen's many benefits include:

- A substantial energy boost
- Relieves symptoms of seasonal allergies and asthma
- A boost to your digestive system with the help of naturally occurring enzymes
- A host of over 90 vitamins and minerals that are readily available and easily absorbed
- It improves the intestinal flora and has a natural antibiotic effect in the body that boosts the immune system
- It restores hormonal balance and helps to eliminate cravings and fight addictions
- Cardiovascular health in terms of lowering cholesterol, improving circulation and strengthening blood vessels

*Note that if you are allergic to bee stings, it is not recommended that you consume bee pollen!* However, if you have Seasonal Allergies we highly recommend that you try Bee Pollen :)

GIVEAWAY!!!
We’ll be giving away a 175g jar of bee pollen to a commenter this afternoon, so make sure to ask your questions or share why you love our pollen!!!
Tell us how which natural remedies you love to use in order to stay healthy this winter.

To shop for bee pollen click here.
Call/text: 403-915-0454
email: sales@foreverbee.ca

Hi everybody!!
We - the Forever Bee family - just wanted to take a minute to thank each and every one of you that participated in our Warm & Cozy online Market! Our business would be nothing without the support of our amazing community! In the recent weeks your love, support, and well wishes have helped us make it through our recent bear attacks on our hives and have enabled us to keep our hard working little bees safe! We cannot thank you enough!

We'd like to also take a moment to give a huge shout out to our production collaborators, Bubbles & Balms for helping us create beautiful, sustainable soaps, and for working with us to put on our October online market. We'd also like to thank Greenway Couriers; they are a small, local business that we have been working with in order to deliver all of your amazing orders to your door in the Calgary area!

We cannot wait for our next LIVE online market and for more chances to hear from all of you! But until then, here is a quick list of all the markets you can find us at for the next month, and when we will be delivering to your city next!

Markets:
Saturday Oct 31: Lethbridge Exhibition Market 9AM-2PM
Friday/ Saturday Nov 6/7: Airdrie Christmas Show
Saturday Nov.7 : Crossfield Christmas Market

Deliveries:
Tues Oct. 27: Calgary, High River, Nanton, Stavely, Claresholm, Fort Macleod, Monarch, Nobleford, Coalhurst, Champion, Vulcan
Wed. Oct 28:Lethbridge, Coaldale
Thurs. Oct. 29: Banff, Canmore & surrounding areas
Friday Oct. 30:Okotoks, Calgary, Airdrie, Cochrane, Chestermere.

For any questions or to place an order feel free to message our page, email sales@foreverbee.ca, or call/text 403-915-0454. To place an order, visit https://foreverbee.ca/ or use any of the points of contact above!

You can also find updated weekly market and delivery schedules here