Enterprise Beekeeping Program

Our Enterprise Beekeeping Program offers comprehensive beekeeping services and educational experiences, helping your business make a positive environmental impact. By partnering with us, you'll not only engage your community but also contribute to sustainability efforts, earning green building credits along the way.

Tailored for Safety and Sustainability
We prioritize the safety of your community by conducting a thorough site assessment to determine the ideal location for the bee colonies—one that ensures safety for the community while providing an optimal environment for the bees. Typically, we place 2-3 honey bee colonies on each site, allowing our beekeepers to maintain stronger, healthier populations. Our full-service program includes monthly maintenance visits, along with all necessary equipment, supplemental feed, and treatments to ensure the colonies thrive.

Supporting Wild Bees with Native Habitat
In addition to honey bee management, we offer the installation and upkeep of wild bee homes. Wild, solitary bees typically nest in the ground or in plant cavities. Our bee houses provide safe spaces for these essential pollinators, helping to counteract the loss of natural habitats due to urbanization. Since wild bees only travel short distances to forage, we complement the bee houses with pollinator-friendly gardens, enriching local biodiversity and beautifying your property for tenants and guests to enjoy. For campuses that are not suitable for hosting honey bees, wild bee homes are an excellent alternative to support local pollinators.

Advancing Environment Awareness and Creating Community Engagement
Our interactive workshops and presentations offer tenants unique and unforgettable experiences. Whether it's the Hive Show and Tell, “To Bee” or “Not to Bee” Trivia, Hive box painting, Planting for Pollinators, or our most popular Honey Harvesting Workshop, each event brings the community together in a fun and meaningful way. These activities highlight the importance of pollinators and environmental stewardship, strengthen support for sustainability initiatives, and promote team-building. The frequency and type of engagement activities can be tailored to meet the needs of each campus community.

Benefits

Enhance & Diversify Environmental Strategies

  • Biodiversity Support: Bees play a crucial role in pollination, essential for the growth of many plants and crops. With our Enterprise Beekeeping Program, businesses can help to improve the health of their immediate environment through increasing biodiversity and improving local flora.

  • Meet Sustainability Goals: Bee colonies can contribute to carbon offset programs or environmental certifications, such as LEED green building points, which may convey tax incentives.

Create Meaningful Connections

  • Demonstrate commitment to community and environment in a visible and tangible way.

  • Attract and Delight visitors, tenants, and guests with unique, delightful natural amenity that bee colonies offer while increasing brand loyalty.

  • Engage and Educate your community with interactive events and hands-on experiences such as honey harvesting and live hive demonstrations.

  • Enjoy custom-branded jars of local honey. Order co-branded jars of honey with your business logo to impress all on your corporate gifting list.

Why PachaMama Bees? 

Local expertise
Beekeeping is a hyperlocal activity. Our beekeepers live in the community, know the seasons, and understand Central Texas beekeeping.

 Organic, sustainable practices
Implementing research-driven practices, we strive to always do what’s best for our pollinators. We collect and share beekeeping data with our partners, the USDA and other research initiatives.

 Prioritize safety for bees and people
Safety is paramount for humans and bees to coexist. We use the more gentle, docile honey bee breeds and requeen when necessary to control colony temperament. Additionally, we always provide protective gear for participants during our live hive presentations.

 Customizable programing
We offer tailored programming to fit unique circumstance, interest, and goals.

 Professional and fully insured
Additionally insured certificates available.

Support local business and local environment
The world needs bees to live, and beekeepers need to make a living. PachaMama Bees is a woman-owned, business, operated and managed from Austin. We are deeply invested in our local environment and the preservation of pollinators.