Pollinators, Honey and Engagement for Guests, Visitors and Customers
Bring life to your property with honey bees. A visual commitment to sustainability with opportunities to connect your community to nature through engagement, education, and delicious honey from your own hives.
A Trusted Partner for Leading Hospitality Properties Across the US
We provide beekeeping services to over 500+ hives for our corporate clients in a range of industries, including Commercial and Residential Property Management, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Consumer Products, Education, Hospitality and Retail.
Notable Sites Across the US
A colorful, custom painted Best Bees hive on the rooftop of a Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts Boston hotel.
Beehives provide hospitality and retail properties with fresh, raw, local honey.
A pollinator program adds value to sustainability efforts.
Beehives thrive on rooftops, flying up to five miles to forage for pollen.
Hives on top of the 1 Hotel in San Francisco, overlooking the Ferry Building.
Expert beekeepers tend to hives with cutting-edge beekeeping practices.
Bring Fascinating Workshops & Engagement Programs to Your Community
Looking to engage your community through memorable events and integrating your own honey into gifts or food and beverage? Our custom Hospitality Pollinator Program brings a fresh take on what it can look like to learn, engage and create incredible memories on your property.
Programing includes:
- Co-branded bottled honey
- Custom branded beehives
- Meet your beekeeper events
- Scientific keynote presentations on issues related to pollinator health
- And more!
Custom beehive on the roof of the Four Seasons Hotel.
Co-labeled honey between Best Bees and a client.
Honey tastings are popular events.
Set up eye-catching displays.
Friendly bee experts to answer questions.
Hive tours allow an in-person intro to the bees.
Co-Branded Best Bees honey.
All events are attended with enthusiasm.
Biodiversity & Sustainability with Best Bees
As leading hospitality companies and businesses invest more time and resources in ESG, they are learning that there’s a strong link between biodiversity and sustainability. The relationship between the two is simple: biodiversity creates a virtuous circle, where the more species that exist in an ecosystem, the healthier the environment.
Pollinator diversity is critical to this biodiverse virtuous circle: a wide variety of pollinators means that more species of plants can be pollinated; greater plant diversity supports all forms of life, including animals, fungi and bacteria.
Hospitality Pollinator Program Offerings
Leveraging Hospitality Properties to Bring Cities from Gray to Green
Our basic Hospitality pollinator program includes multi-site hive installation, monthly hive management by our beekeepers, monthly reports on your hives’ health, and jarred honey harvested from your hives.
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- Professional site evaluation
- Hand-crafted beehive equipment
- Colonies of docile honeybees
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- Consultation on healthy pollinator habitat
- Monthly beehive visits by expert beekeepers
- Reports on the health of your hives after each visit
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- Fresh harvested honey from your hives
- Engaging events
- Sustainability Reporting
Safe
Our honeybees, Apis mellifera ligustica, are the most docile species of honeybees, making our hives extremely safe and the instance of stings very unlikely.
Insured
We have a full insurance policy and can provide a Certificate of Insurance (COI) easily.
Experienced
Our beekeepers are trained to work safely in densely populated urban areas. This includes on balconies, rooftops, and skyscrapers.
FOUNDED WITH A VISION FOR A HEALTHIER PLANET
Best Bees is passionate about the environment, and is dedicated to realizing a vision of a sustainable future with healthy, green cities. Since our inception in 2010, we have expanded our focus beyond honeybee management to wider ESG strategies and biodiversity initiatives.
DRIVEN BY SCIENCE
Through observation of thousands of hives under our care and collaboration with our scientific partners like MIT, NASA and the Urban Bee Lab, we field tests of new treatments, read the results, and share our findings with the scientific community, the beekeeping community, and the public.
RUN BY A DIVERSE TEAM
Best Bees is a young, innovative organization, founded by entrepreneurs from the science, art, and technology fields.
We’re proud to be a diverse company, employing many people of color and people from the LGBTQ+ community. We are proud to be a Certified LGBTBE Business Enterprise®.
