NJ Nucleus Colonies

When making NJ Local Nucleus Colonies while coming into spring we take frames of new brood and eggs from strong New World Carniolan hives, which have made it through the winter, and move them to small 5-frame boxes and then add an overwintered New World Carniolan queen. We make sure …

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E&M Gold Beekeepers Story

We just updated our E&M Gold Beekeepers Story on our  Local Harvest and Honey Locator pages with the following information: Hello, we are Ed and Mary Kosenski from E&M Gold Beekeepers, a family NJ beekeeping business, which produces local raw honey & naturally selects strong honeybees and honeybee queens. We began our beekeeping …

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Creating Beeswax candles for the Holidays

For the last couple of weeks Mary has picked up her pace with pouring and creating beeswax candles for the upcoming Holidays. She has poured Pine Cones, Evergreen Trees, Mini-Floating Heart , Snowmen and Honeybee Pillar Beeswax candles. And she expects this activity to continue up to Thanksgiving! In addition she …

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New Beeswax Snowflake Floating Candles

Beeswax Snowflake Floating Candle

In nature, no two snowflakes are exactly alike. So we have captured one perfect, pretty snowflake design for our newest winter-themed floating candle joining E&M Gold’s collection of natural beeswax figurine candles, enhancing our variety of holiday-perfect candles for gifts and décor. We know that some people on your gift list may be hard to shop for, and that the holidays will likely have you looking for the perfect, inexpensive gifts for everyone on your holiday shopping list.

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E&M Gold Beekeepers New Honeybee Video

View our new Honeybee Video We’re so delighted with this wonderful Honeybee video featuring E+M Wedding Favors’ own Mary, our bee yard, and our delicious raw NJ honey and all-natural beeswax products for wedding favors and baby shower favors. Our friend Jon Peters of Jon Peters Art and Home created this gorgeous …

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Honey Large Holiday Gift Box

Beeswax Candle Collection Large Gift Box

Holiday Gift Guide Spotlight: NJ Raw Honey Large Gift Box Share the sweetness of NJ raw honey in Spring and Summer Wildflower flavors, plus the warm glow of our beeswax taper candle and other assorted NJ-fresh goodies with the cheery holiday gift of our Honey Large Holiday Gift Box. When …

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2016 NJ Honeybee Queens

This summer we will offer 2016 NJ Honeybee Queens including Carniolan and VSH Queens for sale from June through early August. Mary normally begins her grafting operation usually the 1st week of May. We let our young queens open-mate and make certain they have a good laying pattern before we sell them. …

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We have harvested 3000 pounds of Honey

Our bees have rewarded us with extra honey this summer; so far we have harvested 3000 pounds of honey. Right now we are taking a break from Honey harvesting and are putting our efforts towards getting our hives and winter nucs ready for the upcoming winter.

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NJ Honeybee Project begins 11th year

looking at honey bee splits

Our NJ Honeybee Project is beginning its 11th year. So far this season we received our Sue Cobey Breeder queen and we are happy to report she is in her new hive and laying. Later in June we will be adding to our breeding program four VSH daughter queens from …

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Help your new queen get accepted

This is a good short story on why you may need to be prepared to help your new queen get accepted. Last week we knew our new Sue Cobey NWC Breeder (#4) was expected any day, but were waiting for the tracking info, so we could be prepared in advance for …

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Beekeeping Business Goals for 2014

Now that Ed has retired we have begun enlarging our operation to 200 hives. In addition we are reworking our business and marketing plans to reflect our new business goals. Lastly we are continuing our queen rearing operation and next year our goal is to produce 1,000 queens. Since 2003 …

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