Beekeeping has over the years outcompeted many business ventures as the most lucrative and easy to adopt businesses. Many Kenyans have retired from their full time employment and have reverted to their hives. In Kenya today the best consultant when it comes to bee keeping is Savannah Honey a Kenyan owned company that not only trains you on profitable apiculture but also give you the best equipment you need to get a higher return on investment  from your bee hives. Through their contact +254 721965337 you will be able to get a discount as a bizna reader. With Savannah honey your eyes will be opened to the vast opportunity in beekeeping. From hives, protective gear, honey harvesters among others start your apiculture journey seamlessly with Savannah Honey.

Savannah Honey is the leading apiculture farming equipment supplier in East Africa that not only helps you start your bee keeping agribusiness but also provides market for you by buying honey from its farmers.

The langstroth beehive is a movable frame beehive. Invented in the 1850’s by an American named Reverend Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth. It consists of stackable boxes that can be moved around and adjusted to suit the colony’s growth.  Principles of langstroth hive include:

1. To start, there is the bottom box where the main colony lives. This is where the Queen bee lives. She lays eggs and grows the colony size. This box is commonly called the brood box.
2. At the bottom is a base board and on top goes the lid to shelter the bees inside.
3. Once the colony grows and expands in size, a honey super box is put on top with a Queen excluder in between. This prevents the Queen from going up into the honey super and so worker bees will go up and build honeycomb and store honey there.
4. As the colony grows larger, more honey super can be stacked up on top. You can see some beehives stacked up with 3-4 honey supers.
5. When the bees have filled a super with honey, it is ready for harvesting. A beekeeper can then put a bee escape underneath where the bees can escape from the super but they cannot return. So when the beekeeper returns after a few days, there will be no bees in the honey super and the box is easily lifted off and taken away to harvest. When the supers are taken off, the brood box needs to be inspected, check the Queen and any honey frames transferred to a super box.
6. Between the base board and the brood box, some beekeepers like to use a pollen collector. It consists of an entrance with misaligned mesh to dislodge pollen from the bees back and legs as it enters the beehive. There is a sliding tray underneath that catches the pollen to be collected.

  This is by no means a complete instruction on how to use this type of beehive but simply to give you an overview of the principle on it works.

Why langstroth hive?

Since Langstroth hives are the most common hive style in North America, one major perk is that there are a lot of accessories and resources at your disposal. It’s a relatively inexpensive hive style, so it’s a great option for those aiming to have a large apiary with multiple hives. It is arguably the best hive design for honey production due to large box sizes. It does require heavy lifting, with boxes ranging from 30-100 pounds, so it’s not the ideal hive if you’re limited in mobility. Finally, the hive style features 4 sided frames which contain the comb in a stable way.

Advantages of using a Langstroth hive

• Most available resources of any hive style.

• Hives are made to an industry standard, so hive components can be mixed and matched between suppliers.
• Many accessories and upgrades are available.
• 4 sided frames provide comb stability.
• High honey yield.
• Easy to inspect and harvest.
• Easy to control swarming.
• Bee breeding and queen rearing possible.
• Transportable and long lasting.

Please note: Savannah Honey will deliver the hives, install, offer technical support including colony division, colony strengthening and re-queening. They also provide their clients with 5 years contract for the bee pollen @6,800 per kg, propolis @1900 per kg, royal jelly @38,000 per kg , wax @700 per kg , honey@500 per kg ands bee venom @ 4000 per gram.

Description of Project Activities

• Site Surveys: Savannah’s technical team visits potential beekeeping sites to identify and determine the suitability to establishment of an apiary to our potential clients. We work with our clients on determining the best sites for the enterprise considering proximity to homesteads and institutions, water and forage cover
• Professional Installations

Savannah trained apiarists help our clients in installation of the hives in trapping zones to facilitate colonization as well as install apiary stands required according to the number of hives to be hung.

• Training Services

Beekeepers are lifelong learners – it seems like there is always something new we can learn from other beekeepers and from the bees themselves. We train all our clients on apiary management, bee behaviour, colonization, and harvesting and honey extraction. This training enables our clients to gain skills on modern beekeeping which guarantees success.

• Technical Support                                                                                                                                      We ensure the success of our clients’ apiaries through provision of colony division for the colonized hives, Colony strengthening for the weak colonies and Re-queening for the dominant queens. All these are technical services each valued at more than USD$ 200 but to our contracted farmers/groups, the service if of charge.
• Market Provision.

We provide market to our clients through a 5 years contract for all the beekeeping products.

6.   Fruit Tree Farming

We support our clients to improve their environment for maximum production through planting of fruit trees. These fruit trees provide bees with the much needed forage (pollen and nectar), and they include Citrus fruits (oranges, lime, grapefruits etc.), Hass Avocado, Pomegranate, Macadamia, Mangoes (grafted) and Passion fruits. We contract the farmers for 15 years for the fruits

Contact Savannah Honey via:
Call: +254721965337/ 0724052975 / 0755121546
Email: [email protected]
Website: www. Savannahhoney.org

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1. Savannah Honey Advises On Contractual Beekeeping

2. We help farmers start commercial bee keeping, buy their honey

3. Money in honey: How your idle land can make you millions

4. Beekeeping: How to make millions from Propolis

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