Family-run apiary and social project in the Kootenays
WILD HONEY APIARY
AND HONEYBEE SANCTUARY
Meet our team
We work every day so our clients can have healthy and very tasty honey and honey products
Andrey Anderson
The head of operations, founder of Creamy-Bello and Wild Honey Aiary
Svetlana Anderson
Human Resources and Marketing, Designer
Andrew Anderson
Chief Taster and very motivated helper
Zahar Anderson
The helper of the Chief Taster and motivation leader
Poplar Creek is a tiny community along Lardeau River on the outskirts of Goat Range Provincial Park in the Kootenays (BC). It's not a typical place in the middle of nowhere. We work every day gathering one of the best honeys in the world and creating tasty and healthy desserts for you. We are having fun!
2011
How it all started
Beekeeping for Andrey is a family tradition. His father taught him the basic concepts of beekeeping. Furthermore Andrey was greatly inspired by traditional beekeeping techniques of Bashkir people from Siberia as well as other beekeepers from his homeland - the northern coast of Black Sea.
We bought our tiny property in Poplar Creek in 2011. We loved the place for its wilderness. Unspoiled, unruined, all super-natural super-beautiful British Columbia with it's mountains, lakes and valleys, what a great place to live in.
We've had bees for a few years now. We were truly amazed by the quality and very unusual taste of honey that our bees shared with us in Poplar Creek.
We've had bees for a few years now. We were truly amazed by the quality and very unusual taste of honey that our bees shared with us in Poplar Creek.
2014
Our apiary is growing
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What can we do so we can live here?
Believe it or not, it took us a couple of years to figure out what we can do so we can live there.
Beekeeping! It was the most natural and unusual answer.
Andrey is working on developing our apiary, experimenting and adapting different beekeeping techniques so the bees are managed in the most natural way. Our bees are happy and not stressed.
Beekeeping! It was the most natural and unusual answer.
Andrey is working on developing our apiary, experimenting and adapting different beekeeping techniques so the bees are managed in the most natural way. Our bees are happy and not stressed.
2017
Creamy-Bello is born
Our social project
Our social project
2017 brought significant changes. All bees are in Warre beehives now. We have built an apihouse where the bees are kept year-round. We have created a new honey product Creamy-Bello. It was very important to figure out the right combination of honey and berries.
We created the first crowd-funding campaign on FundRazr. We asked for $100,000 which we thought would be enough for the first stage of our project: building a shop, buying special equipment and building of the production line.
We created the first crowd-funding campaign on FundRazr. We asked for $100,000 which we thought would be enough for the first stage of our project: building a shop, buying special equipment and building of the production line.
Our project is social. Our intentions are:
- creating jobs
- re-uniting people
- making the region very attractive for young people and families
Andrey
To learn more about our fundraising campaign and/or donate please visit FundRazr
END of 2017
HoneyBee Sanctuary
Numerous disturbing reports are pouring in: Honeybees (as well as other pollinators) are in great danger. The main reason: deadly poisons used by modern agriculture.
West Kootenays
We are very fortunate to have no commercial agriculture in the West Kootenays. The land is not polluted by deadly chemicals.
Our mountains are covered with undisturbed meadows and forest.
A very important decision has been made: to create a HoneyBee Sanctuary. We believe we have the greatest opportunity to protect, heal and strengthen honeybees in our region.
We also would like to introduce honeybee healing powers to people.
Our mountains are covered with undisturbed meadows and forest.
A very important decision has been made: to create a HoneyBee Sanctuary. We believe we have the greatest opportunity to protect, heal and strengthen honeybees in our region.
We also would like to introduce honeybee healing powers to people.
The Kootenay Bee:
The main objective is to find, select and breed bees that would thrive in our severe climate naturally without any treatment.
IT'S NOT THE END
Let's write this story together. Please support our project!
