Hive-powered Canadian products

Experience the sweetness and wonder of bees and contribute to these makers’ efforts to help protect these precious pollinators.

BEEKEEPER’S NATURALS

Did you know bees themselves use propolis to protect the hive? It was this stand-up ingredient that finally gave Carly Stein relief for her own tonsilitis, and so began a quest to bring others effective bee medicine. Today, bestsellers from Beekeeper’s Naturals include Propolis Throat Spray, raw honey enhanced with royal jelly and pollen, and a pollen multivitamin.

Elias Honey

Everything is better with honey, but not just any honey. Elias Honey is 100% pure, apiary-fresh BC honey with incredible flavour.

Founder Dietrich Elias savoured every spoon of a pot of Canadian creamed honey sent to him in the 1940s before he left Western Europe for Canada. Today, Elias brings honeylovers everything from classic to creamed and gourmet blossom varieties to coldpressed.

Today, there’s so much more awareness about the importance of protecting our pollinators and our health. The European Union has banned the use of neonicotinoids. The Bee Cause project is leading a movement to inspire a generation of environmental stewards. Here in British Columbia, groups are lobbying for more land biodiversity and protected “pollinator pastures”.

What we also have going for us are the organic farms that are helping to keep bees alive.

The Fruits of the Organic Farmer’s Labour

If it were easy, more farms would do it. When organic farmers wake up early to water and weed and harvest in the field, they do it

EGYPTIAN MAGIC ®

Beeswax, honey, bee pollen, royal jelly and bee propolis make up five of the six ingredients in the all-natural Egyptian Magic cream. This multi-tasking wonder balm has been lauded by celebrities since the 1990s for its ability to soothe scars, nourish dry skin, tame frizz and hydrate parched lips.

Satya Eczema Relief

Those who know the itchiness and redness of eczema know that finding lasting comfort and confidence isn’t easy. Satya’s Eczema Easy Glide Stick uses beeswax, along with other botanical ingredients, to naturally soothe even the most sensitive skin. Plus, it’s refillable!

Honey Candles

Handcrafted in BC with love and 100% pure Canadian beeswax, Honey Candles bring any room a warm glow and that subtle beeswax aroma. Choose from pillars, votives, candlesticks and charming ornamental designs inspired by nature.

without pesticides, herbicides and some of the government subsidies afforded conventional farmers. Organic farmers are alone against the elements—heat waves, droughts and pests—as they passionately raise those juicy peaches or spears of asparagus.

But they do it anyway, because they believe in food security, biodiversity and feeding their communities fruits and vegetables that are as healthy and fresh as they are delicious. That’s good news for us, our pollinators and the earth.

Organic practices support bee health in two critical ways: One, it means less exposure to toxic chemicals used in industrial agriculture, especially those neonicotinoid insecticides. Two, because organic producers manage their farms in ways that maintain and improve natural resources, often becoming home to a diverse landscape of flowering plants, more native habitat is protected and biodiversity is preserved. The more plant diversity and sources of sufficient pollen and nectar, the better bees are at contributing to a thriving hive.

The Fruits of Bees

We take care of the bees, and the bees take care of us. Bees bring us wax and honey, one of nature’s sweetest ingredients. While honey is a tasty addition to toast and tea, it’s also highly beneficial—soothing coughs, healing burns, providing immune-boosting nutrients and more.