Welcome to Sun Mountain Apiary 2026
Just a short update today… While our spring harvest was very disappointing, the bees have been catching up, and our next harvest should be substantially better. We will begin pulling the honey supers at the end of the month with hopefully everything extracted by the first week of September.
A combination of a smaller harvest than normal, pent-up demand, our first theft, and generally a lot of traffic in the store, has left us temporarily with rather limited honey supplies. Our opening day was very busy this year and was one of three where entire shelves were bought out at a time. We only have comb (including cut comb), 1, 2 and 3 lb jars in stock right now and some of those are getting depleted. If you would like larger sizes, we should have those back in stock around the first week in September, so no need to rush over and buy up what is there now. I have been extremely busy this summer (a good thing for me at the moment) and apologize for the scarcity of my emails. I am hoping that as things settle down this fall I will be able to do a better job. Bee Well, Bob Cornell Certified Master Beekeeper 
This jig keeps the supers (boxes) square while they are assembled.
These are all great projects while the weather is a bit sour, but in the remaining couple of weeks it is imperative I go through all the hives to check on their health, strength, do remaining cleaning, and any manipulations that are warranted. The first honey supers are put on about May 1 and sometimes even a bit earlier depending on the weather. Those honey supers also need to get cleaned and prepped before that happens.
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The jig above lets me assemble about 19 frames at a time.
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In 2020 we went through the testing and inspection process to become a “NY Grown and Certified Honey Producer.” While all claim their honey is pure, and bees are the best, we decided to back the claims up with the documentation and inspections that prove we have healthy hives, excellent sanitation in extraction, and nothing but pure, raw NY local honey.
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Sun Mountain Apiary
127 Marcus Road Delanson, NY 12053 Bob Muller Cornell Certified Master Beekeeper [email protected] |
