Beehive Hosting in Myers Park
Professionally managed beehives for one of Charlotte's most naturally rich neighborhoods. Mature canopy, exceptional foraging, the privacy to do it right. We handle the bees. You get the honey.
A real hive, tended monthly, by a real beekeeper
One flat monthly fee covers everything from install through harvest. The same program in Myers Park as on every other Carolina property we manage. Here's what's included.
The hive, the bees, the gear
All the woodenware, a marked queen, and 10,000+ worker bees raised from a Carolina mother colony. Placed on your property in a single visit.
Monthly hive visits
Every 2 to 4 weeks a beekeeper opens the hive — checks the queen's laying pattern, runs a sugar shake test for mites, weighs the honey stores. We log every visit. You're welcome to suit up and stand beside us.
Honey every year — guaranteed
Every host has first rights to up to 1.5 gallons of honey from their hive each year. If your hive falls short, we supplement from our other Carolina hives so you've got jars on hand. If it overproduces, you keep the lion's share — the small portion we keep goes straight to other hosts whose hives came up short. Nobody goes without.
Done-for-you backyard hives
The first time you stand next to an open hive in your own Myers Park backyard — really stand there, watching ten thousand bees work the tulip poplars and dogwoods — something shifts. We set up the hive, return for 14 to 18 visits a year, and send you a short field report after each one. Your job is to walk out into the garden sometimes and watch.
- A safe placement — most Myers Park yards have several great options: behind a garden bed, the back edge of the lot, a quiet corner under the canopy
- Install March through August. Harvest May–June. Winter wrap before Thanksgiving.
- Direct text line to your beekeeper for any question, any season
Bring bees to your Charlotte business
Right now, the most direct way for a Charlotte business to support bees is to sponsor a hive in our shared commercial apiary just outside the city — nine spots remain. Your team gets quarterly field reports, custom-labeled honey at harvest, and a standing invitation to suit up for a hive visit. When your campus or rooftop is ready for an on-site hive, we'll bring one to you.
- A sponsored hive in our shared Charlotte apiary — your bees, our hands
- Custom-labeled honey at harvest, for clients, gifts, and team experiences
- Quarterly field reports, hive tours, and on-site team workshops
Healthy hives. Buzzing hosts. Blooming communities.
Get close to nature
Join us as we inspect your colony and connect with the natural world around you in a new way.
Get local honey
Once a year, we harvest honey from your hive and bottle it for you. That's as local as it gets.
Make a meaningful impact
Hosting fees fund the free school visits, community talks, and public events we run across Charlotte. Every dollar supports the bees and the people learning about them.
Be part of a community
Join 100+ local pollinator advocates who care about our mission.
Three steps from curious to hosting
Property Assessment
We'll help you find a safe location on your Charlotte property where your bees will thrive.
Hive Installation
Invite your friends and neighbors to watch as we introduce the bees.
Year-Round Maintenance
We'll visit every 2 to 4 weeks to check on the health of the colony. You're always welcome to join.
One flat fee. No surprises.
Includes everything: the hive, the bees, every visit, the harvest, and the honey. 12-month commitment, then month-to-month. A portion of every fee funds the free school visits and community talks we run across Charlotte.
The turnkey hive
A managed beehive on your Charlotte property. We handle every part of the work — from install (March through August) to harvest (May–June). Year one, while your colony settles in, we send honey from our other Carolina hives so you've got jars on hand right away.
- Complete hive setup — all the woodenware, frames, queen, and a healthy colony of local bees
- 14 to 18 on-site visits per year by a trained beekeeper
- Sugar shake mite testing, treatment, requeening, and winter prep
- Up to 1.5 gallons of honey each year — supplemented from our Carolina hives if your hive comes up short. Overproduction beyond 1.5 gal: you keep the lion's share; we keep 10–15% for hosts whose hives fell short
- Direct text line to your beekeeper for any question, any time
- An open invitation to suit up and join every visit
Myers Park was made for beekeeping
The trees do the work
There's a reason Myers Park has felt like one of Charlotte's most cherished neighborhoods for over a century: the trees. The towering oaks, the rows of dogwoods and cherry trees along Queens Road, the mature magnolias and tulip poplars that line virtually every block — Myers Park's canopy is one of the most productive foraging environments for honey bees in Mecklenburg County.
When a colony is installed in a Myers Park backyard, it doesn't have to travel far. The neighborhood's tulip poplars — among the tallest and most productive honey plants in the Southeast — bloom in April and May, triggering the single most important nectar flow of the Charlotte beekeeping year. Dogwood and cherry follow close behind. Through summer, the mature residential gardens along Queens Road and Roswell Avenue provide a continuous diverse buffet. Freedom Park, minutes from most properties, extends the foraging range into rich undisturbed ecosystem.
The honey reflects the neighborhood: a record of the old trees, the cultivated gardens, and one of Charlotte's most iconic landscapes.
Room to do it right
Myers Park's generous lot sizes and mature landscaping make Host-a-Hive practical as well as productive. Most properties have plenty of suitable placement options — tucked behind a garden bed, at the back edge of the lot, in a quiet corner of a screened garden. The mature tree lines between properties provide natural screening, and the neighborhood's culture of privacy and genteel coexistence means most hosts find their bees go completely unnoticed by neighbors.
Myers Park is consistently one of our highest-performing Carolina locations for hive health and honey production. The combination of exceptional forage, established habitat, and ideal lot configurations makes it as close to perfect as urban beekeeping gets — and we have spots open for spring 2026.
Book a free Myers Park assessment →You can host and let them do everything, or you can learn from them at all levels. I originally hosted a hive to help boost the failing honeybee population — no bees = no food — and got the wonderful benefit of more flowers from my flowering plants than I had seen in years.
Questions, answered
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Myers Park, meet your beekeeper
An assessment takes about 45 minutes. One of our beekeepers walks your Myers Park property with you, marks two or three placement candidates under the canopy, and answers every question you've got. We write up the notes the same evening. No pressure, no commitment, no charge.
Book a free Myers Park assessment →