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Betterbee is located at 8 Meader Road in Greenwich, New York, a beautiful town just east of Saratoga Springs. Our store is a popular destination for beekeepers, gift shoppers and crafters. We also hold periodic beekeeping classes for beginner and intermediate beekeepers, as well as hosting a Field Day, with workshops and a guest speaker, at our county fair grounds in the summer.

Our store offers a large assortment of gift items including our own Betterbee hand creams, honey soaps, local honey, beeswax candles, honey straws, Shelburne cheddar, and our very popular honey candy that is made exclusively for Betterbee! Our showroom also features a large selection of beekeeping supplies, including Lyson and Maxant honey extractors and an ample selection of protective clothing.

For crafters, we have a large variety of candle molds and supplies for candle making, as well as kits and supplies for making soap and lip balm. We also offer supplies for making hand creams and salves. Betterbee offers 100% pure beeswax wax, in white and yellow.

Betterbee offers a wide selection of books for children and adults, on all topics to do with beekeeping and related crafts. Visitors to our store enjoy getting a closeup look at bees hard at work in our nearly four foot tall observation hive. And children enjoy hunting for the hidden Queen Bee while their parents shop. The prize is a free honey straw!

Our Betterbee staff is always available to answer any questions you may have about bees and beekeeping, and the products we sell. We look forward to your visit!

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https://www.betterbee.com/

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Marty Mitchell

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I recently made my first purchase from this place a few months ago. It was 364 one pound honey bottles.

I will soon be purchasing labels for said bottles. I aim to work with them to have a custom label made with a picture I took of some wildflowers from one of my pastures. Though, they have a MASSIVE selection of labels already designed up that are perfectly fine. Even lots of those are also customizable via wording on said labels.

The bottles I ordered were all pre-washed and the bottle caps already had sticker seals installed inside them... so all I have to do is screw on the caps and boom... I have a sealed bottle for sale. They were their upside-down squeeze bottle types with a built-in diaphragm, so honey stops pouring the moment you stop squeezing. Extremely easy to use... which should help my new customers use their honey.

I already got a sale catalog from them yesterday actually. Hoping to get me to be a return customer I am sure.

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I give this apiary 10 out of 10 acorns.

I am extremely biased, I live close to this store/apiary. The owners are good people and their employees are great. They sell nooks and queens every year as well as all the beekeeping and bee related supplies that you could ask for. I especially enjoy their candle molds as they produce some incredible looking beeswax candles. If that wasn't enough, they also teach classes and get more people into the beekeeping fold. I am very new at this, and have yet to get a hive, but I am friends with people who frequent the place. The knowledge and compassion that staff has for bees as a whole is heartening. One of the employees has converted her whole front yard into a pollinator garden that constantly evolves through the year. I have gotten milkweed from her!

I have only good things to talk about this business, I hope they continue to thrive and I know they are soon to be moving into a larger space!

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