PLAN BEE installs and manages beehives within the M25 and across North Essex but we can install one-off beehives anywhere.

Complete working beehives can be bought, rented, sponsored or gifted with ongoing management including delivery of your own honey.

Fully installed working beehives start at £1200 for the first year with fully inclusive management and harvesting at £600 per hive for subsequent years. Discounts are available for schools, colleges, care settings, home gardens and for additional hives on the same site.

You can reserve your bees and beehive with a 50% deposit with the balance paid a month after installation.

Y​our first year's beehive management starts from the day the hive is installed.

The first payment includes you buying the beehive and honeybees, they're yours to keep. That said, PLAN BEE is always on hand should you move address or change your mind, we can always safely rehouse them.

Honeybees are wild animals, with beekeepers nurturing and managing some species for honey and pollination. For clients who 'just want the bees' PLAN BEE can make a one-off installation of a sealed wooden hive of honeybees that can be left to their own devices. The hive has enough room for bee numbers to expand naturally within a wild colony that can live without human interference.​

Management of your beehive and the live honey bee colony is PLAN BEE's full responsibility, we will keep the colony live and healthy and making you honey. But depending on the time of season, for freshly installed hives, it's often best to take honey on the second year to let the colony get fully established - if that's the case we will substitute with PLAN BEE raw honey.

With arrangement before installation your beehive can be custom painted and stencilled with your name or brand logo.  

Educational and event beehive inspections can easily be arranged, to look inside your beehive and taste the raw honey.

As soon as your bees are making enough extra honey for us to harvest, we will deliver you your finished raw honey once or twice a year, usually early summer and/or early autumn, depending on the nectar flow.

PLAN BEE is insured for general public liability and hive inspections only when supervised by PLAN BEE, our general advice is not to interfere with the hive at all and only observe from a safe distance.

Bees aren’t aggressive but they are defensive of their home, common sense will keep you safe but for obvious reasons, PLAN BEE is not responsible for your health and safety but rest assured any problems you can contact PLAN BEE anytime 24/7.

Once terms have been agreed prices won’t change, that's' guaranteed, and should you change your mind, we can remove and rehouse your bees and your beehive anytime.

Raw honey's colour and flavour will change seasonally, and from year to year. This is entirely down to what forage the bees choose and the time of year the honey is harvested.

Raw honey is not suitable for infants under 12 months.

Raw honey never goes off, it may set (crystalize) but can be cleared by warming in hot water or sunlight.