The Urban Beehive is inner Sydney's leading beekeeping shop and urban honey supplier, with hives located throughout the city – on rooftops, in parks and gardens, and coastal reserves. Run and owned by beekeepers for beekeepers, we stock leading Australian-made beekeeping equipment, offer popular beekeeping courses and hive management, and are experts at bee mentoring.
Whether you're an expert apiarist or new to bees, we've got you covered.
In backyards, community gardens, at the beach and on rooftops across the city, our hives are located everywhere in Sydney, from Bondi and Marrickville to the Botanic Gardens and the roof of the Shangri-La Hotel. Comprised of experienced apiarists with many years of shared knowledge, the Urban Beehive team offer advice and insight into every stage of the beekeeping journey, from companion planting to harvesting honey and everything in between – supplies, equipment, resources and expertise.
Honeybees and native bees play a vital role in ensuring our urban environments are pollinated. Not only are inner-city bees free to roam away from the industrial pesticides widely used in commercial farming, they have access to incredible flora biodiversity, gathered from every garden, parkland and nature reserve from Bondi to Balmain – and beyond. Plus, with bee populations threatened by environmental instability and disease, the productivity and diversity of urban hives can help to redress these concerns.
The Urban Beehive proudly collaborates with some of the city's best-known hotels, venues and food producers. Our bees are busy making honey at the Shangri-La Hotel, at Vaucluse House, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Bourke Street Bakery, David Jones, Archie Rose and Carriageworks, and in most cases, the final product gets used on site, from fresh sourdough to honey-infused spirits and tiny bottles of the purest urban sweetness in the city's leading hotels.
Whatever your interest in bees and honey, we've got the answers.
Beekeeping can be daunting at the outset, but don’t worry, we’re here to help in every way we can.
The Urban Beehive’s Vaucluse House Honey is one of our best sellers at the museum shop at Vaucluse House. It is a great quality product, and as the honey is sourced from the hives that are part of the museum’s kitchen garden, it is a perfect souvenir or gift. Museums of History NSW also sells The Urban Beehive’s Sydney honey at the Hyde Park Barracks’ Museum shop and the Bullion Store, located at The Mint. Both products are very popular with visitors and staff alike.
At Carriageworks, we have five busy beehives tucked into an old yellow railway traverser by the tracks – see if you can spot them as you pass by on the train! The wonderful team at The Urban Beehive lovingly manages the welfare of our bees and harvests the delicious Sweet Arts honey that we sell at the Carriageworks Farmers Market every Saturday.
The Urban Beehive is the only store you want to deal with if you want to keep bees for environmental sustainability. Vicky and Doug trained me in beekeeping as well as providing all the gear and support – they are the best beekeepers: authentic, kind and most helpful, and nothing was too much for them.
The Urban Beehive has been tending the hives on the roof of Bourke Street Bakery, Banksmeadow, for six years. The hives produce an abundance of delicious honey, which we sell in our bakeries. I highly recommend getting some urban beehives on your roof.
The Urban Beehive has been looking after the hives in the Vaucluse House kitchen garden for eight years. Apart from expertly harvesting and bottling the most delicious honey for our shop – which always sells out! – Vicky’s regular check-ups keep the bees happy and healthy.
Vicky and Doug love to share their incredible knowledge and I have learned a new mind-blowing bee fact at every one of their visits. The more I learn the more I’m in awe of these mysterious honey producing, pollinating, little geniuses! Such a great team.
I was lucky enough to be gifted a beekeeping course with The Urban Beehive and it was fantastic! Not only are the beekeepers highly experienced and thoughtful in the way that they present this important topic, they invest deep levels of care and commitment into ensuring that the bees are always the priority, and that students are aware of the vital importance of urban pollinators in the city. If you have any interest in bees, sign up now. You won’t regret it.
I have been purchasing quality beekeeping equipment from The Urban Beehive for years now. Shipping costs to South Australia are very reasonable and all orders have arrived quickly and packed well. Not only that, but at the height of spring when all other stores had run out of Australian beeswax foundation, The Urban Beehive had plenty in stock. I’m sold!
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We love to support all beekeepers but do not place beehives in residential gardens for hosting. However, if you have a beehive and would like to be mentored by one of our expert beekeepers to become more confident with bees, we are happy to help. Contact us for more info.
Retail honey is available online and at our shop in Matraville. Wholesale stock is available for anyone wanting to feature The Urban Beehive honey at their business or to use as an ingredient.