About Us

Established in 1918, Nith Valley Apiaries has been passed through four owners, each of them learning from the previous beekeeper. Our hives dot the countryside throughout Perth, Waterloo and Oxford counties, with around 20 hives at each yard, and 25 bee-yards. These hives allow us to provide honey to the residents of Southwestern Ontario and beyond.

We believe in working within sustainable local food systems and place a high value on supporting our ecosystem, our local farmers, and our community. We offer the best quality honey products and customer service. By constantly upgrading our knowledge-base from other beekeepers and the scientific community we incorporate this knowledge into our business practices. Over the last few years we have been exploring healthy new products such as bee pollen, propolis, and small-batch specialty flavoured honeys. We've also added plants and habitat spaces to our farm to better support pollinators. Learn more about what's happening and who's behind it all here.

We currently supply a number of local stores and restaurants, as well as retailing directly to the public from our 'Honey House' on the edge of New Hamburg. We offer a variety of quality honey products and varying specialty gift items. Bulk honey is always on tap and we are happy to fill your containers.

Mike, Erika, Joe, Ryan, Brie, and Lyss (Right to Left) all work together closely to keep things buzzing along smoothly in the honey house, office and in the beeyards.

Mike is our master beekeeper. He purchased the business after working under the previous beekeeper for several years, picking up all the skills and know-how of running the business. When he's not keeping bees or building beekeeping equipment, Mike enjoys family time with his wife, Erika, and young kids. He also enjoys working away on projects ranging from tree-planting and woodworking to innovating more efficient ways to get things done. When you see him, ask him what his latest project is!

Erika is our Operations Manager and 'Girl Friday.' She takes care of our office management, customer service, wholesale relations anything else as it comes up. She is also mother to three young boys Finnian, Sebastian, and Lukas and enjoys tending to the vegetable and flower gardens you can see on our farms. Winter brings her more time to relax and listen to her record collection, play piano or work on sewing projects.

Brie is our dedicated retail manager, she joined our team in the spring of 2021 and hasn't looked back. She is a friendly face you'll see in our store or talk to when you call us. She has really enjoyed working side by side with Erika and Mike learning all about honey and bees. When she started at NVA she would hold her breath whenever she saw a bee or wasp near by and by the end of her first season she hardly noticed them. Brie loves to spend her time away from NVA with her pony Martha or snuggling her cats while watching Netflix.

Teiryn is our newest team member as of spring 2023. She's enjoying her time working in the honey house, and taking care of the store. She's very interested in the bees and hopes to soon be out in the yards helping out this summer. Teiryn spends time camping and biking in her spare time and loves long drives through the Ontario countryside's small towns meeting new people wherever she goes. Her favourite coworkers are definitely the three cats, and they love her right back.

Our Honey house has been growing and growing ever since Mike took over NVA. Each year we have found ways to incorporate helping hands and friendly faces in every part of our business, some years we have swelled to even FOUR beekeepers, where others we have had all hands on deck to deal with admin and bookkeeping. You may notice these changes most in who is filling your jars in the Honey House itself! There are always a couple of new (and old) faces ready to help you with all of your honey needs. While you still might get a lucky jar filled by Erika or Mike, it's more likely to see them chasing their wonderfully rambunctious kids around or driving deliveries or beekeeping, rest assured they are never far away!