BEEHIVE DISTRIBUTION PROGRAM | Bee Tradition

Packages for the Beehive Distribution Program (Program) are being authorized August 22 thru September 6, 2024.

Simplest packages submitted (i) on-line or (ii) postmarked throughout the applying duration might be authorized. Any packages submitted on-line or postmarked earlier than August 22 or after September 6, 2024, may not be authorized.

Packages that had been submitted in earlier years won’t elevate over to the present Program. As well as, packages from earlier years must no longer be resubmitted as the applying can have modified and resubmitted packages could also be incomplete. To qualify for beehive devices, people will have to put up a brand new software the usage of the “Beehive Distribution On-line Registration” or via printing, finishing, and mailing in a “Paper Software“. Please scroll down this web page to seek out the hyperlinks for those software choices. People must supply a sound electronic mail deal with with their software as notifications in regards to the standing of an software might be despatched via electronic mail. Data submitted as a part of this software could also be matter to the Virginia Freedom of Data Act. Finished paper packages will have to be mailed to:

• Virginia Division of Agriculture and Shopper Services and products
• Workplace of Plant Trade Services and products
• ATTN: Beehive Distribution Program
• PO Field 1163
• Richmond, Virginia, 23218

RECIPIENTS OF BEEHIVE UNITS WILL BE SELECTED AT RANDOM from qualifying packages. Beehive devices are no longer awarded in line with the order wherein packages are won. It’s not a primary come, first serve program.

The Program supplies apparatus at once to eligible people for the development of recent beehives. Person citizens of the Commonwealth of Virginia who’re 18 years of age or older on the time an software is submitted are eligible to obtain not more than 3 (3) beehive devices consistent with fiscal yr. A couple of people living in the similar family would possibly put up an software, alternatively not more than 3 (3) beehive devices consistent with family might be dispensed. People aren’t eligible to obtain beehive devices in consecutive years till all packages from people that didn’t obtain devices within the earlier yr are processed.

People who put up an software for a beehive unit in the course of the Program might be registered as a beekeeper with the Virginia Division of Agriculture and Shopper Services and products. Beehive apparatus won in the course of the Program will have to be assembled and serious about a colony of honey bees inside of one (1) yr of receiving the apparatus. Honey bees and kit to regulate beehives, reminiscent of non-public protection apparatus and honey processing apparatus, aren’t supplied in the course of the Program. Directions for making use of to obtain beehive devices in the course of the Program can also be discovered within the Pointers & Necessities.

People receiving beehive devices are inspired to go into their apiary location within the BeeCheck mapping device.

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