WELCOME TO EAST ROCK APIARY
 

We are a small, family-run apiary operating in the East Rock neighborhood of New Haven, Connecticut.

East Rock Apiary represents our best effort to demonstrate the importance of supporting local honey bees and to give back to our local community. We believe that our raw, organic honey will be better for you and your family than honey from far away.

My father grew up in Mullica Hill, New Jersey, where he, his brother and his father learned how to keep bees from the Scottish former groundskeeper for George Washington’s estate, Mount Vernon.  

In recent years, concerned by reports of Colony Collapse Disorder, I urged my father to rekindle his boyhood hobby. We have kept bees in our backyard since 2013 and have worked hard to develop our apiary. We only use natural approaches to manage threats to the health of our bees because we feel that our own health, and the health of our community will be best achieved by adopting best practices for ensuring the health of our bees. Our hives live in our community—including in our own back yard—where we use natural selection to develop a locally adapted race of bees that enjoy better health and vigor.

Thank you for visiting our website and for supporting local bees. 

--Ian Knisely, Founder