Beekeeper
Blaylock Family Farm Partnership
About this opportunity
Job requires performing manual labor associated with the care and maintenance of honey bee colonies during the winter (overwintering) season. Duties include: prepare and mix supplemental feed (sugar syrup, fondant, and/or pollen substitute) and feed bee colonies as directed, including filling and maintaining feeding boxes and feeders and perform general maintenance and cleanup duties incidental to the beekeeping operation.
- Dates
- Nov 30, 2026 – Feb 28, 2027
- Duration
- ~3 months
- Experience
- 1 month(s)
- Category
- agriculture
Requirements
- Experience: 1 month(s)
- Job requires having or being able to obtain a drivers license within 30 days of hire. Basic English literacy skills are required. Job requires adhering to strict biosecurity, company policies, and food safety guidelines, ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations.
- construct, assemble, repair, and paint beehive boxes, feeding boxes, hive stands, frames, and related woodenware
- install foundation and replace lost or damaged beeswax comb and foundation in frames
- repair and/or replace damaged hive parts and components
- install entrance blocks/reducers and mouse guards
- install, remove, and stage queen excluders and honey supers in preparation for the spring nectar flow
- build windbreaks and take other measures to protect hives from winter weather, including adjusting hive ventilation and moisture control
- inspect colonies on days when weather permits to monitor food stores, colony strength, queen status, disease, and parasites
- apply approved pest and parasite treatments as directed by the employer
- control wood lice, termites, wax moths, small hive beetles, and other pests affecting hives and stored equipment
- take measures to deter and exclude predators and vermin (including rodents, skunks, raccoons, and birds), including maintaining fencing and traps
- remove dead colonies
- clean, scrape, sterilize, and store hive equipment
- maintain apiary grounds, including clearing vegetation and debris from around hives
- load and unload equipment and supplies
- drive to town to pick up bee supplies and materials
- keep simple written records of colony status and feeding
Work authorization
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- Work authorization
- H-2A Temporary Agricultural Worker
- International candidates
- Yes
- Employer sponsorship
- Required
- Confirmation
- Confirmed by source
- Official source
- U.S. Department of Labor
Benefits & conditions
- Housing
- Employer-provided (including mobile or range) — Employer provided trailer; 2 bedrooms; 2 beds; accommodates 2 people. Employer will house worker and family.
- Transportation
- Employer will provide workers that reside in employer provided or secured housing with transportation from the housing to the worksite daily at no cost to the worker. Workers who are reasonably able to return to their residence within the same day will not be provided with housing, subsistence and transportation. Continued in Addendum C.
How to apply
- judysee52@gmail.com
- Phone
- +18702700721
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Official source
U.S. DOL SeasonalJobs
- Case number
- JO-A-300-26260-240399
- Verification
- Last verified: September 20, 2026
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