Full Bloom Apiaries is a full-time honeybee farm producing local Connecticut honey that is unfiltered and non-pasteurized.  The honey is produced from hives located in outyards on farms located in Eastern Connecticut.  Using best management practices, our business maintains strong healthy colonies of Northern raised bees, with high honey production in the summer and low mortality over the winter.  The colonies are divided into two groups: honey production hives and nucleus hives.  Thereby, annual colony expansion, winter loss replacements, surplus Spring bees, and new queens will be supplied from the stock of nucleus (support) colonies.