We sell Beeswax Candles, Body Products such as lip balms, body butters, lotion bars and soap and Honey.

Barb loves to use her aesthetics and training in herbal use to make skin care products using honey and beeswax from their hives.

Welcome to the Bee Magic Chronicles web site.

 We enjoy sharing our experiences and what we know about bees.  Feel free to browse through these pages to learn more about honey bees, gardening for bees and pollinators and what you can do to help. Are you a teacher looking for lesson plans? If so, there are lesson plans posted as well as activities for children.

Are you thinking about starting a business or hobby in beekeeping? If so, take a look at  our Beekeepers link for information to help you get started.

Have you just discovered a swarm of bees in your yard or attic? See the Swarms Explained page for a description of different types of bees. This will help to identify what insect you're dealing with. See the Swarm Collectors page for a list of beekeepers in Ontario that will remove bees or collect swarms.

We enjoy face to face sales and we also offer online sales of our candles and skin care products.

We're so glad that you care enough about bees to be interested in finding out about them. There's a lot that we can do to help them.

In 2009, Barb and her dad, Lorne, officially became beekeepers starting with two hives.  Originally Barb was going to go solo with beekeeping but two weeks prior to getting her first two hives she broke her arm.  With no lifting allowed, her Dad stepped in and said he'd help.  And he stayed even after getting stung.

Lorne enjoys his retirement and keeps busy growing veggies on his farm garden.  His border collie dog Max keeps him very active.  Lorne enjoys extracting the honey and says watching it flow into a pail is just as pleasant as watching the flames of a campfire.

Barb is a certified Esthetician (graduated from Fanshawe College, London ON).  She enjoys using her knowledge of skin care to develop body products such as creams, salves, body butters and soap that use beeswax and honey.  She loves wild foraging healing plants known to be excellent for skin care and incorporating them into her products.  It reminds her of gathering rose petals as a child and making rose water.

Barb started researching honey bees in 2008, and is also working on a children's novel about honey bees called Bee Magic Chronicles.  You can read about her adventures and misadventures with the bees on The Bee Journal blog.  A second blog that's specifically geared to children is at Bee Magic Chronicles for Kids.  This is where you can learn about mummified and zombie bees and all the amazing things that bees can do.

Their facebook page is Bee Magic Chronicles and Likes are always most welcome!

Thanks for dropping by!

Barbara Lindberg & Lorne Groves at Bee Magic Chronicles