The Christ the King community maintains two apiaries as part of our stewardship of the natural environment. Our bees colonies provide us an example of how collaborative living can elevate a community above the sum of its individuals. Our volunteer beekeeping team strives to keep our bees healthy, and to increase awareness of the importance of pollinators in the Great Falls area.
Join the Hive
You can meet the bees yourself! Come “bee” a part of our apiary community as a regular volunteer or just visit to see in person how amazing they truly are. Reservations are required and all beekeeping equipment is supplied.
Our tiny friends are fascinating creatures and we are always learning something new from them. Come see for yourself!
Follow Our Bees
Thanks to all who attended and volunteered at the Honey Harvest Festival
We welcomed approximately 420 visitors to this year’s Honey Harvest Festival on August 30. People enjoyed live outdoor music, crafts produced by our vendors and plenty of baked goods and honey. Over the past several weeks we have inspected all of our hives. We have found a few that are lagging a bit behind and…
Honey Harvest Festival Preparations
Antonia Siebert has been working near full time on Honey Harvest Preparations for the past two weeks. Work has included vendor coordination, advertising and outreach, coordination with the Great Falls Philharmonic and our musical guests, getting volunteers lined up for set up and day of chores, and many other things. Her dedication to ensuring the…
Preparing for 2026 Honey Harvest Festival
July has been a busy month. We have extracted and bottled over 800 pounds of honey, packaged 45 sections “Ross Round” comb honey, and processed 35 pounds of beeswax. Still on our list for the festival making some beeswax taper candles, beeswax lip balm, and producing some baked goods with our honey. We are also…