The Marchands have kept bees for nearly thirty years and run a business, the Honeybee Foundation and Products, from premises in Maitland, Cape Town. HF&P manufactures beekeeping equipment, provides pollination and swarm removal services and sells hive products such as raw honey, health products, confectionery and apicosmetics. In addition HF&P offers educational initiatives including a creative education centre for learners and adults (both hobbyists and training for rural development). For more information about courses offered by HF&P, please email honeybee@global.co.za.
Dom and his team won the FNB Enablis Business Plan Competition 2006 for their work on extending beekeeping to rural South Africa.