🎤 Book Niki for Speaking & Tasting
Niki Canotas — President of the Santa Clara Bee Guild, last farmer in Campbell, Greek/Czech Silicon Valley honey storyteller. She brings honey, bees, and the Bay Area's agricultural story to your event.
📍 On-site at your venue — anywhere in the Bay Area (and beyond, with travel)
💻 Virtual via Zoom / Google Meet / Teams — guided tasting box ships to your team in advance, then we taste together live
What Niki Offers
🍯 Guided Honey Tasting Tour
- Sommelier-style walk through 10–20 California honeys
- The story behind each varietal — where, when, who pollinated it
- Two tasting rounds so everyone gets the full experience
- Niki brings her own tasting table (on-site) or pre-ships a tasting kit (virtual)
- Perfect for: weddings, baby showers, birthdays, corporate offsites, virtual team building
🎙 Keynote Speaking
- Bees, agriculture, women in business, Silicon Valley's last farm
- Featured on NBC AI & Small Business, California Live
- Custom-tailored to your audience
- 30 min · 60 min · workshop format
- Free for nonprofits/schools when scheduling allows · paid for corporate & private
📚 Educational / School Visits
- K-12 classrooms — pollinators, bees, local agriculture
- Live demonstration with safe observation hive (when available)
- Hands-on tasting age-appropriate
- Free or low-cost
🏢 Corporate Team Building
- Bee Experience at the Honey House (suit up, meet the hives)
- On-site honey tasting at your office
- Virtual tasting kits shipped to remote teams
- Custom labeled gift jars for the team
What's Included
- All tasting jars, supplies, & shipping (for virtual)
- Niki's expertise & stories — 13 years building MNHCo
- Certificate of Insurance (COI) provided to your venue
- Travel within the Bay Area for on-site
Pricing Notes
- Base hourly: $125/hour for Niki's time
- Travel (on-site only): Mileage + drive time (~$50 within 50 miles)
- Virtual delivery: No travel cost; tasting kit shipping at-cost
- Booking fee: $25 or 10% of total (whichever is higher), non-refundable, secures your date
- Custom add-ons: labeled jars, gift bags, bobble ears, honey dispensers, live display bees (on-site)
Cancellation & Reschedule
- Cancel 7+ days out: full refund minus booking fee
- Reschedule (any reason): event fee preserved, new booking fee applies
- Weather/emergency cancel by us: full refund or rebook
Request Your Event
Tell us about your event — Niki texts back within 24 hours with a custom quote and confirms availability.
Past Appearances
NBC News (AI & Small Business segment) · NBC California Live (Bay Area, LA, San Diego) · Rainbow Chamber of Commerce · Santa Clara Bee Guild · Various Bay Area corporate & private events
