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Local Hive: The Sourcing Story
Beekeeping
For more than 100 years, we've partnered with beekeepers all across the United States to source Local Hive Honey. While other honey companies filter and homogenize their honey, we're proud to bottle it raw & unfiltered, with all those local 'imperfections' intact.
This means each of our ...
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When we launched Organic Hive in 2024, we took things a step further. We could've just launched a better-tasting organic honey, sourced from a remote corner of Brazil and called it a day. But after flying out to meet the local beekeepers and double-checking the organic certifications ourselves, w... -
Why Local Honey Changes in the Summer
Beekeeping
From blueberry fields in Maine to the citrus groves of Florida, summer is when beekeepers go all in. When the days get longer, the work gets harder—for bees and beekeepers. In every region of the U.S., summer is the most demanding season of the year for the craft of beekeeping. It's also when the... -
Get Started with Beekeeping
Beekeeping
Beekeeping isn’t just a guy in a white suit. That’s the image most of us have, though: a mesh veil, a buzzing box, maybe a smoker in hand. But who are these people really? And what does it mean to care for a colony of 60,000 bees? For most, beekeeping feels distant. Maybe even a little mysterious... -
Bees Travel More than the Average American
Beekeeping
Spring is a season of renewal. And for honey bees, it’s moving season. Across fields, forests, and farmlands, entire colonies lift off and take to the skies. Some take flight in massive, swirling swarms, a ritual of reproduction and expansion. Others are gently coaxed into crates by beekeep... -
Bomb-Sniffing Bees: Nature’s Tiny Detectives
Beekeeping
Bees have been helping humans for thousands of years, not just by making honey but by pollinating crops that feed the world. In fact, many of our favorite foods are only available because of bee pollination. Honey bees alone contribute over $15 billion to U.S. agriculture annually through their v... -
Chasing Gold with a California Beekeeper
Beekeeping
"We should keep this a secret," our guide told us, gesturing to the small, inconspicuous hilltop we were standing on, somewhere along the edge of California's Central Valley. No, our guide was not a gold miner, drug smuggler or undercover agent. He's just a beekeeper named Cameron Robertson. ... -
Pollinator Awareness Week 2024
Beekeeping
Happy Pollinator Awareness Week! Every year in June, our team at Local Hive takes some time to appreciate and spread the good word about our pollinators — both insect and human. Most people are aware that bees are pollinators, but humans play an important role, too. If a human brushes up again... -
What Bees Do During a Total Solar Eclipse
Beekeeping
During the total solar eclipse on April 8th, 2024, people from Texas to Maine will be shrouded in darkness for about 5 minutes, and partially in the dark for about 2.5–3 hours. Source: NASA Scientific Visualization Studio All across the country, temperatures will drop (slightly.) Traffic will c... -
How Honeybees Spend Their Holidays
Beekeeping
If you’re celebrating the holidays with your family, you’re kind of like a honeybee. While bees don’t put up decorations or buy each other expensive skincare, like we do during the holidays, they do have their own festivities. As winter approaches, bees celebrate by stocking up on nectar and maki... -
Bee Hugs: A Winter Survival Strategy
Beekeeping
Ahh, winter. The time of the year when the mornings are chilly and the mosquitoes are finally gone. But wait... if mosquitoes are gone, does that mean bees are gone too? Don’t worry. The bees are fine. If you’re asking, “Where did the bees go?”, the answer isn’t “far south”, like other animals an... -
How Much Honey Does a Bee Make?
Beekeeping
Honeybees are small. Really small. Each one is barely the size of a fingernail. Yet, somehow, all the bees in the U.S. make 125,000,000 pounds of honey every year. That’s more than the Titanic weighed! That means every year, U.S. bees make a literal boatload of honey. But how much does just one b... -
How to Support Pollinators
Beekeeping
Why are pollinators so important? What’s the buzz with all those species? And what exactly do they need from us humans? Well, to put it simply, pollinators like bees, birds, butterflies and bats help plants reproduce and keep our environment diverse. Because of them, a lot of different plant spe... -
The Real Reason We Need Pollinators
Beekeeping
Most kinds of animal activism involve us humans giving something up. We need to quit eating meat, or quit bulldozing forests, or stop construction to protect an endangered species. But pollinators are the exact opposite. We humans depend on them. In ways big and small, pollinators direct life on ... -
The American Beekeeping Boom
Beekeeping
Every year, the team at Local Hive makes sure to celebrate National Honey Month. But this year, we’ve got something bigger in mind. Not just one month, but 400 years of honey. That’s because bees and their honey have been a crucial part of this country since way back in 1622. It was in 1622 that ... -
The Buzz with Pollinator Week
Beekeeping
June 20–26th is Pollinator Week, a time for everyone everywhere to celebrate the species who pollinate flowers of all kinds. Why, you might ask, is a honey company so gung-ho about pollinators? Well, we don’t just love bees for honey. They’re also nature’s most important pollinator. There are tho...
