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...

Growing up, most of us didn’t think twice about bees unless we were unfortunate enough to get stung. So you’d be forgiven for thinking, “Bees are those little yellow-and-black-striped guys who sting and make honey.” You’d be forgiven, but you’d be wrong on pretty much all counts: Bees come in a ...

In the late 2000s, you couldn’t throw a honey dipper without hitting someone proclaiming, “Save the bees!” This was during the height of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), when beekeepers would lose as many as 60% of their hives every winter. Millions and millions of worker bees would inexplicably c...

There are two parts of Pollinator Awareness Week: conservation and conversation. And while we would never stop someone from planting a pollinator garden, supporting local beekeepers, or even becoming a beekeeper, this week is when we all need to be talking the talk about how our tiny striped frie...

Yes, it sounds bold, but we have big ambitions for our Harvest Reserve honeys. They’re how we can literally save American honeys by preventing them from going to waste or being blended and filtered into typical mass-produced honeys. Not only are we protecting these unique flavors, we’re also brin...

To keep the buzz going on our three-year partnership with Butterfly Pavilion, we’re co-sponsoring a series of events and giveaways throughout 2021, starting right now in April with The Beauty of Beekeeping. For those who don’t know, Butterfly Pavilion is the first AZA-accredited nonprofit inverte...

Mary Reisinger stays busy. Ever since her reign as 2020 American Honey Queen began, she’s had a packed schedule of travelling across the country for speaking engagements, beekeeper meetings, school visits, and – since March – virtual presentations. In July, she met up with us to discuss beekeepin...

Right now, both American bees and beekeepers have their work cut out for them, with more threats to their survival than ever before. But there’s good news, too: you can help. Murder Hornets are Just the Tip of the Stinger You may have heard about the coming wave of murder hornets: giant Asian hor...

What do beekeepers do in January? It turns out, not much. Okay, see you next week! Just kidding. There’s a lot more than meets the eye. So much more, in fact, that modern beekeepers now use sophisticated tools like thermal imaging to check up on their hives. Beekeeping, like farming and football ...

If you happen upon a beehive––which, by the way, is technically called a nest––in your home or yard, don’t panic. There’s plenty you can do. Don’t: Spray chemicals or pesticides into the hive. This won’t kill the bees immediately, but it will aggravate them––probably not what you were going for. ...

It turns out there are a few beekeepers out there with plenty of buzz of their own. Even between a demanding schedule of acting, playing in a rock band, or even serving as First Lady, many famous folks have found time to support bees in their backyard.Though more and more people are taking up bee...

Planting a wildflower garden is probably the single best way you can support local pollinators in your neck of the woods. There’s no reason to leave pollination up to local bees and their keepers – you can easily help your local ecosystem without leaving your backyard. Don’t worry: you can put do...

Worker bees in our local hives are always looking for new local pollen sources, because it’s the one ingredient they need to make honey. So, when they find a tasty new flower, it’s big news for the whole hive. No single bee can make enough honey for the whole hive – in fact, one bee will only pro...

Monday marks the first day of fall, which means that while the weather might be cooling down, beekeeping season is heating up at our hives around the country. At this very moment, our beekeepers are busy harvesting plenty of honey, and then – critically – doing nothing to it, keeping it raw &...

We know that bees are hard workers, but those long hours involve some help from sweet science. Along with “environmentalist” and “flower enthusiast”, “chemist” is another title on bees’ long list of apiary accolades. While a bee hive may not look like a science lab, every step from flower to comb...

In the last few weeks, our beekeepers got some new competition. Morgan Freeman – the acclaimed actor, director, philanthropist and now beekeeper – has converted his 124-acre Mississippi ranch into a bee sanctuary, helping to put dwindling bee populations in the spotlight. Turns out, Freeman has b...

As of Wednesday, spring is officially here, and with spring, comes flowers, and with flowers, come bees! Beekeeping requires year-round work, but things really shift into gear in the spring as bees emerge from their long winter’s nap and start the mad dash to begin building up their honey stores....

There’s no sweeter way to mark the beginning of fall than by celebrating National Honey Month. The National Honey Board chose September to promote and support the beekeeping industry because September marks the beginning of the end of regular honey season in the Northern parts of the United State...