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We're beekeepers committed to producing raw, unfiltered honey in Locust Grove, Virginia. We manage several hundred bee hives in our area.
As small scale honey packers, we also source premium honey from other American beekeepers. We offer only the very best honey we find from across the USA.
Taste the difference and support American beekeepers. Say no to imported honey!
Our small operation of around 400 colonies allows us to focus on the bees in a way that might be impossible on a much larger scale. We work hard to produce queens that will improve our own operation. We monitor mites, treat when needed, and do everything we can to reduce the likelihood of miticide resistance. We’re constantly looking for new research, new techniques, and signs that our old way of doing things doesn't work anymore.
Once we got serious about beekeeping we added a large proportion of Russian bees into our small operation. We chose them for their apparent ability to resist the mites, produce large amounts of honey, and overwinter successfully. We’ve continued to work on our bees through various selection methods, as well as by adding great genetics from outside sources. Our newest tool to combat the mites is UBeeO testing, which promises to help identify critical aspects of mite resistance in a two hour testing timespan.
Varroa mites and the viruses they transmit are the biggest challenges honey bees face today. Since the mites were introduced to the USA in the late 1980s, American beekeepers have struggled to manage this difficult pest. Devastating losses resulted and sometimes still do. Because of the many difficult lessons learned by commercial beekeepers and researchers, keeping bees alive isn't as difficult as it once was. We’re thankful for the wealth of knowledge and the great genetics available to us almost 40 years later. We’re proud of our bees and believe they’re improving the gene pool in our area.
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