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Dustin and Keri live on a 3 acres homestead south of Palmer Kansas where we raise 3 boys. We started keeping bees in 2012 as a way to pollinate our backyard orchard.  Quickly we fell in love more with the bees than the trees (although the fruit trees are still awesome).

We have spend countless hours reading, working, observing, tinkering, and interacting with our hives.  It still stings when we find a dead hive after winter, and we hope that feeling never goes away.

We currently keep bees in 6 different bee yards, called apiaries.  They are all located in Washington County Kansas.  Every bottle of honey has both the year and the township that the honey was harvested from.  You will know where your honey comes from.  If you ever want to see a bee yard, let us know.  We love to show people!

We keep bees the way they are supposed to be kept.

- No Treatments.  Bees face a lot of threats, and a lot of well meaning beekeepers try to help their bees by treating their bees.  However it likely breeds stronger and stronger pests, and many believe that these chemicals can weaken the hives ecology over time.  So we don't treat.  Nature is cruel and we may lose more hives at first.  However we are selecting for bees that can cope naturally with their environment.  We try to start new hives with queens from strong healthy hives.  Life will find a way.

- No Heating of our honey.  Most commercial honey is ultra filtered and ultra heated.  To us, it makes the honey taste burnt and processed.  Why mess with a great thing?  We don't do it.

- No mixing of our honey. We harvest honey from each yard separately. It gives our honey uniqueness that mixing ruins.

- We don't take more from the bees than they can handle.  Although we will feed the bees with sugar water if they absolutely need to, we would rather let them keep more of their hard earned honey.  It is what nature intended.

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