I was raised on a homestead on a mountaintop in West Virginia. My parents raised much of the food that we ate and that included honey from a small apiary. In 1988 we moved to the Charlottesville area, bringing the bees in with us in the back of a U-haul. I was always interested in the behavior of the bees and harvesting and consuming honey. Years later when I finally settled down we started a small apiary of our own which slowly grew into a full time passion. I am especially fascinated with honeybee health and breeding bees that are resistant to pathogens.

 

I sell colonies of bees and queens to other beekeepers and speak to clubs and beekeeping conferences about techniques of successful beekeeping. Over time healthy bees meant producing more honey than we could dream of ever using so I sell it at the farm, through stores and at the farmers market in the fall."

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