How the Hobby Became Our Family Business...

As the leisure pastime of occasionally checking on a hive or two started to turn into more work with the increased numbers of hives, Kyle began to lose interest in the hobby”. Thankfully, Heather (who has a biology background) started to take an interest in things.

She started her journey into bees by first hanging out at a considerable distance while Jesse worked the hives, then taking the occasional peek into the hive, to very quickly suiting-up and working along-side her husband as they tended the bees together.

It soon became apparent that weekends weren’t always the most opportune time to accomplish everything that needed to be done, so Heather quickly took over many of the tasks herself during the week.

Now, she’s just as knowledgeable and more involved with the bees on a daily basis than Jesse is. 

With both of them now hooked on beekeeping, they began trying to figure out the best way to integrate their love for the bees with how to help the struggling bee populations. This brought ideas to the forefront to, hopefully, find a way to start recouping some of the extensive money they were investing into their “hobby”.
Being most-interested in the propagation and continued improvement of northern-hardy bees, combined with helping others discover the joy that is beekeeping, Jesse & Heather decided together that they should get into creating and selling nucs to other beekeepers. Hence, “Beam’s Bees” was born….

Beam’s Bees officially started selling nucs to others in 2014 and has received wonderful compliments, referrals, and has grown a repeat business from many of our initial customers.

In addition, to creating and selling nucs, we take our bees “on tour” once in awhile. We enjoy setting up our observation hive and talking to the public. We educate groups of all ages about honey bees.

Although taking our beekeeping "on tour" is time-consuming, it is also a lot of fun and very rewarding. Many people are initially afraid of bees, but everyone seems to love to watch them safely behind the glass.

We feel that no one walks away without gaining a greater appreciation of just how important bees are to our environment and economy.
"If we can encourage everyone to do 'just a little something' to help the bees,
the world will ultimately be a better place for all of us."  -Beam's Bees, LLC