About Us

We keep bees and produce honey in both south central and northern Pennsylvania. In Cumberland county (just west of Carlisle), we have a small farm shop and bee supply, where we carry a range of products and offer wax dipping services and classes to other beekeepers. In northern Pennsylvania (Nicholson area) we also offer queens and supplies on a regular basis during the bee season.

Our raw honey and bee products are produced by our own honey bee colonies in Pennsylvania (nowhere else) without the use of antibiotics or non-organic treatments on the honeybee colonies, and our processing facility is licensed and inspected. We keep all of our bees in Pennsylvania, and our breeder queens (queens used to create new queens) are not treated for mites (monitored and tested carefully), and our production colonies are treated with organic mite treatments as needed. 

Each season we produce a limited number of high quality Pennsylvania mated queens, based on local and inseminated genetics from VSH Carniolan, VSH Pol-line, Golden West, NWC, and others. Our breeder queens are based on our primary goals: not aggressive, good honey production, and the mother (breeder queen) showing mite resistance. When you buy a queen from a varroa-resistant mother, you won't really know whether her daughters (your colony) will inherit that trait until the end of the season, if you're testing, so if you want to be sure to add such genetics to your apiary, buy more than one! The good news is that regardless of whether the workers (via the queen) inherit varroa resistance, all (100%) of your drones from that colony will spread varroa resistance (because drones don't have fathers, only grandfathers, so they are passing on the trait from the breeder queen). Years ago we realized the value of investing in high quality genetics, and we spend significant effort and money each year to maintain and improve our bees.