About Us

Our founders Stan and Vlad have over 30 years combined experience beekeeping around the world, After years of searching North Carolina with no success for honey that was truly wild and natural to their standard. In 2006 they decided to keep a few hives, so that their family and they can enjoy the wonderful natural raw honey, After some time, word began to spread about how delicious the honey was and more and more friends and family requested it. As Stan and Vlad sustainably expanded the hives to keep up with the overwhelming demand more and more people suggested that we share our raw honey treasure with Chatham County, so we decided to do just that.

Unfortunately most of today's beekeeping industry do not share our vision;

Nature and mass production don t mix. You can see many examples of this in the natural world when deer populations explode, predator populations are quick to follow, thereby decimating deer populations. Or when plants or animals are crowded together, deadly diseases thrive. Now … honeybee populations appear to be threatened due to large-scale management practices. The recent phenomenon of  colony collapse disorder has seen the untimely loss of 30-70% of the honeybee population …. Jade 

Who should be surprised that the major media reports forget to tell us that the dying bees are actually hyper-bred varieties that we coax into a larger than normal body size? It sounds just like the beef industry.

The problem with the big commercial guys is that they put pesticides in their hives to fumigate for varroa mites, and they feed antibiotics to the bees. They also haul the hives by truck all over the place to make more money with pollination services, which stresses the colonies. In our efforts to make larger bees that are resistant to more predators or diseases  industries have crossed the line in how they can go! These are important questions to ask. It is not an uncommonly held opinion that, although this new pattern of bee colony collapse seems to have struck from out of the blue (which suggests a triggering agent), it is likely that some biological limit in the bees has been crossed. There is no shortage of evidence that we have been fast approaching this limit for some time.

We've been pushing them too hard, Dr. Peter Kevan, an associate professor of environmental biology at the University of Guelph in Ontario, told the CBC. And we're starving them out by feeding them artificially and moving them great distances. Given the stress commercial bees are under, Kevan suggests CCD might be caused by parasitic mites, or long cold winters, or long wet springs, or pesticides, or genetically modified crops. Maybe it's all of the above ... - Lancifer