As Master Beekeepers, Les Crowder and Nathalie B. have over 65 years combined expertise in Natural Beekeeping, Education and Professional Beekeeping Services.
They currently manage over 400 colonies in roughly 40 yards, a lot of which are Horizontal Frame-less (Top-Bar) Hives, as they are much easier on the Bees, and Beekeepers' Backs and Budgets.
Always kept organically and 100% treatment-free, most of the bees in the Honey Farms are either rescued from cutouts or swarms looking for a home and rehabilitated for at least a year before being used for production.
Biologist and world-renowned Master Beekeeper, Les is a 55+ year veteran of the beekeeping world, a widely recognized expert in natural beekeeping and a past Chief Apiary Inspector for the state of New Mexico.
Throughout his career as a beekeeper, he has always looked for ways to eliminate toxic inputs in the hive, starting with antibiotics and now miticides. He has been keeping bees in Langstroth and Top-Bar Hives his entire life, both as a hobby and as a business.
Earlier in his career, Les worked for a business with 4,000 hives in New Mexico, and was the President of the New Mexico Beekeepers Association multiple times. He also was a honeybee inspector there for 5 years.
A true honey bee expert and whisperer, Les has been teaching highly popular natural beekeeping classes domestically and abroad for over 35 years (both in English and Spanish), and has written the world-renowned book “Top-Bar Beekeeping: Organic Practices for Honeybee Health”, which has sold and continues to be sold all over the world.
Nathalie B. is the creator and owner of Bee Mindful, She is most happy spending time with bees, nurturing them without the use of any pesticides in the hives, the most common practice used by 95% of beekeepers today to keep pests at bay.
Nathalie is a firm believer that bees kept naturally are much more resilient and healthy than treated bees, and therefore more able to thrive in the face of pests and pathogens. She is a professional educator and passionate advocate of Natural and Biological Beekeeping methods.
She was recently hired by the Republic of the Congo government to design and lead their country-wide beekeeping training program for their network of local farming trade-schools, and has spent a major part of 2019 on-site working with African honey bees and setting up teaching apiaries while writing training manuals.
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DISCOUNTS END OCTOBER 19.