Producers
Farmer Bee
beekeeper · small-batch honey producer · bee-rescue service · hive-services provider · beekeeping-equipment dealer
Plainwell, Allegan County, Michigan, United States
Farmer Bee Honey Company is a Michigan small-batch producer focused on sustainable backyard beekeeping. It harvests honey from individual Michigan hives, with batches traced to the colony and queen. Michigan wildflowers shape its seasonal honey. Farmer Bee also offers humane bee removal and relocation, hive setup and inspection services, and HiveIQ equipment.
About the Producer
A little history
Brian and Adra established Farmer Bee Honey Company to promote sustainable beekeeping and provide honey and bee products. No establishment date was located in the consulted sources.
How They Work
Beekeeping in practice
Producer-managed small-batch honey operation with direct online sales, batch and colony traceability, bee-rescue relocation work, client hive services, and retail sales of HiveIQ beekeeping equipment.
Where They Work
Location and reach
Plainwell, Allegan County, Michigan, United States
Plainwell, Michigan, United States
The official website footer identifies Farmer Bee Honey Company as located in Plainwell, Michigan.
Otsego, Allegan County, Michigan, United States
The Michigan Beekeepers Association's local-honey locator lists Farmer Bee Honey Company under Otsego, Allegan County. The listing supports a business-location association but does not establish that honey was harvested there.
Michigan, United States
The producer says its honey is harvested from single Michigan hives and refers to Michigan wildflowers. It does not disclose individual apiary localities in accessible page text.
Products & Specimens
What connects to this producer
Products listed by the Producer are kept separate from specimens held in the Collection.
Farmer Bee small-batch honey
Floral source: Michigan wildflowers
Documented origin: Michigan, United States
Origin detail: Region
The producer says every honey batch is traced to a single Michigan hive and describes its honey as shaped by Michigan wildflowers. No product-specific harvest locality, apiary name, or narrower floral determination was publicly retrievable from the consulted shop and site pages.
People
People connected to the work
- Brian Co-establisher / beekeeper
- Adra Co-establisher / beekeeper
Practices
How they work
- Honey is harvested in small batches and represented as traceable to an individual hive/colony, including the queen.
- Honey is marketed as raw and local.
- Bee rescues aim to remove and relocate colonies, brood, and comb into managed hives rather than exterminate colonies.
- The company advocates sustainable beekeeping and community education about bees and pollinators.