Our journey began in 1999 with a single hive on a small farm outside Corvallis, Oregon. Over the years, that spark evolved into a way of life. Through seasons of abundance and loss, we learned that true hive health emerges from working with nature—from designing systems that support the bees’ own intelligence.
That understanding became the foundation of Natural Nest Beekeeping—a system rooted in the honey bee’s instinctive nest design: to start small and nadir with an empty box, allowing the colony to grow its combs downward while storing honey above. Our approach emphasizes uninterrupted brood combs, honey-fed nutrition year-round, naturally reared queens, walk-away splits, and cedar hives built with thicker walls for natural insulation. We manage without synthetic miticides, antibiotics, or plastics, honoring the hive as both a medicine chest and a healer of the Earth.
