A large part of our success as beekeepers is the lovely farms and farmers we get to know while tending bees and making honey.  It’s an absolute joy and honor to work with dedicated organic farms and farmers of Southern Oregon. We place our bees on the certified organic lands of Pacific Botanicals, Herb Pharm, Oshala Farm, Plaisance Ranch, Siskiyou Seeds, Ground Up Farms, Alexandre Family Farms, and many other smaller organic farms.

Many of these relationships go both ways and we consider ourselves farm partners, or the proud pollinators of the farm, and we enjoy selling our honey at their farm stands and their produce at ours.  We also keep bees at farms that are not certified organic, but we know and respect the land owner and have farmer-to-farmer conversations about any potential harm to our bees’ health. These farmers also care so much about the land and the bees, that we feel 100% satisfied that our bees are in good hands and care on their farms.

We couldn’t do what we do without the transparency and overall helpful nature of these farmers who care about our mission as natural beekeepers with naturally-reared queens and locally adapted genetics for our colonies.  In the winter, our bees go to the foothills of the Sierra Mountains very close to Yosemite.  It’s a humongous and gorgeous land that is sacred and well cared for. The bees love spending the winter there, and we humans enjoy the sunshine as well.  

Our own farm, as it’s commonly called, the Diggs, is home to prolific gardens, lots of chickens and ducks, Nubian/Boer goats, and big open spaces for wildness.  We are surrounded by public lands near the Siskiyou wilderness and adjacent to the East Fork of the Illinois River.

We started our journey as organic farmers and the agrarian philosophy of minimizing inputs from outside the farm and instead trying to provide all the components of what the farm needs to flourish - is the basis of regenerative agriculture - and how we try to create systems with the intention for more ease.

Our farm is in the process of needing to grow more soil because much of it was mined and parts of it are old riverbed; so in order to do that, we are increasing the number of animals on the farm and always appreciate lots of bee poop.  There’s a 2.5-acre pond in the middle of the land and we face due East - exactly facing Hope Mountain- where we feel divine moments of perfect sunrises.

We are working on creating a healing space and sanctuary for honey bees and people on the land.  We are building hive huts so that guests/students/clients can receive therapeutic hive air and buzz with the frequency of the bees.

Please check out our Instagram profiles, @air_bee_n_bee, and @honey_bee_healing_arts for more information. One of our hive huts will also serve as a farm stand where folks can purchase farm-related goodies and receive a beekeeping education.