How It Started

Elpitha started beekeeping in 2016 with the desire as a bucket list item to try out beekeeping! The first few years were filled with learning, and learning can come with misfortune. She's lost several colonies to bad winters, verroa mites, wax moths, bear encounters, and so fourth. She kept striving to do what she loved and continued to keep bees and try to grow up each hive into a mature honey-producer which is no easy task.

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Elpitha also has a green thumb, or as the family says "green hands," that cultivated a vast and beautiful English-style garden paradise in the yard, making it the ultimate honeybee haven. They have lavender, wildflowers, herbs, and much more. They have many deer in the neighborhood, making gardening a difficult task to keep up with. On many occasions has her husband Tom suggested using his shotgun on a few of them, but as much as she hates the deer eating her plants, won't allow "bambi" to be shot. The battle of deer vs gardener continues to the present day.

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After years of hard work, the summer harvest of 2023 brought a bountiful harvest of roughly 5 gallons of honey! In the 2024 season they collected over 20 gallons of honey, and the same in 2025. ​