Honey Pimp Apiaries

Honey Pimp Apiaries Providing superior natural bee products and services with flare! Let me first explain the name Honey Pimp Apiaries.

I was talking with a friend one day explaining what I was up to with my bees. I had mentioned that I lined up an organic farm that was very excited to have my bees come live on their property. She asked if I pay them to have the bees stay there and I mentioned no, the farms producing certain crops a lot of times pay bee keepers to get bees on their land. So she said to me "so you pimp your bees ou

t to farmers to work their crops"? I then said yes... and that's where Honey Pimp Apiaries came about! Currently our hives are located on three properties called apiaries. The first one is at Prairie Erth farm in Atlanta IL, the second is at Homestead Harvests LLC in Heyworth IL, and the third is in Downs Illinois. Each of these have a few things in common:
- They have forage for the bees through most of the growing season
- The properties do not use hazardous chemicals prophylactically
- They are environmentally minded and understand some of the issues negatively impacting pollinators today

With that said, the three sites produce different honeys based on available forage. I truly look forward to letting people taste the difference themselves instead of trying to describe it. People seem to get "it" when the flavor hits their tongue. As I learn more about bees and understand more of the issues, I'm now focusing on trying to manage my genetic stocks. I have suffered severe losses over the last 4 years and I plan to stop that going forward. My bees are all:

- Managed with NO man made chemicals
- Managed with screen bottom boards spring, summer, fall, and winter

I hope you enjoy this blog of sorts. Please jump in the conversation and leave us feedback as we go forward.

I feel like I’m being watched and judged by these lady’s! When we extract the loose bees head to the light. Some of them...
08/31/2026

I feel like I’m being watched and judged by these lady’s! When we extract the loose bees head to the light. Some of them would drop down where I was uncapping frames and crawl around my hair and neck. Don’t make any quick moves lol!

08/25/2026

Here is your chance BUT times running out to apply for a NAHBE nextgen scholarship for young beekeepers! We’ll see you at the expo!

Come join us for national honeybee day with outdoorveterans extracting honey at keggrovebrewco in Bloomington! 10am-3pm,...
08/15/2026

Come join us for national honeybee day with outdoorveterans extracting honey at keggrovebrewco in Bloomington! 10am-3pm, all are welcome, I’ll see you there!! If you’re a first responder, veteran, or gold star family why not come be part of the bee program??

08/14/2026

Help support the ruck!

We are getting the local bee club together to see The Rivals of Amziah King which is a movie about beekeeping at a comme...
08/12/2026

We are getting the local bee club together to see The Rivals of Amziah King which is a movie about beekeeping at a commercial scale. The star as you may recognize Matthew McConaughey who trained with real bees and used them in the filming instead of CGI etc..

If you’d like to join us and hang out with some local beekeepers after the showing then grab your ticket now! We’ll be at the Marcus Bloomington Cinema 1111 Wylie Dr Bloomington. The shows at 6:55pm and seats are filling up fast via presale.

We’ll be hanging out after the show to answer questions and talk bees!

See you Friday!

I highly recommend the Sprecher Brewery honey root beer for this! Don’t worry, you can still do it after 8/6 ;) Next lev...
08/08/2026

I highly recommend the Sprecher Brewery honey root beer for this! Don’t worry, you can still do it after 8/6 ;) Next level Wisconsin pro level, use Culver's vanilla ice cream!!

Happy National Root Beer Float Day! Celebrate with Sprecher🥳🫧

We are sad that we won’t be there but you should check it out! We’ll be back 8/12 and hope to see you then!
08/04/2026

We are sad that we won’t be there but you should check it out! We’ll be back 8/12 and hope to see you then!

‼️MARK YOUR CALENDARS‼️

07/27/2026

This is pretty amazing! These little $&/)$/@ are what impact the bees the most these days. They slip under the pupae just before they cap them to pupate. Silently they eat the fat body of the bee, lay eggs, in breed, and several emerge and move to the next larvae. About this time of year the bee production slows as nectar dwindles and the mites keep climbing sometimes causing hives to crash or start to show distress from virus and bacterial infections the mites carry and pass on to the bees.

07/15/2026

I sure enjoy this group when they play each season! Lots of familiar tunes!! Nice work gang!!

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19712 E 1000 North Road
Bloomington, IL
61705

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+16307281400

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