Yeah Honey

06/03/2026

🍯 Cleanliness Matters at Yeah Honey 🍯

One question we occasionally get is: “How do you keep everything clean when harvesting and bottling honey?” The answer is simple, we take sanitation and food safety seriously.

Before starting Yeah Honey, Brandon spent nearly five years working in a USDA-inspected meat processing facility, Marksbury Farm Market. During that time, he worked in sanitation, where his responsibility was cleaning and sanitizing the entire facility to prepare it for the next day's production. He also worked in quality control and processing, gaining extensive experience with food safety standards and sanitation procedures. In addition, he earned a Food Safety Certificate while completing his Bachelor of Science in Agriculture degree at Kentucky State University.

As for Maggie, anyone who knows her knows she's a self-proclaimed neat freak. Cleanliness isn't something she turns on and off, it's simply how she operates every day.

All new harvesting equipment and jars are thoroughly washed with Dawn dish soap, sanitized and then rinsed again with hot water before use. During harvest season, equipment such as extractors, strainers and utensils are first allowed to be cleaned naturally by our hardworking honeybees and other pollinators which remove leftover honey residue. Afterward, everything is washed, sanitized and thoroughly rinsed with hot water before being stored or used again.

We process and bottle our honey right here in our home kitchen and we treat every jar as if it were going to our own family's table.

At Yeah Honey, we believe quality starts long before the honey reaches the jar. It starts with healthy bees, careful handling and a commitment to cleanliness every step of the way.

When you choose Yeah Honey, you're choosing local honey produced with pride, care and high sanitation standards.

🍯 Pure Honey. Clean Process. Quality You Can Trust. 🍯

— Brandon & Maggie

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05/31/2026

🍯 HONEY FOR SALE! 🍯

There’s something special about local honey. Every jar represents thousands of trips made by hardworking honeybees gathering nectar from flowers across our Kentucky countryside. The bees have been working from sunrise to sunset and we’ve been working right alongside them to make sure that sweet goodness makes it from the hive to your table.

This beautiful frame is packed full of capped honey which means the bees have finished their work and sealed it for harvest. It’s one of the most rewarding sights for a beekeeper and a reminder of just how incredible these little pollinators truly are.

Whether you enjoy honey in your coffee, drizzled over biscuits, mixed into tea or simply by the spoonful, there’s nothing quite like fresh, local honey straight from the hive. Supporting local beekeepers also helps support healthy pollinator populations that are so important to our gardens, farms and communities.

Thank you to everyone who has supported Yeah Honey this season. Your encouragement, shares, purchases and kind words mean more than you know. We love being able to provide locally harvested honey to our community and share a little bit of the bees' hard work with you.

✅ Raw Local Honey
✅ $13 per jar
✅ Porch Pickup in Lawrenceburg
✅ Cash, Venmo, or Cash App Accepted

Send us a message if you'd like to reserve a jar. Supplies are limited and once they're gone, you'll have to wait on the bees to make more!

🐝🍯 Yeah Honey – From Our Hives to Your Home 🍯🐝

05/30/2026

A few days ago I shared a video showing how I use a simple bucket as a swarm trap. I never expected that video to take off the way it did but it has now been viewed by tens of thousands of people. The comments were full of questions, skepticism, encouragement and plenty of people wondering the same thing:

"Did it actually work?"

Well, today you're getting the answer.

One of the things I love most about beekeeping is that the bees don't always follow what we think they should do. You can spend a lot of money on fancy equipment, read every book available and watch every expert online but sometimes a simple idea works better than expected.

Swarm season is one of the most exciting times of the year for beekeepers. A swarm is nature's way of creating a new colony. Thousands of bees leave their old home with a queen and begin searching for a new place to live. If you're lucky enough to provide a location they like, they'll move right in.

This video shows what happened when I opened that bucket to see if any visitors had decided to call it home. No tricks, no expensive setup, just a beekeeper trying something different and letting the bees make the final decision.

Whether you're a longtime beekeeper, someone thinking about getting started or just someone who enjoys watching nature do amazing things, I appreciate you following along on this journey. Every hive has a story, and every season teaches something new.

If you've been here since the first bucket video, thank you for coming back. If this is your first time seeing one of my posts, welcome to the page. Around here you'll find plenty of bees, honey, swarm catches, hive checks and honest beekeeping experiences from Central Kentucky.

Drop a comment and let me know: Would you have guessed a bucket could attract a swarm of bees? 🐝🍯

And if you enjoy beekeeping content, give the page a follow. We've got a lot more bee adventures coming.

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05/29/2026

The deeper I get into beekeeping, the more I realize how much we still don’t understand about honeybees and the natural world around us. Most people think bees only provide honey but there is growing research into apitoxin… bee venom and its potential effects on inflammation, pain, immune response and certain chronic conditions.

I’m sharing this article because I’ve personally experienced changes myself. After years of dealing with plantar fasciitis, repeated bee stings seemed to completely change the inflammation and pain I had struggled with. That experience opened my eyes and made me start paying closer attention to the connection between nature and healing.

For centuries, natural remedies were used long before modern medicine existed. Now science is starting to study many of those things again with a deeper understanding of the compounds and mechanisms behind them. Bee venom contains peptides, enzymes and anti-inflammatory compounds that researchers are actively studying today.

I’m not saying bee stings are a magical cure or that modern medicine doesn’t matter because it absolutely does. But I do believe God created this earth with purpose and there are countless things in nature we still haven’t fully discovered or understood yet.

Sometimes I think we’ve become disconnected from the idea that creation itself contains incredible design and potential. Honeybees are one of the greatest examples of that. From pollination, to honey, to propolis, to wax and even venom, these tiny creatures continue to surprise scientists and beekeepers alike.

The more time I spend around bees, the more respect I gain for them and for the Creator behind it all.

There is still so much left to learn 💛

Apitoxin therapy (BVT—bee venom therapy) is an emerging complementary treatment utilizing bee venom for various medical conditions. This review explores the potential and therapeutic mechanisms of bee venom, focusing on its chemical composition and ...

05/29/2026

Today I have one big hand and one little hand. I wasn’t going to let me forgetting my gloves prevent me from inspecting the hives yesterday evening.

05/29/2026

Remember the swarm I caught in a bucket, I’m transferring them to my other apiary and putting them in a langstroth hive body. They should be safe up here with me, I mean everyone else rides around with their pets… Why not me?