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SweetNes Honey

Jan 06 2021

The story of SweetNes Honey

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How it all BEEgan: My fascination with bees began when I was eight years old. Our home in Houston, Texas, had a Wax Leaf Ligustrum shrub right outside our kitchen window. Every spring it would be buzzing with honeybees and other mesmerizing pollinators. I could spend hours watching them, and I soon discovered a passion for catching and releasing bees. I would use Ziplock bags to catch the bees and pop them into large plastic coke bottles (dry of course) with holes poked in them. I would keep count of how many I could get. Through my youthful scientific observations, I learned they were collecting the pollen from the flowers and storing it on their legs. My curiosity often resulted in my mom telling me to stop playing with the bees after doctoring up my many stings. Yet every time I would run back out to catch more. My friends would sit far away on the sidewalk to watch. I don’t know why they never wanted to catch bees with me?! By then, all of my friends and family referred to me as “Nes” or “Nessa” and I remember joking that if I ever owned a boat, I would name it SweetNes. The year was 1988 and I had never really heard much about beekeeping or beekeepers, nor did I really understand what they did. Never could I have imagined how the name SweetNes would come into play in the future!

Fast forward many years later, after school, college and many different jobs, I met my future husband Brent. We married and eventually moved to the suburbs of Sienna, in Missouri City, where we expanded our family with two super cute little boys and a dog named Sketch. I was working as an office manager and although I liked my job, it was not my passion. I hated being stuck indoors behind a computer screen on beautiful days. One evening while sitting in bed working on my laptop, I sat up and blurted out to Brent, “You know what I really want to do? I want to be a beekeeper!” Total silence. Then he looked at me like I had grown a third eye. He thought I was crazy.

The BEEquel: I started studying everything I could find about bees and beekeeping. I followed beekeepers on social media, collected books and joined all the local bee clubs I could find. I attended the Fort Bend Beekeepers Association and convinced a senior beekeeper to mentor me. He reluctantly did so. He was a grumpy guy, but I ran full speed ahead and caught my first swarm of bees in my own backyard! I was officially a beekeeper! By the end of the week, I had two, and by the end of the month I had six hives. I partnered up with another hobbyist beekeeper and we started providing bee removal services to our community. We did professional cutouts and repairs to safely remove the bees. Doing this resulted in our apiary growing rapidly. We continued doing bee removal for a few years. Meanwhile, Brent and I started a farmer’s market in our community and sold honey there as well. I bought a large block of beeswax from my mentor and started teaching myself how to make candles and other beeswax products.

My beautiful candles smelled amazing so I decided to create an Etsy shop to see if they would sell. I had to come up with a name for my shop and I already knew that SweetNes would be a part of it. SweetNes Honey Apiaries & Beetique was born in 2015.

Challenges come with opportunity: Our apiary was located on someone else’s property. Unfortunately, their property completely flooded during Hurricane Harvey and we lost over half of our bees. We decided to take the plunge and move to an acreage in Damon, Texas where we could rebuild and grow the business. We quickly built up our apiary and then some. I became the Vice President at the Fort Bend Beekeepers Association going on two years now. One of our members announced that they were retiring and selling off their entire honey business. My husband, being the entrepreneur that he is, jumped at the opportunity, and the next thing I know ‘HE’ is buying the business! Who is crazy now!? We went from 50 hives to 150. Never in a million years did I, or Brent, think that HE would become a beekeeper! HA! When I first started beekeeping, he got involved with the business side of it, but definitely not the bee side of it. Today he is elbow deep in bees with me and loves selling honey on the side of the road. We make a pretty good team overall. He is the analytical ‘big picture’ and numbers guy, while I am more creative, detail oriented and ‘it’s the small things that matter’ person. We harmoniously balance each other out.

Unique Selling Points: Here at SweetNes Honey Apiaries & Beetique we take pride in offering an array of all-natural high-quality products straight from our beehive. Pure raw unfiltered wildflower, clover, Tallow and Huajilla honey to name a few, creamed honey in an assortment of flavors, organically infused honey, honey sticks, fresh cut comb, pollen, natural beeswax in bulk, beeswax candles, balms and many other bee-made and bee-themed items. We do all of our own beekeeping and honey production. We are a family owned and operated Honey Farm, Honeybee Rescue and Beetique.

OUR PRODUCTS: Our sweet products can be found on our website at www.sweetneshoney.com or on Etsy at SweetNes Honey Beetique. We do doorstep deliveries ourselves to local places. If you are further away, we will promptly ship it to you. You can also find our products in many retail locations as well: Needville Feed & Supply, Novak’s Meat Market, Prasek’s Hillje Smokehouse, Hinze’s Country Kitchen, Silver Sycamore, Home Studio 6, H-E-B stores and more. You can also catch us from time to time at local farmers markets, Blessington Farms as well as Dewberry Farm. We love getting out and mingling with people and letting everyone try our products. If you ever have any questions about a specific product, where it’s available or just want to chat, give us a buzz at: hihoney@sweetneshoney.com

BEE-A-KEEPER TOURS: Have you ever wondered how honey is made? How bees work together inside their beehives? Or what exactly a beekeeper does? Well now you can experience just that! SweetNes Honey Apiaries & Beetique offers ‘Bee-a-Keeper Tour’ where you can explore all things bees! From bees and beekeeping to hive tools and honey – we will show you in detail what we do. You will be able to don a beekeeping suit, light a smoker and look deep inside an active beehive. You are free to take as many pictures and silly selfies with the honeybees as you like! People of all ages are welcome to come and tour our Honey House, where we process our honey, stroll the apiary here on site and learn about bees. We also have some adorable other furry friends roaming around waiting to be loved. Whether you are interested in becoming a beekeeper, or you just to want to fulfill an item off your bucket list, we are here to help!

OUR ASPIRATIONS: Our passion for bees goes much further than just harvesting that beautiful golden honey. We offer honeybee educational presentations to schools, boy and girl scout troops, small groups, networking events, environmental day events, corporate business events, families and even parties. We bring in an observation hive with live honeybees at work so that adults and children alike can take a peek inside the honeybee hive to see what the bees are up to. We bring items they can see, smell and touch, such as beekeeping equipment, products from the hive and even some honey sticks to take home. We want to teach as well as inspire creativity and a love for nature. We strive to bring awareness for our buzzy, fuzzy friends, the pollinators, and how important they are to our food supply and overall ecosystem.

The end of our story – for now. Thank you for taking the time to read about our story – we invite you to tune into the Latest Buzz for ongoing updates. Also, we are thrilled that our story has also recently been shared on the Texas Real Food website! Check out their version here.

SweetNes Honey Apiaries & Beetique
“A little something to make life sweeter!”

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Aug 02 2020

SweetNes Honey offers Bee-A-Keeper Tours

Bee A Keeper Tour

We are a family owned and operated Texas honey farm and honeybee rescue. We take pride in providing you with local honey straight from our beehives, along with other bee-made products.  Our passion for honeybees goes much further than harvesting honey. We strive to save the bees to ensure that they can continue to thrive.  

Now offering Bee-A-Keepr Tours!
Have you ever wondered how honey is made? How honey bees work together inside their beehives? Or what exactly does a beekeeper do? Well now you can experience just that! SweetNes Honey Apiaries & Beetique offers ‘Bee-a-Keeper Tour’ where you can explore all things bees! From bees and beekeeping to honey and hive tools. We will show you in detail what we do! You will don a beekeeping suit, light a smoker and look inside of a active beehive at work. You are free to take all the pictures and silly selfies you like with the honeybees!
Our passion for bees goes much further than harvesting honey. We strive to save the bees and to bring awareness to people of all ages of the importance of our pollinators.
We now offer tours which can be booked on our website at www.sweetneshoney.com  Don’t hesitate to contact us on our Honey Hotline at 832-303-1595 or hihoney@sweetneshoney.com
Look forward to seeing you and your family out soon.

 

Written by SweetNes Honey · Categorized: Latest Buzz

Jul 09 2020

Local Free Delivery & Mail Box Pickup Automated in Checkout now available at SweetNes Honey

SweetNes Honey Beetique

 

SweetNes Honey Apiaries & Beetique is proud to offer you our Local Delivery and Mailbox pickup now integrated into our online store checkout.   This is an easy way to stay stocked up on our sweet raw local honey products to fight allergies.  Just pick out your raw local honey in the many different sizes and styles we offer on our web-store https://shop.sweetneshoney.com and simply add to your shopping cart.  Upon check out with your address fitting our local free delivery (based on your zip code) your order will be delivered to your doorstep. (min $10 order applies)   Another option is when your in our area and want to pickup at our Bee Mailbox you can select this option as well and we will advise when your order will be ready for safe curbside pickup delivered by one of our beekeepers.

Here at SweetNes Honey Apiaries & Beetique we do all of our own beekeeping and harvest our honey from field to bottle to your families table.  We are very proud of our families honey farm and our family of bees.  We hope you enjoy our honey and come back for more soon!

SweetNes

 

For further information please contact us at hihoney@sweetneshoney.com or visit us at www.sweetneshoney.com

 

Written by SweetNes Honey · Categorized: Latest Buzz

Jun 08 2020

SweetNes Honey Apiaries & Beetique Bee Cycle Initiative 2020

DID YOU KNOW?  BEE-EDUCATED!

Oceans cover more than two-thirds of the earth’s surface and contain 97 percent of the planet’s water. Marine debris, including plastics, paper, wood, metal and other manufactured materials is found on beaches worldwide and at all depths of the ocean. About 60%-80% of all marine debris is composed of plastic. Worldwide, hundreds of marine species have been negatively impacted by marine debris, which can harm or kill an animal when it is ingested, or they become entangled and can threaten the habitats they depend on. Marine debris can also interfere with navigation safety and potentially pose a threat to human health. 

A 2014 study estimated that 8 million metric tons of plastic trash enter the sea from land every year, the equivalent of five plastic bags filled with trash for every foot of coastline around the world. Animals frequently become entangled in large pieces of debris, and can be cut, drowned, or slowed down by dragging the extra weight. Additionally, heavy gear, such as fishing nets, can damage reefs and other important habitats. Because of its durability, low cost, and our increased use in recent decades, plastic makes up the majority of marine debris seen on shorelines and floating in oceans worldwide. This creates a difficult problem because most plastics are not biodegradable (bacteria don’t break them down into simple, harmless components the way they do paper or wood). Instead, as plastic ages, the sun’s light and heat break it into smaller and smaller pieces creating microplastics. This tiny plastic confetti, along with larger pieces of floating plastic, creates a big problem. Birds and filter feeders that strain food out of the water may mistake plastic for plankton, fish eggs, or other food.

SweetNes Honey Apiaries & Beetique, cares not only for our buzzing honeybees and other pollinators, but for all of Mother Earths inhabitants! As beekeepers, parents and environmental activist, our goal is to improve our efforts and protect nature for future generations to come. We encourage you to REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE.  Reduce the amount of waste you produce. Reuse items as much as you can before replacing them. Recycle items whenever possible.

We offer ALL of our honey in glass jars. We understand the convenience of the squeezable, shatter-proof plastic bottles. We have kids, we get it! Shattered glass and sticky honey are terrible all over your floor! (yes, we’ve had this happen too!)

Just remember to REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE as often as you can!

Click on the link below to learn some FUN ways that you can REUSE our plastic bottles.  Can always call us toll free on our Honey Hotline at 1-877-SWTNES1

SNH Bee-Cycle Ideas

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Apr 30 2020

SweetNes Honey Apiaries & Beetique is now GO Texan

Go Texan

There’s no denying Lone Star pride!  GO TEXAN, with its signature market in the shape of texas, celebrates, promotes and supports the business savvy and plainspoken grit Texas agriculture is known for throughout the world.

SweetNes Honey Apiaries and Beetique is proud to be a member of this great GO TEXAN program here in our home state!  This endorses our Texas made products like our raw honey, chunk honey, honey comb straight from our hives in Fort Bend County, Brazoria County.

You will see the GO TEXAN logo stamped on our products while you enjoy our delicious bee-made products.  Don’t forget to check our our online store at 
https://shop.sweetneshoney.com

SweetNes Honey Apiaries & Beetique is a family owned and operated Texas Honey Bee Farm and Bee Rescue Company. We take pride in providing you with local honey straight from our beehives, along with other bee-made products. Our passion for honeybees goes much further than harvesting honey. We strive to save the bees to ensure that they can continue to thrive.  For more media contact us at: hihoney@sweetneshoney.com

 

 

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