Bill our beekeeper, learned beekeeping more than 40 years ago when he started working for a local Commercial Beekeeper while still in high school as a summer job. He continued working with bees' after graduating up until his mid twenties. Beekeeping in those days was simpler in comparison to todays standards. Foul brood was the biggest worry, and of course pesticides. Now bees are afflicted with mites, viruses, and systemic pesticide requiring vigilance of the beekeeper to never let the bees fend for themselves. 

Today, B & E Honey Farms manages 165 colonies in the Watsonville area and we are still growing! We have experience in providing healthy colonies for honey bee pollination services for farmers. If you one acre or two-hundred, we will provide your pollination needs.