Oak Cliff Bee Company

04/12/2024

02/14/2024

Happy Valentines Day to all my beekeepers and bee lovers out there 🐝💛 We been-long together ❤️

01/27/2024

It was a long day out in the bee yard today getting ready for the bee season! We are so excited to welcome a bunch of new colonies in our apiaries and are working hard to get their little homes ready 🏡 🐝 look how cute these little hives look 😍

01/26/2024

Exciting day at as we kick off our first meet up with the budding apprentice beekeepers! 🐝🌺 We’re thrilled to share our knowledge and inspect the hives on the property. They are doing great 🏞️🍯 Thank you Tyler for helping us out and to Whitney for the pics 📸 Stay tuned for more updates on the Club members beekeeping journey 🐝✨

01/18/2024

Texas Apiary Inspection Service doing their thing, making sure our beehives are top-notch! The inspector’s giving them a thorough check on this awesome sunny day. Our hives are looking mighty healthy and happy, just the way we like it! Thanks to Bill from for coming out today!

01/15/2024

Snow day and freezing temperatures in North Texas ❄️🧊 look at this beehive entrance covered in propolis. Bees use their natural building skills creating a protective seal at the entrance to stop the winter’s chill. Inside, they are buzzing in a tight cluster to keep the temperature at a stable 91°F and 97°F 🐝🔥🐝 that’s hard work too!

This is when I get a little nervous, their survival depends on their ability to stay warm for as long as the freeze is here. We fed the hives on Thursday just to give them some extra calories, I am confident they will all make it 😌

01/10/2024

Check out these cute honey bottles 🍯😍, carefully prepared for with some honey for our apiary here in ✨We are looking forward to the upcoming spring harvest from the club’s own on-site beehives 🐝🥳 Stay tuned for more updates on the three colonies we have there! Thank you for awesome the pics 📸

12/23/2023

Bee-lieve in the magic of the season 🐝✨Wishing you all the most special holidays filled with sweet moments and the simple pleasures of life 🍯🎄🥳 See you in 2024!

12/19/2023

My key takeaways from last week’s Honey Sensory Analysis course with and the . It was such a wonderful experience!! I am deeply fascinated about all aspects of honey and how to experience it through the senses. There is still so much to learn!

12/09/2023

It was a wonderful Texas winter day to do our oxalic acid treatment here at the Fiat apiary. Thanks so much to Summer, Tyler and Ken from for coming out and helping us today! And thanks for our little apprentice Max for being so brave!

12/01/2023

Here’s one of our queens! We did a deep dive in our hive yesterday and they look great! Look at that frame full of bees, we are so glad to see this heading into the winter. We still added some sugar bricks and probiotics to make sure they have a good nutrient supply for the next few weeks. We will be back to check our supplies in January.

08/20/2023

I just love being out early in the morning, hang out and work the bees! Then the heat gets almost unbearable and I don’t love it so much anymore 🥲 but still, we get it done 💪🏼💯

08/19/2023

Happy National Honey Bee Day! We love these girl and are grateful for their hard work in pollinating our crops, feeding us with produce and honey. They truly have superpowers!

Here’s 10 fun facts about or girlfriends:

1. Honey never expires – never!  Supposedly, there was a 1,000 year old jar of honey found in an Egyptian tomb, and the brave soul that dared tasting it said it was delicious.  We’ll take his word for it.

2. To produce 1 pound of honey, the honey bees have to visit an estimated 2,000,000 flowers and fly an estimated 55,000 miles.

3. 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey is produced per honey bee during its entire lifetime (which is a short 45 days during the summer).

4. The brain of a worker bee and honey bee tiny, but they have the densest neuropile tissue of any animal.

5. When the honey bees return to the hive (which they find easily because they have an impeccable sense of smell), they do a little dance to communicate with the other honey bees.  That dance helps the other bees find where the flowers are.

6. Nectar is 80% water, so the bees have to work together to pull some of the moisture out of the chewed up, enzyme goodness; to do this, they spread the soon-to-be-honey over the honeycombs. This helps the water evaporate much more quickly and leaves a yummy, gooey honey.

7. 2 tablespoons of honey can fuel a honey bee long enough to fly 1 time around the world.

8. The queen only eats royal jelly, which is created by the worker bees and helps plump up the queen.  It is unknown if it’s this jelly or because the queen is overly-spoiled, but she lives 50 times longer than any of the other bees.

9. Out of about 20,000 bee species, there are only 4 that make honey.

10. Honey is the only food that includes everything humans need to sustain life, including water, enzymes, minerals, and vitamins.

08/18/2023

Hey friends! I finally finished labeling all the bottles and I’m putting some up for sale 🍯✨ We harvested this back in July here at our Fiat Apiary at , so it’s 100% local Oak Cliff made, fresh from our local wildflowers 🌸🐝 Can’t get any better!

I only have a few bottles so you can comment or DM me if you would like me to save one for you. The bottle is $10 for 8oz and if you are from outside of Dallas there will be some shipping cost involved, but I would be happy to make a trip to the post office for you!

Either way, Chris and I appreciate all your support as we grow our little operation and put more bees and sweetness put in the world 💛

08/12/2023

Finally! The labels are in an I am so excited 🤩 We are going to put up a few bottles for sale next week so mark your calendars to get some fresh local honey 🍯✨

08/08/2023

A glimps of our small but mighty Clear Creek apiary in Mabank, TX. Chris and I went down last week to add an additional colony and the bees are doing great. Hives are full of honey and the fresh breeze of the countryside is definitely helping them feel cool and comfortable. Also big shout out to that is helping us look after the bees and feeding them regularly between inspections.

07/10/2023

Oak Cliff Bee Company is officially a GO TEXAN partner! Chris and I are proud to add this logo to our first batch of honey - we are off to a good start! Thank you for the warm welcome and for putting the spotlight on Texas-based business and agricultural products! We are proud to be part of it!

06/30/2023

The heat is on and the nectar flow is ending here in North Texas. Chris and I are getting ready to harvest out Oak Cliff wildflower honey and we are proud of our bees for working hard this season

This image was taken a month ago, when the field in our apiary was full of horsemint and we hope the honey is going to carry that spearmint aroma, and a sharp, slightly bitter taste. We cant wait to taste it!