The Fite Estate Honey Corporation

05/10/2025

It’s Mother’s Day weekend!

Come celebrate mom with us at the Muskogee Farmer’s Market and the Tahlequah Farmer’s Market.

After all didn’t your mom say, “be sure to eat your fruits and vegetables?!”

It’s your turn to bring her home some fresh:
Cut flowers
Herbs
Vegetables
Fruits
Meat
Micro-greens
Nuts
Honey

Hug your mom!
She literally made you who you are.

Hug your local farmer! (If they will let you)
They literally keep you fed

I have the luxury of doing both at the same time. Raised on the Mootz Farm and Ranch, we always had dairy cows, corn, chickens, pigs, apples, cider, and bees…

Thank you Ann Bogler for teaching me how to respect nature and appreciate all the beauty that can be found just a short walk from the asphalt.

I will be buying my mom some fresh cut flowers and some herbs for dinner tomorrow.

Come join us and mention this post or show that you shared this post (most shares gets a special free cookie) to receive free honey and gifts for all our moms out there.

05/10/2025

05/09/2025

Fite Estate Honey Co.

Boxes built onsite. Picking up more bees to bring to their “forever home”

03/21/2025

Have fresh honey and lots of honeycomb. Five bee colony rescues in 10 days. Muskogee, Fort Gibson, Tahlequah, Porter, Broken Arrow blend.
7.75 gallons…
Was more, but needed for feedstock for the new colonies.

And only what was taken was what was destroyed in the wind storm (most were tree rescues from trees falling in the heavy winds.)

This rescue was the most fun. Tree fell on a friends house. Bees came pouring into the house, not good. Plus the roof needed some immediate repair.
Thank you to the brave souls who ran the excavator!

02/26/2025

Bee Swarm Season Starts Early For 2025!

All of Oklahoma, west Arkansas, and southern Kansas:

We perform non-invasive bee extractions that are beneficial to the bees and homeowner. We will not ever kill or injure a colony. Bees are protected by Oklahoma laws and regulations to ensure a critical part of our ecosystem survives and flourishes here in Oklahoma, providing essential pollination of crops and orchards, etc.

Bees are extracted by:
First: trying to coax the bees out of your home and into our swarm traps using all natural pheromones. This works most times, but remember “your” bees chose their home in your home or barn and may not want to leave voluntarily.

Second: if the bees won’t move voluntarily, it is necessary to remove them manually. Without pesticides or killing them. (Killing bees is unlawful and immoral). This requires finding the extent of the hive using sight and thermal imaging. Extraction from a house requires careful planning and time. Safely removing 100,000 bees requires training and equipment. We will go over a plan with you that is the most non-invasive method to manually remove bees from the structure.
Each removal is different and unique. There is no set method as each home is designed differently and each bee colony specialized for their environment.
We do free estimates, we never kill, our team is comprised of professional apiary experts. And we will “re-home” “your bees” to a farm or ranch where they will be put into production working an orchard or organic farm.

The extraction in the video was from the crawl space of a farmhouse in Muskogee, Oklahoma. The colony is massive, 120,000 bees strong and filled 5 ten frame langstroth "Hoover Hive" deep brood boxes. "They" (the bees) moved the honey and wax themselves, all 400 pounds of it. Once the queen is safely captured and moved to their new home, she is isolated so that she cannot return to the farmhouse. Her loyal "subjects" move the colony to her new home, in the process removing the honey, comb, and wax from your home.

Why is this important? Killing bees in and around your home doesnt solve your problem, in fact it worsens it as I will explain. Yes, the bees are gone, but what becomes of the honey and wax left behind?
The abandoned honey is no longer maintained and will rot, mold, and mildew, forming a fermented stinky, rotten syrup "soup". This "syrup soup" attracts rats, mice, squirrels, raccoons, wasps, hornets, ants, carpenter bees (trust me, you dont want these in your home)... The stench of teh rotting, fermenting "soup" can last for months or even years, staining and warping floors, wood, ceilings, plaster, sheetrock, and siding - forever.
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02/13/2025

This article is interesting. I don’t send my bees normally to California, but I have been offered absurdly high rates to do so. However, almond blossoms don’t make much nectar and the bees often starve.

After winter, 90% of the nation’s managed honeybees are brought to California to pollinate almonds. But beekeepers are discovering alarming colony losses.

01/19/2025

It’s about bee swarm season in a few months. We perform non invasive bee extractions that are beneficial to the bees and homeowner. Will will not ever kill or injure a colony. Bees are extracted by:

First: trying to coax the bees out of your home and into our swarm traps using all natural pheromones. This works most times, but remember “your” bees chose their home in your home and may not want to leave voluntarily.

Second: if the bees won’t move voluntarily, it is necessary to remove them manually. Without pesticides or killing them. (Killing bees is unlawful and immoral). This requires finding the extent of the hive using sight and thermal imaging. Extraction from a house requires careful planning and time. Safely removing 100,000 bees requires training and equipment. We will go over a plan with you that is the most noninvasive method to manually remove bees from the structure.

Each removal is different and unique. There is no set method as each home is designed differently and each bee colony specialized for their environment.

We do free estimates, we never kill, our team is comprised of professional apiary experts. And we will “re-home” “your bees” to a farm or ranch where they will be put into production working an orchard or organic farm.

The Fite Estate Honey Corporation

01/18/2025

Due to a strange fluke, we have honeycomb. Which is extremely rare for this time of year.

What happened is that one of my hives was being attacked by a raccoon and the bees came out in the freezing cold to “defend the queen” and froze to death. They were successful in chasing off the raccoon (the deer camera footage is hilarious!!!), but too many died and the remainder were unable to keep the brood warm and they flash froze.

Like Pompeii froze. Some were actively cleaning each other’s pollen and depositing nectar. Only a few made it into uncapped nectar filled honeycomb. They vibrate in the honey and make it warm enough to live for awhile, but is a losing process, even if successful.

And yes, the bees were properly winterized, the raccoon tore the hive’s heating jacket.

So, anyway, I have about 20 jars of Yaupon Holly honeycomb, which is a fantastic, fruity flavor.

01/14/2025

Big sale on all summer 2024 honey. Need to make room for all spring stock that will be harvested in April.
10-15% off based on volume.
$1.00 now per ounce