Okie Bee Farms

10/12/2024

Okie Bee Farms is at Brush Creek Bazaar this weekend! Come on out and enjoy some live music, food and crafts. Pick up some of your favorite products and get some holiday shopping done.

10/02/2024

Day 7 of 11 days of awesome! Do you need a gift for the holidays, a wedding, or a birthday? Come visit Okie Bee Farms at the fair and take home a handmade piece of pottery made by local artist Jezz Strutt-Sperry of Pottery by Jezz.

10/01/2024

Day 6 of 11 Days of Awesome! Give a fun and functional gift for a kitchen. Made by local seamstress and quilt queen Fergy’s Designs. Stop by the Okie Bee Farms booth in the Exchange Center and pick some up.

09/28/2024

Day three of eleven days of awesome! Come by and check out our “sharkuterie” board and other kitchen boards made by local artist David Boynton of DABAKH studios.

09/26/2024

11 days of awesome is here!! Come check out local businesses and artisans in the Exchange Center where the Made in Oklahoma people are located. Pick up some of your favorite Okie Bee Farms products to take home and enjoy or give as gifts.

09/14/2024

Okie Bee Farms is at Scotfest in Broken Arrow. Come on out and pick up some of your favorite products. Enjoy the great music and the Highland Games. We are located inside the BA community center on Main Street.

09/14/2024

Come out to Scotfest and join the fun! Okie Bee Farms is located in the community center. Pick up some of your favorite products and enjoy the festival. Friday 5pm - 11pm, Saturday 9am - 11pm and Sunday 9am - 6pm.

08/24/2024

Come see us at the Spirit Fair at Stoney Creek hotel in Broken Arrow. It is Saturday and Sunday 11-6. Start your holiday shopping early and pick up some great Okie Bee Farms products.

08/16/2024

Okie Bee Farms will be at Tulsa Spirit Fair August 24th & 25th from 11-6. Come by and pick up your favorite items!

07/21/2024

Come see us at the Spirit Fair! Saturday and Sunday in Midwest City.

03/23/2024

Come support Oklahoma businesses at OK Go Market today. We are in the Exchange Center at Expo Square until 5 pm. Pick up some of your favorite Okie Bee Farms products!

03/10/2024

Come get the buzz from pollinators on the importance of honey bees and their products! Today is the last day of the HBA Tulsa Home & Garden Show. Pick up your favorite Okie Bee Farms products and check out all the cool things for your home and garden.

03/09/2024

Come see Okie Bee Farms at the 75th annual HBA Home and Garden Show! The HBA is giving thousands of dollars in showbucks away to celebrate 75 years. We are in the Made in Oklahoma section near the west end. Pick up all your Okie Bee Farms favorites.

03/08/2024

This is a great show!! Come to Expo Square and find all you need for your home improvements this spring. You can pick up your favorite Okie Bee Farms products!

Our first Show Bucks! was redeemed at Okie Bee Farms one of the Made in Oklahoma Program vendors! Celebrating 75 years of the Greater Tulsa Home & Garden Show!

02/17/2024

Okie Bee Farms will be at the Tulsa Spirit Fair this weekend! Come get some of your favorite products and spread some positive energy.

01/06/2024

We are at the OKC Spirit Fair! Come join us and pick up some local honey products, and check out all the vendors.

10/20/2023

I have heard of this and thought this article was interesting.

The Haunted History of Beekeeping.
Image: 1897 - Telling The Bees

Historical Honeybee Articles - Beekeeping History

In some localities in England, bees are invited to funeral’s, and a formal invitation is even sent to them. In Normandy bees are treated as a member of the family, and the dead person is always referred to as a relative of the bees. The death of any member of the family was announced to the bees, thus; your father, mother, brother, sister, uncle, and so on is dead. Among superstitions relating to sympathy between bees and their owner, is the belief that bees suffer great anguish over the loss of their master and the hives must therefore be put in mourning to pacify their sorrowing occupants; for unless this is done, the bees will either never afterwards prosper, die or abandon their hives. If their master died, his widow or nearest relative went out to tell the bees that their master was dead, and put the bees in mourning by draping a black cloth around the hives where they are kept in mourning for six months, during which time the bees are said not to hum. It has frequently been asserted, that bees sometimes take the loss of their master so much to heart, as to leave their hives, alighting upon the coffin whenever it is exposed to show affection to their loved one and to pay lasts respects.

London Review, 1837 and misc. sources.
Image: pg 14 1879 The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine Volume 18

10/20/2023

These are very informative for beekeepers. Hosted by an amazing group of folks at Bee Culture Magazine.

At Home Beekeeping Webinar

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