B&B Honey Farm

B&B Honey Farm We are your source for one or a truck load! It was a part time business that quickly expanded. In 1997 B & B Honey Inc.

B & B Honey Farm was founded in 1975 in Houston, Minnesota by Bill and Robin Bernacchi with the purpose of serving beekeepers within a 200 mile radius. It operated out of a barn, shed, and garage until 1980 when the first warehouse and showroom were erected. It was then a full time mail order house with its customer base expanding to a national level. In 1995 the second warehouse was erected to ho

ld the ever-expanding inventory. was informed as it entered into the “bee feed” market; High Fructose Corn Syrup and Liquid Sucrose. The growth of B & B Honey Farm has come from its exceptional personal service, knowledgeable employees, extensive product offerings, high quality products and competitive pricing. We are located about 4 ½ miles east of Houston, MN off HWY 16.

04/14/2026

Busy here getting ready for 3 # Package pickup next week! (April 20th, 21st & 22nd) Excited to see all our loyal customers and "new-bees" 🐝

04/06/2023

The packaged bees have been delayed a couple weeks. Revised pick up dates are looking like May 1st, 2nd, 3rd. We will call a couple days prior to them arriving to let you know more. Sorry for the delay!

03/16/2022

It's not too late, order your bees today. 3lb packages or 5 frame nucs still available.

03/22/2015

Happy spring!

07/03/2014

Did you know members of the honey industry lead by Dr. Roy grout, editor of American Bee Journal, recognized the value of bees for pollination but also the difficulty of subsidizing that service? They persuaded congress to establish a price support system for honey similar to those for other commodities. At the time, Grout wrote presciently that the (government) “fail[s] to understand that beekeeping through its pollination service, is the very basis of agriculture- that if there were no honey bees, our national economy could not exist at anywhere near its present level…honey is not just another commodity.” The beekeepers got their price support and over the next 25 years, government aid to beekeepers included outright purchases of honey, export payments and loan programs. The subsidy program worked tolerably well into the 1970s.

07/02/2014

Did you know adult female Varroa mites attach themselves to adult bees and are carried to uninfected hives? They burrow between the segments of an adult bee and suck the hemolymph from their bodies. To complete their life cycle, the mites then move into the combined banquet hall/lying-in hospital of the brood cells. They prefer drone brood cells but will also move into worker brood. There they stay dormant until the cells are capped. Then they lay their eggs on the pupae and the young mites feed off the hemolymph of the developing bee. As with many mite species, the first egg is a male, the second and following are females. Brothers and sisters mate in the cell. Male mites remain and die in the cells, but the females (mom included) emerge to start the cycle over again. The young bees are either killed in the cell or emerge injured or deformed, and are less healthy than uninfected bees.

06/25/2014

Did you know bees, as members of Class Insecta, share with other insects a body plan comprised of three major regions: the head, thorax, and abdomen?

06/20/2014

Did you know bee larvae are fed more than 1,000 times per day?

06/19/2014

Did you know farmers generally cut alfalfa for hay when about 10% of the plants are in bloom because it is protein rich and makes the most nutritious hay for their cattle? If it rains for several days just before a planned cutting and the farmers can’t proceed, the field will soon be full of alfalfa blossoms. The bees will win this round; they should harvest a large crop of honey.

06/17/2014

Did you know like most natural whole foods, bee pollen is a healthful choice with respect to dietary fats, with 2 rounded tablespoonfuls of pollen granules containing only 2 to 3 grams of fat? The dominant fatty acids in pollen are alpha-linolenic acid (an omega-3 fatty acid) and linoleic acid (an omega-6 fatty acid), both of which are polyunsaturated; oleic acid, which is monounsaturated; and palmitic acid, which is saturated.

Address

5917 Hop Hollow Road
Houston, MN
55943

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 4:30pm
Tuesday 8am - 4:30pm
Wednesday 8am - 4:30pm
Thursday 8am - 4:30pm
Friday 8am - 4:30pm
Saturday 8am - 12pm

Telephone

(507) 896-3955

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