Missouri Ozarks · 417 · since 2008

Honey, raised
in Missouri.

Single-origin honey pressed by the season, beeswax body care made in the same workshop, pollination contracts for Ozark growers, and a backyard program — Bee Nooks — that puts a hive on your block.

Region
Missouri Ozarks
Established
2008 · 18 seasons
Bee Nooks
Hosted statewide
Contracts
Open for '26
Show Me Honey Co — classical bee mark
— show me,
don't tell me.
Raw & unfiltered Single-origin Missouri Pollinating Ozark orchards Bee Nooks statewide
What we stand for

Honest work, made visible.

A single brand spanning jars on the shelf, hives in the orchard, and Bee Nooks in the neighborhood. The essence is the same in every register: we raise the bees, press the honey, and put our phone number on the label.

— show me, don't tell me.
Bee Nooks · Host Program

A small hive,
lived-with.

We bring the bees, you bring the yard. A managed honey-bee colony in a small footprint — backyards, rooftops, schools, restaurants. We do the visits and the harvests; you get the pollination, the jar of honey, and the neighborhood-best garden.

A Bee Nook on Elm Street.
Year two, season one.
Schoolyard hive — Mrs. Crain's third grade.
Restaurant rooftop, downtown Springfield.
By August, the tomatoes know.
For growers

Pollination, contracted.

Forty-eight colonies, delivered the week before bloom, monitored weekly through set-out. You get reports. We get the bees home alive. Honest pricing, no surprise re-bills.

  • ✓ Weekly hive monitoring
  • ✓ Documented set-out and pull schedules
  • ✓ Loss-rate transparency, every contract
  • ✓ Ozark-region coverage, expanding
See contract terms
2026 Contracts

Now booking for spring set-out.

Apples · Pears · Peaches · Berries · Specialty crops. Service area: 417 + adjacent counties.

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[founder portrait]
Our Story · est. 2008

Eighteen years of slow honey.

Started in 2008 with one hive in a back pasture outside Springfield. Eighteen seasons later it's [TBD] colonies, a half-dozen pollination contracts, and Bee Nooks in towns we'd never been to before we put a hive on their block.

We don't import nucs from Florida. We don't pump our jars with corn syrup. We don't pretend Missouri honey tastes like California honey or Florida honey. It tastes like clover and Ozark rain and the meadow it came from — and that's the whole point.

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