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Our Values

 Business is what we make.  All this “it’s just business” or “that’s how we’ve always done it” says little about business and a lot about the speaker.  At Drew’s Honeybees, we go after good with our whole soul.  We began without connections, influence, relevant education, expertise, and money.  And yet we’ve created better.

Drew's Honeybees: Do Some Good

  • Hard Truths: At DHB, we’re beekeepers.  We know, with painful intimacy, the struggles of bees.  Too often, we look at specific problems of bee health and ignore how bees live.  Where do they live?  What do they eat?  What are they exposed to?  Should bees live in landscapes with access to one flower?  Would you be healthy eating one thing for three weeks, however nutritious it might be?  Should bees live where nerve agents are common?  Would you be healthy living amid nerve agents engineered to kill you?   We lament when bees die in staggering numbers.  But we shouldn’t be surprised.  Farming currently puts industry over biology.  That is madness.  Humans and bees will do better when we drop it.  

  • Drew pointing at Bees in honeycomb

  • Hands in earth

  •  We are exhausted and saddened by companies’ dishonestly cherry-picking from studies and ignoring the rest to sell you shit you don’t need.  That is clearly profitable.  From us, it’d be a lie.  We care for science enough to keep its rigor.  Science, after all, is our path to a healthier, buzzier bee.  We owe her. We sell great honey, lip, and body balms.  Our integrity is not for sale. 

You Deserve Better Innovation: Consumer goods companies are bad at innovation.  They have billions, connections, education, expertise, and renown.  There is surely plenty of evidence to act.  And yet it took a
beekeeper to create a plastic and plasticizer-free lip balm tube.  Our secret?  It’s meaningful to strive for good things.  It’s fun.  It’s a good way to spend each day.  It’s not a business creed.  It’s a way to live a life.

Meet Drew's Honeybees Team

  • Amber - Omelette Lover

    Amber - Packaging & Brand Design

    Amber creates the honest, sustainable, and human design of Drew's Honeybees, always keeping an eye to what could be. She went to school at Pratt Institute in NYC for Communication Design. At Pratt, she won two Graphic Design USA Awards and cooked kimchi fried rice and egg daily. Amber dreams of someday venturing to Antarctica.

  • Arno - Killah Bee Cowboy

    Arno - Head Beekeeper

    Arno comes to DHB from South Africa. Arno battles with honey badgers to keep Africanized “killer” bees at home. Yah, he’s kind of a cowboy 🤠 Arno brings invaluable experience from many years of industrial beekeeping. Arno and Drew are working toward keeping honey bees in ways that are good for business, honey bees, and native pollinator ecology.

  • Bear - Ain’t wild things grand?

    Bear - Ungovernable Destroyer

    Financially, I’ve caused Drew some problems. I’m a bear. To borrow from Biz Markie, he’s got what I need. But here’s an odd not-so-secret. Drew loves me. Loves me.  His eyes are never wider than when discussing me. In such funny ways I bring out the best and worst in you mangey bipeds. I hope you have the goodness to leave some wilds for me. You’ll miss me when I’m gone.

  • Drew - Chief Butterfly Wrangler

    Drew - Founder

    Drew values the noble work of others–even if we never know their names. From time with bees and alongside farmers, Drew sees redemption in agriculture done well. This belief keeps him hustling daily, vowing a verse from Springsteen’s Youngstown will never describe his treatment of others- “Once I made you rich enough/ rich enough to forget my name.”

  • Long Tall Sally - Kind of a Big Deal

    Long Tall Sally - Chief Matriarch

    Sally heads a dynamo hive in Canterbury, Connecticut. Her daughters are gentle, industrious and somehow kick the pestilential Varroa destructor’s butt. We take no position on whether Sally is built for speed. 💁‍♀️💨😉

  • Michael - Chief Bug Officer

    Michael - Web Developer

    Michael makes the website happen–he takes all the crazy ideas, puts his head down and makes them real. He is a University of California Santa Cruz Computer Science graduate, where he excelled in programming site-crashing bugs.  Outside of Drew's Honeybees, he loves automobiles, gaming, and yummy food from sustainable farming.