Here at Desert Creek Honey we employ over 500 million bees to bring you the most raw, all natural, and pure Texas honey! Visit desertcreekhoney.com!
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Desert Creek Honey is family owned and operated! We take great pride in our honey that is both produced and bottled by us. Our liquid honey is always raw, all natural, and only from Texas and produced, packaged, and sold all by us! www.desertcreekhoney.com
05/27/2025
Say HELLO to Tree Hive: the newest products from Desert Creek!Start your mornings right with our Maple Syrup + Honey (yes, made with the raw Desert Creek Honey you already love) and our light, fluffy, Gluten-Free Pancake & Waffle Mix.
To celebrate the launch, we are sweetening the deal, just for you. Try our new Tree Hive mix for up to 30% off!
Today, we celebrate the tiny heroes that make a huge impact on our worldāthe bees. At Desert Creek Honey, weāve built our mission around honoring and protecting these incredible pollinators who work tirelessly to bring life to our food, flowers, and fields.
10/30/2024
Watch Blake talk bees and Desert Creek Honey on Texas Today! Hear about how the company started, preview some of our new products, and learn a little more about our amazing bees.
Enjoy raw, never-filtered honey from Desert Creek Honey.
10/03/2024
Be sure to tune into START UP this weekend! This national television series will feature a behind-the-scenes look at Desert Creek Honey, The Bee Supply and our Founder, Blake Shook.
The episode will air this Saturday, Oct 5th at 6pm CT on KERA Dallas PBS and again on Sunday, October 6th at 11:30am CT nationwide on World Channel. www.pbs.org/show/start
06/07/2023
Happy Wednesday from the bee yard! Even though temps are heating up, the bees are still super busy!
09/14/2022
Our bees (and us) are sooo happy the crazy hot summer is over! There is finally some cooler weather and fresh flowers blooming!
04/13/2022
Did you know that almost 80% of honey sold in the USA is imported from other countries?
Now more than ever, know where your food comes from!
04/05/2022
Check out this HUGE bee swarm! When a hive grows too large, half the bees with the old queen swarm away to find a new home. Even though it looks pretty intimidating, they are typically very gentle when swarming.
04/02/2022
Check this out!! Thanks for the opportunity Fresh by Brookshire's!
Another local product that we absolutely love (and have on our shelves), Desert Creek Honey Co. š
Blake Shook started with a single beehive at age 12 in 2002 and now owns thousands of beehives in Blue Ridge, TX. Desert Creek Honey offers raw, never filtered honey for a hive to table experience. The company even does all their own beekeeping and packaging.
Buy their Raw & Unfiltered Honey, from their honeybees from our Fate, TX location today!
03/17/2022
You can always find our honey on Amazon Prime if you'd rather shop in your PJs from home! We won't judge...it's what we do.:)
03/07/2022
Deep breath...here we go! The busy season for beekeepers is here. This is the time of year our crews work non stop, day and night to make sure our bees are healthy & ready to produce honey!
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Two things fascinated me growing up: the outdoors, and starting my own business. I experimented with every business I could dream up as a kid living in rural Texas. Lemonade stands, (not much traffic on country roads) raising and selling vegetables and fresh eggs, (hard to grow things in dust) painting the farmerās fences next door, (ran out of fence) but nothing was ever quite the perfect fit. My big break came in 2002 at 12 years old. I really had never been that interested in beekeeping before, because, bees just sting right? But, my parents convinced me to sign up for a scholarship that offered kids all they needed to get started in beekeeping. I had never won anything for free, so I was super excited when, to my surprise, I won a free beehive, and classes to help me get started in beekeeping. Two classes in, I fell in love with beekeeping. Iāll never forget the thrill of watching my own bees work to gather honey, or the amazement of tasting honey from my own beehive! Everything they did fascinated me!
I built my first building by cutting down trees for lumber on my parentās land, and using recycled sheet metal. It had no electricity, water, floor, or air conditioning, but it was perfect. I spent days and nights building new beehives and planning for the future. I decided in high school that I wanted to share my passion for bees with everyone else, and began growing my business and selling honey to a few friends and family. A local health food store called āMikeāsā was the first real customer I had. John Talbert was in his 70s, and was my hero & mentor who inspired me to become a commercial beekeeper and helped me grow in the early days.
Back then, every label on every jar was hand applied and I delivered every case of honey in person from my grandfatherās 1988 Ford truck. All of the sudden, everyone wanted more and more honey! I added beehives to my operation, delivered honey every morning before sunup, rushed through school, and worked late into the night again with my bees. When I was 17, I became the president of the local beekeeping club that gave me my first beehive. I was honored by the opportunity to give back to the people that gave so much to me. By the time I graduated high school in 2008, I had several hundred beehives, and was selling honey all over my local area. I upgraded to a 1995 pickup, and worked bees all day, and bottled and delivered honey by night.
But, I had a choice to make. Do I slow down the bee business, and go to college, or do I continue with my success, and put college plans on hold? As I was attempting to decide, I also become the president of the Texas Beekeepers Association, and a director for the American Beekeeping Federation. I didnāt know it yet, but I had also met my future wife two years before. By the time graduation rolled around, she didnāt know it, but I was convinced she was the girl I had to marry. So, I decided beekeeping was already my passion, and I knew I could make a living doing it, and chose to give it 110%. I never looked back. At 20 I married Kathleen. We spent 10 days on our honeymoon- the longest I had been away from bees since I was 12.
Since then the company has grown to several thousand beehives, and I still care about each jar and beehive like they were my first. I donāt get to hand deliver every jar to each customer now, but I do get to work bees every week during the busy season. Iām still amazed by them every day. I get to serve on the National Honey Board to help promote honey in the USA, and the American Beekeeping Federation to help promote beekeeping. Bees & beekeeping have been a part of me almost as long as I can remember. Thatās why, even as we grow, we are always beekeepers first.
