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Honey Timbers

We aren't your "average" Beekeepers!

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Clarksdale, MO
64430

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About Us!

Who doesn’t love some yummy golden honey! We have some pretty incredible product lines coming your way for 2020! If you or someone you know suffer from allergies... finding honey, pollen pellets, or beeswax as close to your home as possible has been said to help lessen allergy ailments. We will not outsource our beeswax, pellets, or honey so you can rest assured you’re getting only local (Plattsburg, MO) honeybee products! Something else that’s unique about our lines... everything is 100% natural!

Jeff Tredway: Born and raised in New London, NC. Jeff moved to Holt, Mo at age 15. In 2009 he purchased his first home hoping one day he could purchase additional land surrounding his home and build the orchard and garden he’d always wanted. Jeff grew up helping his Grandparents raise and maintain a HUGE 5 acre garden which gave him the knowledge and know-how of what it takes to have strong produce. PeePaw (his grandfather) had numerous fruit trees, all kinds of vegetables, and a family friend kept his beehives there to ensure pollination. While the grandkids were always warned to stay away from the hives, Jeff always remembered how important they were and always had a fascination with them.

Stacy Foster: Born in Albany, MO, and raised in NW Missouri. Stacy also moved to Holt, Mo at the age of 16. Stacy grew up in a family of 8 where gardening was a way of life to survive. She actually hated everything about the garden due to the overwhelming amount of work it took. As she got older, she wanted nothing more than to get back to her roots and have a garden of her own. The memory of stocked shelves full of canned goods in the basement isn’t something everyone had the opportunity of indulging in.

We have 3 wonderful daughters that are less than impressed with the bees and the garden however one day we hope they will want to follow in our footsteps by being proud to grow their own food, can their own food, and know we did what we could to instill some old fashioned values in them!

In 2016, through a few family member’s persistence, Jeff and Stacy met. In October of 2017, they moved in together and the discussion of our first garden began! In the spring of 2018, we started our first raised bed garden. We grew an absolutely gorgeous garden in the summer of 2018, although Stacy couldn’t manage to keep many herbs alive. Oops! We canned 4 different kinds of pickles, V4 juice, spaghetti sauce, tomato sauce, pickled jalapenos, jalapeno jelly, peach ghost jelly, strawberry jelly, and many more different kinds of jelly. Jellies were Stacy’s favorite to can! Over many discussions, we knew that a successful garden cannot be done without bees. When Jeff mentioned getting honeybees to Stacy, she thought he was crazy! Who purposely brings 150k+ bees near their home? Only crazy people right? It was an instant NO WAY! Well, all he had to do was plant the idea in Stacy’s head, let her think he was insane, & let her research a little. A few months later, he came home from work and I told him I thought it was the BEST idea! That very night, he placed an order for the first hive bodies! We attended classes, joined support groups, read and watched every blog, article, and YouTube video we could on raising bees over the next 6-8 months. In April of 2019, our first two Nucs were ready for pick up. The very day we brought them home, we knew we wanted more. Jeff called the supplier and placed an order for two more Nucs. A month later, we brought those girls home too. We are now proud owners of 4 hives of Minnesota Hygenic honeybees! They are gorgeous, sweet, and so much fun to learn about and learn from!

What’s going on right now? (updated 2/13/20) The land purchase Jeff had been after since 2009 was finalized in December 2019!! YAY JEFF! We are gearing up for a hectic, overloaded, crazy busy yet awesome 2020!