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Bell Farm Iowa source for locally raised and wintered queens, bees, and honey. Ellen manages anywhere from 50-500 colonies of bees, depending on the time of year.
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Ellen Bell founded Bell Farm in 2014 when she and her family moved from the city to the country with 2 beehives and a dream. Over the years, we have raised chickens for meat and eggs, grown a variety of produce for local restaurants, operated a CSA program, and grown our beekeeping operation significantly.
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Today, we still operate our business on our 10 acre farm, about 12 miles southeast of Des Moines, Iowa. While we do still keep chickens (thus the origin of our logo), our primary line of business continues to be beekeeping. We teach a variety of beekeeping classes, raise our own queens, and sell bees to beekeepers around the midwest.
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If you are interested in beekeeping, local food, or small-scale, sustainable agriculture, we hope you'll follow along with us on our journey.

This coming Saturday you’ll find us popping up at Allspice Culinarium in the East Village! We’ll be sampling all our dif...
10/12/2026

This coming Saturday you’ll find us popping up at Allspice Culinarium in the East Village! We’ll be sampling all our different types of honey, so be sure to stop by and say hi! 🍯🐝❤️

We are looking forward to this event next month!
10/11/2026

We are looking forward to this event next month!

This weekend you’ll find us at the Runnells Autumn Harvest Craft & Vendor Fair! 🍂 At the elementary school from 9-3, thi...
10/08/2026

This weekend you’ll find us at the Runnells Autumn Harvest Craft & Vendor Fair! 🍂 At the elementary school from 9-3, this one includes lots of fun stuff for the whole family: free make & take crafts, face painting, scholastic book fair, a fall photo shoot, pumpkins… so much going on! 🎃

10/06/2026

Fall means wasp season! This time of year, roughly 9 out of 10 phone calls we get about “bees” are actually wasps. Make it easy on yourself (and your local beekeeper): take a pic and Google it before you call. 😉 Because no, we do not want your wasps. Thank you very much. 😘🫶🐝

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10458 SE Vandalia Drive
Runnells, IA
50237

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+15159669348

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