Yazoo Honey & Bee Farm

08/07/2024

03/01/2024

Fresh Seamoss Gel Available at Dreamz Smoothie Bar+ Yazoo 🧡

Flavors available today
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02/10/2023

Stop by and grab your Honey some Honey 🍯, a Gift Certificate, some Cheesesticks, or a Valentine’s happy basket! 10:30-9:00! Yazoo Honey & Bee Farm

10/06/2022

Queen in a observation hive caught laying two eggs back to back.

10/06/2022

Always cool to see the different colors of pollen they are bringing in but it’s the first time I have seen lime green or pink

10/06/2022

Two queens together on the same frame.

12/23/2021

As we prepare to take a break for the holidays, we are excited about all the places we have seen, visited, and the wonderful people we have met. This is definitely a dream job and we cannot wait until 2022. We are excited to release our Best of 2021 based on the places we have visited! We hope you enjoy the read!

Backroads and Burgers Best of 2021

Best Culinary Trail: The Hattiesburger Trail (Visit Hattiesburg)
Best Vendor Market: The Lucky Rabbit (Hattiesburg, MS)
Best Gluten Free Pizza: Bricktown Brewery Fort Smith (Fort Smith Regional Chamber of Commerce)
Best Craft Brewery: Four Saints Brewing Company (Downtown Asheboro NC)
Best Unique Tourist Attraction: Ellinwood Tunnels (Ellinwood, Kansas
Best View: The Open Range, (Explore Great Bend, KS)
Best Wine: Queen's Reward Meadery, Tupelo, MS
Best Beachfront Hotel in Mississippi: South Beach Biloxi Hotel & Suites
Best Boutique Hotel: The Mason Boutique Hotel
Best Corporate Hotel Brand: Hotel Indigo from IHG (worldwide)
Best Distillery Tour: Jack Daniel's (Lynchburg, TN)
Best Waterfall Hikes: North Alabama (Mountain Lakes Chamber of Commerce, Visit North Alabama
Best Children’s Museum: Hands On! Discovery Center Visit Johnson City Northeast Tennessee
Best Family Experience Museum: Huntsville Space and Rocket Center (Huntsville-Madison County Convention & Visitors Bureau)
Best Cave Tour: Cathedral Caverns State Park-Alabama (Mountain Lakes Chamber of Commerce)
Best Unique Shopping Experience: Unclaimed Baggage (Scottsboro, AL, Mountain Lakes Chamber of Commerce)
Best Bed and Breakfast: Gorham's Bluff Alabama, (Pisgah, AL)
Best Smoky Mountain Accommodations: Smoky Mountain Villas(Newport, TN)
Best Food Competitions: Little Town Bar Hwy 48 (Magnolia, MS)
Best Nightlife: Visit Johnson City
Best Speakeasy: The Windsor Speakeasy (Visit Johnson City)
Best Hamburger: Sully's, (Hattiesburg, MS)
Most Interesting: Rogersville Main Street Program, Northeast Tennessee
Best Christmas Town: Experience Columbia MS
Best Unique Accommodation: Hale Springs Inn (Rogersville, TN)
Best Small Town Zoo: Great Bend-Brit Spaugh Zoo,
Most Scenic Bike Trail: Port City Trail, Gulf County Florida Tourism
Best Education Center: Kansas Wetlands Education Center, Great Bend, KS
Best Ice Cream Shop: ICE & VICE (Madison, MS)
Best Beef Farm: Honestly Beef (Collins, MS)
Best Farm Fresh Honey: Yazoo Honey & Bee Farm
Best Mexican Restaurant: El Rayo, (Hattiesburg, MS)
Best French Onion Soup: The Grease Rack (Newport, TN)
Best Cocktails: Brass Hat Midtown (Hattiesburg, MS)
Best Non-Profit: Extra Table
Best Fried Chicken: Old Country Store. Lorman MS (Lorman, MS)
Best Fried Dill Pickles: Pickle Barrel (Visit Chattanooga)
Best Roadside Diner: Squeegy's Bar and Grill, Clafin, KS
Best French Fries: Parmesan Fries at Label Restaurant: Handcrafted Food & Spirits Johnson City, TN

09/09/2021

Took a few pictures in a bee yard the other day the little bumblebee was just holding on to the flower taking a little power nap. She held on I know for more than 5 minutes after I saw her then she started back to work.

09/09/2021

Captured some nice pictures during a lightning storm from the honey house the other night. These pictures are all of the same lighting bolt.

09/03/2021

Yazoo Honey and Bee Farm owner Kip Isonhood of Tinsley has made a big impact in the beekeeping community. See full story in our Alumni Community (it requires activating your alumni account if you have not already):
https://holmesccalumni.360alumni.com/headlines-all/

11/15/2020

Somber as this post may be, I hope you can appreciate it for what it truly is. For all of her hard work and for me being her keeper, it’s important I honor her. I want to show my appreciation for a little life that left this earthly plain without anyone really taking notice.

I found her on an autumn-touched maple leaf, just as she is here, curled up and looking at peace. Bees, don’t live very long, when compared to human lives-maybe that’s a blessing. I considered for a moment, while admiring her as she was, that she is a winter bee, and the sky is often a luxury for a winter bee. Unlike her spring, summer and autumn sisters, her time spent reaching the sky is limited mostly to short cleansing flights and undertaking duties. During rare occasions she can go farther from home when winter temperatures are just right. Temperatures that allow her to fly just far enough to make it back in time before the sun sinks and the cold begins to bite. Where she’s able to gather from elusive winter pollen sources or enjoy fresh water.
Her last flight was done with a different purpose, or so I’d like to think. I want to believe she died doing what she loved, knowing her time was coming to an end and rather than leaving her failing body to her undertaking sisters, she chose to fly. She dared to touch the sky. See the horizon, see the world as it was, always beautiful no matter what season Mother Earth wears. She knew she would never see the earth in full bloom, buzzing flower to flower under the warm rays of a mid-summer sun. No, that wasn’t to be her fate, nor is it the fate of many winter bees who don’t make it through to early spring. Some of her winter born sister will be lucky enough to see early spring. They’ll be there in the beginning to help forage for early spring nectar and pollen to signal to their queen it’s time to begin laying the next generation.
To have wings and not be able to fly as much as one would like, must be a heartache for a creature born to fly. So, she flew, she kissed the sky to say goodbye. Soaking it all in, she followed the sun, knowing full well the bitter breath of winter would end her. This little bee wouldn’t be a burden for her undertaking sisters to carry away- she spared them the energy and effort- a martyr in her own way. All the while, she enjoyed her final flight kissing the sky and chasing the setting sun, answering the warm whisper of the universe inviting her home- or so I’d like to bee-lieve❤️🐝

11/12/2020

Queen bee laying a egg and the life cycle of the baby growing. Pretty cool