Purple Cow Bee Farm

12/30/2021

We want all of our customers to know that because of Tom's declining health, we had to sell our beehives. We still have a small supply of honey and it is for sale at Wade's Quality Meat Market in Shelbyville. We want to thank everyone that bought our honey and supported us over the last ten years. Beekeeping was Tom's passion and he will miss it very much. We wish our friends a healthy and blessed 2022. All of you mean the world to us.

12/24/2020

We wish all of our friends and family a very merry Christmas and a blessed and healthy New Year. Thank you to everyone who has supported our little bee farm, and we hope our honey has brought a little more sweetness into your lives.
~Tom & Nancy Brachbill

04/10/2020

We will be delivering more of our raw local honey to Wades Meat Market on Friday (April 10). They are very proactive in assuring each customer can shop safely allowing a limited number of people inside at a time. Make sure to call ahead (217-774-1006) to order your meat products, and they can help you pick up any honey you might need. Thank you to all of our customers who have asked for our honey. We send our best wishes to everyone for a safe Easter holiday.

03/18/2020

The girls were out gathering pollen from the blossoms of the maple trees.
It feels like spring. 🌼

09/17/2019

We have honey for sale!
Message us for price and delivery information.

07/24/2019

The forager bees are collecting nectar from the sunflowers.

05/25/2019

Four to five pounds of very calm bees. This is the biggest swarm we've ever captured.

05/25/2019

This is the biggest swarm that we have collected. It's about 4-5 pounds of bees.

05/10/2019

Tell them quietly, and they will listen... 🐝

The bee friend, a painting by Hans Thoma (1839–1924) There was a time when almost every rural British family who kept bees followed a stra...

08/13/2018

Thank you to all who stopped to buy our honey at the Shelbyville Farmers Market. We have sold out for this season, but will return next year. We still have honey available at Wade's in Shelbyville.

Fresh Meat Case, Deli, Meat Bundles, Hot Deli