The Beez Kneez

Specialties

Local, Raw Honey delivered by bicycle

Establishing and maintaining urban and rural hives

Pedal-​powered extraction services for beekeepers

Camp Beez Kneez-​a 14 week intensive beekeeping class

Events-​the annual dandelion honey pastry chef challenge

Advocacy through Healthy Bees Healthy lives including a pollinator flower planting kit called the Pollinator Patch Kit

Meet the Business Owner

Kristy A.

Business Owner

Kristy, born and raised in a small town in central Minnesota, watched the landscape change from farmland and wide-​open spaces to cookie cutter development. Feeling restless, disgruntled and sheltered, she was thirsty for knowledge and experience. After spending many years traveling, studying, volunteering and working all over the world, she found herself in central Arkansas where the nostalgia of wide open spaces and farmland solidified an untapped passion. After graduating from the University of MN with a degree in Global Studies, she spent a year at Heifer International’s Ranch working as an experiential educator, livestock caretaker, and vegetable grower while living among a small community of farmers. It was there that her agrarian roots were awoken and intertwined with issues of social injustice. From Arkansas, Kristy jumped on an opportunity to work in the mountains of Ecuador for a year managing Finca Urkuwayku, an organic production and demonstration farm that also focused on a