About Us

We are Natural Beekeepers and do not treat our bees with harsh or soft chemicals. We are a no-treatment apiary. Located in the Appalachian Mountains of northwest North Carolina, we have beehives in 2 different locations within a 6 mile area at about 2700 to 3200 feet. We have no industry in our small community, but we do have organic gardeners and farmers. We also prefer small cell bees over the large cell bees. It is our intentions to raise resistant stock bees by maintaining their health through natural, no-treatment methods and Integrative Management Producedures (IPM). We feed the bees' honey and pollen back to them if they did not have time to make their own stores before winter or if the dearth was particular long and bad. A dearth can takes place twice a year - June and August. August dearth can last a month. As a last resort we do feed sugar/water with honey. We harvest through the Spring and Summer, but we also harvest our honey at the end of October, or after the flowers die, ensuring our getting the allergens from the Fall flowers. Ingesting honey harvested within 50 miles of your area in which you reside helps build up your immune system against allergies. We sell selective honey when available, but always try to have on hand our Annual Honey which includes all the extractions taken during the entire year. This is sold towards the end of the year. But please understand, our bees get the honey first if it is a particularly bad year for nectar.

Apiary #1 is located at 3200'. We have a view of Max Patch to the far left of our front porch during the winter time. As you can see in the photo we have doubled our hives this year. We still have the wild swarm in the log leaning against the tree on the left. We have not taken a picture since May for other hives in this lot. We have an additional wild swarm, at least 5 years old, found in a house. As you will see in the pictures of all hives belonging to Lady, her girls are tolerant of her creative endeavors.

Apiary 2 - Davis Cove Farm Davis Cove Farms is located about 2700'. Layten and Veda Davis raise cattle, hay, and organic blackberries and blueberries, and other fruit trees.There is a large organic vegetable garden planted and grown by another family. We May keep this apiary at 8 hives only.

About the Lady Lady Spirit Moon, NC, MH, Certified Beekeeper, and Ambassador for the Center for Honeybee Research Lady owns and operates BEe Healing Apiary in Spring Community of Hot Springs, NC with 24 hives on 2 apiary sites. Raising resistant stock bees, she is a 4-year Natural Beekeeper who doesn't lose bees to diseases or pests, unless you count her as a pest during her first years of learning. She teaches Natural Beekeeping whenever possible and has gatherings for her students at her main apiary in spring and early summer. Her passion for bees led her to design, wholesale, and retail her own cosmetics out of products from the hive, herbal tinctures, and healing oils. Lady received her herbology certification in 1984 and did clinical while owning Northern Michigan's (Lower Peninsula) largest herb farm and lecturing throughout Michigan. She taught 63 workshops from May to October teaching everything herbal, including making living wreaths while walking in the woods.  She received her Nutrition Consultant Certification in 2010 and her Master Herbalist in 2011 from Global College of Natural Medicine. Her final goal is Holistic Health Practitioner. This college was chosen for its international instructors and very active forum. Her passion for Natural Beekeeping led her to design, wholesale and retail her own cosmetics out of products from the hive, herbal tinctures, and healing oils. Lady is also studying Apitherapy from Dr. Stephan Stangaciu, MD, Certified Acupuncturist, Certified Phytotherapist, and Certified Apitherapist. Dr. Stangaciu lectures and teaches year round and around the world. His course includes Apilarnil, a part of Apitherapy not usually taught in the USA. "He's a very demanding and hard instructor."  In the fall of 2010, Lady was appointed Ambassador for the Center for Honeybee Research, Asheville, NC. In October of the same year she went to Italy as a Slow Food Delegate. While there she met with professionals and beekeepers of the honeybee world. In 2011 she will travel back to Europe for a 17-day, 3-city tour to meet with beekeepers, professionals, and those who have created Italy's largest Beekeeping Cooperative. The final 6 days of her trip will be in France with Dr.John Kefuss, Entomologist. John is known world-wide for raising resistant stock queens and and teaches students from around the world.  BEe Healing Org. also sponsors a beekeeping project in Senegal, Africa and educates by email and SKYPE. In her spare time, author and writer, Lady works on her books relating her philosophy from the beeyard, Propolis - The Miracle Wonder, and the Rhythm of the Earth with the Honeybee.