Founders and brothers Scott & Steve Taylor have been keeping honey bees in the Springfield and Columbus Ohio areas since 2018.  Their passion for these pollinators runs deep as you will be able to tell from the very first conversation.  They come from a multi-generational line of hobbyist beekeepers.  The following account is from their grandmother speaking about her father, Scott and Steve's great grandfather.

"My dad raised bees for the honey, which took the place of sugar in a lot of things. He had two rows of small apple trees about 15 foot apart with raspberry bushes mixed in with them and strawberry rows along the outside. Then he placed the beehives along in the center. That way the bees got the nectar from the blossoms. And a bee often stung us, when we would try to sneak a berry or an apple. Bee stings were very common in the country. Sometimes one of us might have a swollen foot or ankle when it was time for school to start. Then we had to just wear a sock or go barefoot. We often went to school barefoot early in the fall. Boxes were placed in the hives and the bees made wax combs and deposited the honey in the boxes. The when the box was full my dad would open the hive and collect the boxes. He would put the boxes into a large pan and place it on the back of the coal cook stove, where it wasn't very hot. It would take several days for the honey to run out of the wax and then it would form a thick coating of the wax over the top of the pan. We loved to stick a finger into it and get it coated with the wax and honey. Once it was all out of the comb the top wax was dipped off and the honey was ready for use. We used it on pancakes and bread. And it was great to make crackerjack with popcorn." - Mildred Taylor