The bees of Ebert Honey are California bound!  We look forward to the 2026 almond pollination season, and we hope the bees love the warmer climate of the Central Valley's winter and early spring!

For the first time, Ebert Honey is offering pallets of beeswax with LTL shipping included in the purchase price!  This post describes the wax options and a few shipping-related details.  Custom orders of all quantities remain welcome at 319 259 9377 and via our online contact form!

Ebert Honey recently participated at the 75th annual Midwest Old Threshers Reunion over the Labor Day weekend!  Enjoy the latest tales and pictures from an Ebert tradition that has been underway for nearly a quarter century!

Ebert Honey describes how marketing pure beeswax became a significant part of their family business.  They provide 100% pure beeswax in quantities ranging from ounces to thousands of pounds to an extremely diverse array of buyers!

Ebert Honey discusses their first Texas spring, creating new hives for 2025 and learning nature's rhythms in a new environment for the first time in years!  Read on to share the adventure!

Ebert Honey describes their reasons of wintering bees in East Texas for the first time 2024-25!  The bee life adventures continue! 

We are four years into refining our ecommerce presence at Ebert Honey. For many years, Alex deve...

It is a pretty fall this year. Lots of cool nights with little frost have allowed the leaves to ...

We are wrapping up the very last phases of the honey harvest and turning our focus to building h...

The fall bloom is setting up pretty much as I expected in eastern Iowa. We had recurrent rain t...

We are moving into the last two days of the annual Midwest Old Threshers Reunion! Our Sammy is ...

The honey harvest is filling up our barrels, and we are happy to report that 2022 went better th...

The truckloads of bees have been rolling back into Iowa. Last December, Andrew cried when he th...

Great news, we finally have a full inventory of our honey containers available. Deliveries pick...

We once again split the almond pollination hives in California in 2022. The image above shows t...

Three frosts hit the almond growers this week. Hard freezes aren't all that common in almond la...

We just finished checking the bees during almond bloom 2022. Normally we make this round just p...

Acquiring inventory of honey containers was a challenge in 2021. Like many other segments of th...

We returned to California several days ago to start preparing the bees for 2022 almond pollinati...

The Ebert Honey bee migration to California is winding up for 2021. We loaded the last truck a ...

Early October beekeeping hasn't felt too much different from September beekeeping this year. Th...

Here is Andrew riding high on a 1935 Model B John Deere at the Midwest Old Threshers Reunion tha...

Here we are sitting at the first Cedar Rapids Farmers Market back in June. I didn't really plan...

We are pushing surplus boxes out of the building as fast as we can manage in hopes of catching t...

Early June has brought on a strong clover bloom and plenty of heat to let the bees have plenty o...

We are in the midst of hive creation 2021. We didn't shake packages in 2021 because we knew tha...

We spent a record amount of time with the bees in California in 2021. I think it was worth it. ...

The almond bloom is well underway here in northern California. Some orchards are in full bloom,...

We are winding up our survey of the Ebert bees out in northern California. The image above show...

Honey container and lid acquisition was one of the great challenges of 2020. During the spring ...

It is only our third year of loading bee trucks. Somehow it feels much longer. Participating i...

This has proven quite a year thus far. Looking back on March 2020 and our uncertainty about get...

The Lynnville side of the operation started extracting a few days ago. The image above is the t...

We always wonder if there will be a surplus honey crop. Average yields fluctuate annually, the ...

June is almost always a time of great hope for an impressive honey flow in Iowa. As the image a...

One of the virus-related disruptions of 2020 is that I no longer sit at a coffee shop on Sunday ...