2 Bee Or Not 2 Bee podcasters visit the HC Beekeepers Association

Rebecca Vaughan and her broadcast partner, Michelle Boerst, are two beekeepers from Texas who share their thoughts and experiences on their 2 Bee or Not 2 Bee podcast. They recently visited the Henderson County Beekeeper’s Association.

Vaughan started raising bees in 2015 and now runs about 300 hives. She also owns a company called East Side Honey that sells raw honey and her award-winning creamed honey.

“I’m from the city – when my daughter went to college we sold everything in the city and bought land in what we considered the county, in Wills Point,” Vaughan said. “We bought some acreage and I needed a hobby and it’s worked out great!”

She and Boerst have been doing the podcast for three years now, and the pair try and post twice-a-month.

“Michelle and I are both beekeepers and we are both in the Master Beekeepers program that’s run through the State of Texas – that’s how I met her,” she said. “But she’s up by Denton, so we’re not in the same region, so we do beekeeping differently and that’s what I like about it because you’re going to get two different approaches and opinions about beekeeping.”

“How you run your bees depends upon what kind of bees you have and what you’re wanting to do with them,” Vaughan said. “I have certain yards that I want to produce honey with and I use certain queens to make that happen. Beekeeping will be different for Michelle because in her area it gets colder faster than where I am, and also because the rainfall is different because we’re so far away from each other.”

Vaughan’s honey business, consists of a honey shop where she sells honey and also makes creamed honey.

“Creamed honey is my my specialty and I’ve invested in a commercial kitchen on my property where I make and produce the honey and creamed honey,” she said. “I do a lot of products: raw honey, creamed honey, flavored cream honey, and I also sell other people’s honey – varietal honeys that are made from 70 percent or more from the nectar of a certain flower.”

For more on East Side Honey, please see the following website: eastsidehoney.com.

For more information on the 2 Bee or Not 2 Bee podcast, please see their website at:

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2-bee-or-not-2-bee/id1628129428, or their Facebook page at: facebook.com/tobeepodcast/.