Who We Are

Rita found beekeeping in 2021 during what she likes to call her “quarter life crisis”. With not enough college degrees and way too much depression, she felt stuck on the endless merry-go-round of service industry jobs while desperately searching for meaning and coming up empty handed. She began with 2 hives in her backyard and after a season landed a gig in Seattle that allowed her to make beekeeping her full time job. Since then she has been dreaming of bigger and better ways to help people discover the magic of honey bees on their own. Beekeeping is much more than handling insects to her — she believes the true value is not in what we can extract, but in the depth of wisdom that they offer if we’re willing to listen. Rita is currently exploring the capacity of honey bees to aid in mental health work and hopes to offer therapeutic courses down the road.