An evening with Bob Binnie-MBA

A casual conversation with Bob Binnie at the February 23rd meeting of the Brandon Area Beekeepers' Association.

Bob began his career more than thirty years ago working with a Oregon commercial honey producer. For three years, he worked 24/7 following the pollination season from California’s San Joaquin Valley, to Southern Oregon, on to Washington and ending the season in North Dakota, traveling more than 65,000 miles each year. Working all day with the bees and moving them at night; for $80 a day. But his learning curve was steep both in what to do to be successful and as importantly (or maybe more so) what not to do to be a successful commercial beekeeper. In 1991, he moved to Georgia and started his own operation. In 2016, Blue Ridge Honey produced more than 1.2 million pounds of raw honey which they sell in more than 300 retail shops, grocers, their own store in Lakemont, Georgia and online.