Monday - Friday
8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Closed on
Saturday
and
Sundays
Bee
Healthy Honey Shop is a family owned business which started over two
generations ago. We have over 100 years of experience in
learning all there is to know about bees and natural honey preparation
process. We also have over
15 years of beekeeping experience with pure raw local honey and other products that
are truly extraordinary!
Beyond the consumer's expectation for the natural character of pure
raw local honey,
Be Healthy Honey Shop pure raw local varietal honeys have been chosen for their
unique pure raw local honey flavor.
Live Bee And Hive Removal
Be
Healthy Honey Shop specializes in live bee hive extractions,
relocation to bee farms, and swarm removals.
We are the only company in northern
California who relocate our bees while others only claim to. We
offer free estimates. All bees removed are unharmed and relocated to bee farms where
they can continue to thrive and benefit our environment. Nearly all
of our customers report significant savings with Be Healthy Honey Shop
over our competitor's quotes. Our company is dedicated to 100%
customer satisfaction and protecting the wonderful honey bee.
Please do not
attempt to remove bees or bee hives without giving us a call
(510) 388-9112..
We service Northern California for Bee Control.
Please give us
a call (510) 388-9112.
How sweet it is
The economics of beekeeping in Oakland
Khaled Almaghafi's red pickup truck,
parked along Telegraph Avenue, was attracting bees. Where they came
from was unclear -- nearby there was only the California Highway
Patrol offices, a funeral home and the concrete monolith of highway
980, none of which were harboring bees. Yet the insects had arrived,
possibly attracted to the tall, slender Almaghafi himself. He is,
after all, a honey man and a beekeeper.
Waving the bees away, I helped unpack a few farmer's market tables,
bottles of honey and jars of pollen from the truck. We carried
everything into Almaghafi's tiny honey shop near the corner of 36th
Street and Telegraph in Oakland. I had come to meet with Almaghafi
because he is one of the few city dwellers I know whose main source of
income comes from working with bees. I wanted to know what it was like
to depend on insects for one's livelihood.
The open door at Bee Healthy Honey (which doesn't keep regular
business hours and is often closed because Almaghafi is mostly out in
the field) wasn't just attracting bees: people started to appear as if
they had been waiting months to get inside. A man on a motorcycle
swerved over and parked directly in front of the shop. He wore vintage
clothes and round spectacles.
"You got the local honey, right?" he asked as he sauntered in, looking
a little dusty from the road. He said his allergies were killing him
-- and he believes, as does Almaghafi, that eating raw honey made from
the nectar of the flowers that cause his allergies will build up
immunity to the allergen……
"You know, it is our duty as beekeepers to do [this work]," Almaghafi
said while sipping his coffee, whose berries had no doubt been
pollinated by bees. "You feel good providing that service. To continue
the cycle, to feel connected to the land."
Once I asked a vegan friend of mine if he ate honey. His response,
and I will never forget it was, "Honey is a bees way of paying
rent." So true, so true.
Regardless of how you feel about that, honey is a great
anti-inflammatory and helps with allergies. I try to make it a point
to eat locally produced honey whenever I can (both to help me with
my allergies and because it tastes so good).
If it wasn't for this store, I probably would have never realized
honey could have so many different flavors to it. It's like hearing
about how farmers in Europe feed their animals certain
grasses/plants so that it'll have an influences on the cheese that
is produced from them. The same goes for bees. You can taste the
flower that was originally used to make the honey. Who knew?
Anyway, the store is always a pleasure to visit. Once, the owner
showed my friends and I a queen bee he had captured earlier in the
day. Last week he showed me a hive that he cleared out and even gave
me a small tube of honey from Tibet.
Amazing, local, family owned and all the bees are local so it's
great for allergies.
It's a tiny shop so it's kind of easy to miss. Also, there isn't a
ton of staff, so if the owners are out at farmers markets or
collecting swarms (from people who call them as no-kill be
exterminators) the store is closed. It's a little hit or miss
sometimes. If you're a regular you can just call and ask when
they'll be in.
Bee Healthy Honey is the perfect shop for bee and honey enthusiasts,
Oshun priestesses and initiates and the generally curious. The
perimeter of the shop has been designed to resemble a honeycomb.
It's all so very surreal. Local and imported honey can be found
here, in addition to beeswax and/or honey beauty products, nuts,
teas, etc. Many of the cute bee or honey theme decorations found
within the honeycomb are NOT for sale. I learned that the hard way.
I first met this family when The City of Piedmont
recommended them for removing hives from my home. After a speedy
removal they presented me with a jar of specialty honey from the
Indian Himalayas. After drizzling this liquid gold on some cheese
from The Cheese Shop in Oakland and spreading the concoction on
fresh bread...I was hooked! The shop is amazing, they have honey and
honey products from their own hives and all over the world. The
family has been making honey for generations in Yemen and they know
their stuff. They also carry soaps, creams Royal Jelly, Bee Pollen.
If you like gourmet foods or are interested in the benefits of honey
for beauty or health you must check out this store!
The owner and beekeeper Khaled is a very nice
friendly man who loves talking about honey. He keeps beehives all over
the bay area, so he's certain to have a stock of local, natural
healthy honey for every purpose. Their products are fresh and clean.
They have a hand cream called Queen of Sheba which is bees wax and
olive oil with a mild scent of the Middle east. They carry Blackberry,
Raspberry, Wild flower and Sage honey. The sage knocked my socks off!
Bee
Healthy Honey Shop is a family owned business which started over two
generations ago. We have over 100 years of experience in
learning all there is to know about bees and natural honey preparation
process. We also have over
15 years of beekeeping experience with pure raw local honey and other products that
are truly extraordinary!