Our Mission

Building bee-friendly habitats and inspiring action to protect pollinators and keep our planet buzzing.

How Our Mission is Fulfilled

At beeple, we are dedicated to nurturing the natural life cycle of bees through sustainable, non-intrusive hive design. Over the past decade we have worked to support bees in their most instinctive and unmanipulated state.

Our hives are crafted from locally sourced, high-quality Douglas Fir wood and built to echo the bees’ natural habitat. With a circular, open structure, the hive allows bees to construct combs freely, just as they would in the wild with out interference.

Each hive feature double walls with 2 inches of insulation between, providing year round protection and comfort. Measuring 18 inches in diameter and 30 inches tall, the design offers ample space while maintaining optimal internal conditions for healthy, resilient colonies.

Honey is not harvested from the hive. Instead, we place the well-being at the heart of everything we do, promoting thriving colonies and contributing to broader goals of biodiversity and ecological balance.

Why does this matter? Because bees are essential to life on Earth. They are responsible for pollinating over one-third of the food we eat and play a critical role in supporting ecosystems that sustain wildlife and plant diversity. In recent years, bee populations have declined at an alarming rates due to habitat loss, pesticides, disease, and climate change. By providing hives that prioritize the health, autonomy, and resilience of bees, we’re working to reverse this trend and protect one of nature’s most vital species.

At beeple, we believe that helping bees thrive helps the planet thrive-and that’s a mission worth buzzing about.

Founder

Barry has been interacting with honey bees for 12+ years. He began by taking classes led by Jacqueline Freeman, and became hooked immediately. After a few years of working with Warre and Top Bar Hives and discussions with Jacqueline and Susan Knilans it was realized a better hive for honey bees needed to be created. So Barry went to his woodworking studio and got to work—creating lots of saw dust, lots of partial hives, and finally created a working prototype. After several years of observing how honey bees liked the hive, making adjustments, and gathering input from the bees and others with prototypes, it was finally time to release the Habitat Hive to all.

Beeple Art and Support

Gail is a graphic artist and designer who resides in the Arizona Sonoran desert where bees need all the help they can get. She enthusiastically took up the cause of bees and pollinators at the encouragement of Barry. During a design conference, she and her son Mike coined the term '“beeple” to describe humans who want to support all things good for bees. She strives to include bee-friendly plants in her garden and educates everyone who will listen about bees and what they need to help us all live and thrive on this planet.

Mike is a talented web designer and supports the “beeple” cause, giving technical support, and advocates for all things bees and honey. He is an enthusiastic mead critic and consumer.

Mary Helen is the plant guru, bee communicator, and swarm collector.