Foxhound Bee Company

About Foxhound Bee Company and How We Started The People Behind Foxhound Bee Company What started as one hive in 2012 for the owner, Adam Hickman, has developed into a full-service beekeeping supply company based in Birmingham, Alabama. Just like our bees, we are small (though we like to punch above our weight), and we love their hardworking, never-say-never, keep-your-nose-to-the-flower passion. Despite being a certified Master Beekeeper, Adam has made plenty of beekeeping mistakes. The type of mistakes that make your heart sink, like when he left the door to the honey extracting room open after a full day of extracting honey... No big deal, right? Well, it's not until over 100,000 honeybees find the open door, tell their friends, and try to take all their honey back. What a catastrophe. We want to connect you with the world of bees (hopefully without all the mistakes Adam made) through beekeeping supplies, honey, protective gear, and beekeeping classes. Our team is small, and we are on your side and want to do everything we can to help you. We remember what it was like getting started, so we will always support you and encourage you on your beekeeping journey, regardless of the type of hive or style you want to use. Taking care of bees has been our thing since 2012, but it was 2014 when Foxhound Bee Company was established. With only $200, we started the business as a side hustle to our other side hustle as a way for Adam and his wife Stephanie to pay off student loans. Fast forward to 2020, a do and a couple kids later, Adam has left a career developing recipes for our nations largest food brands to run Foxhound Bee Company and serve beekeepers full-time. We look back at pictures like this to remind us of all we can be grateful for. It wasn't that long ago that we were scared and doubted ourselves and our future. 2014 wasn't that long ago when Adam was driving to beekeeping conferences, hoping for good weather and standing in the parking lot trying to sell bee supplies out the back of his truck. To this day, customers still come up and "reminisce" about how we used to be outside and congratulate us on moving inside with all the other vendors. Honestly, we are teachers first, beekeepers second and business owners third. Our business has grown out of the need to fill that gap between good teaching and good beekeeping. We specialize in selling cypress beekeeping supplies, but we often spend more of our time giving general advice to beekeepers and answering their questions. Answering emails and text messages about beekeeping is a daily occurrence, but most beekeepers come to us for our beekeeping supplies. We sell our supplies through our website and ship all over the country. We have shipped our supplies to every single state except two, South and North Dakota. Really? What's with the Dakotas? If you know a beekeeper there, send them our way for a deal. We have also hitched our wagon to Jeff Bezos, well, actually his company. Not the space rocket one, but 2-day shipping bahemoth. Many of our supplies can be found on Amazon, so if that is your thing, be sure to check our store there too. You might find a few things on there that we don't sell on our website. Why We Are In Business The equipment we sell is very high quality and will work very well for you and your bees. Our beekeeping supplies are made from Cypress wood which is the gold standard for beehives because of its long lasting rot resistant quality. Besides selling equipment, we have worked hard to source high quality tools, beekeeping suits, feeders and much of the other equipment to help you take care of bees. Besides selling beekeeping supplies, we also believe in teaching good beekeeping and educating the public about how great honey bees are. Our owner is a EAS Certified Master Beekeeper and thus education is central to Foxhound Bee Company. We really enjoy teaching and find ourselves sharing our knowledge about bees and beekeeping whenever we can. Yo