About PerfectBee
Our Mission
PerfectBee was founded in 2015 by Mark Williams (learn more about our origins here). Our mission is to provide guidance, educational resources and support for new and experienced beekeepers. This ranges from those who are interested in potentially taking up beekeeping as hobby, as well as existing beekeepers looking to enjoy and be successful with their bees.
What We Offer
PerfectBee offers a broad range of services and features. We offer a wide range of education resources (particularly our Academy Beekeeping Syllabus, as well as our free Introductory Beekeeping Course.
PerfectBee also has a vibrant community, PerfectBee Colony. Offered as a low-cost monthly or annual membership, Colony provides access to regular beekeeping webinars, the welcoming Colony Forum, annual membership offers discounts at the PerfectBee Beekeeping Store and – in which beekeepers can connect with and help one another. Here are some more details of what we offer.
Beekeeping Education
Our primary goal has always been to help beekeepers learn about beekeeping together. Mark said it best…
“The educational side of what we do is essential. There is an ever-growing curiosity about bees and beekeeping, not just among active beekeepers but in society as a whole. We want to take that curiosity and foster it in a productive way, for the good of bees and pollinators.
We educate people about the benefits, priorities, methodologies and philosophies of beekeeping. But, more than that, it is important that we help our visitors not merely read our information but also understand it and put it in context. With that, they can then make their own informed decisions.
Just telling people to install a hive and practice beekeeping without much thought is irresponsible. But an informed approach to backyard beekeeping positions beekeeping in a really positive light and sets the beekeeper up for success.”
Mark Williams, Founder
We feel strongly about the importance of comprehensive, balanced beekeeping education as essential to success of this sometimes complex hobby. Whether you’d like to read about interesting and relevant beekeeping topics in our blog posts, need advice and guidance from experienced beekeepers like our group of PerfectBee Ambassadors, or want to take an online course through the lessons in our PerfectBee Introductory Course and Academy Syllabus, we are here to help you become a more successful beekeeper, with happier and healthier bees.
A Beekeeping Community
After founding PerfectBee, Mark also recognized the need for any beekeeper to have access to support and insights from many beekeepers with differing perspectives. That’s why he created a community for beekeepers to come together and share thoughts, insights and experiences with other beekeepers, namely our Colony community. Through membership to our Colony community, members can connect with other members and more experienced beekeepers, gain access to even more beekeeping information with detailed lessons in our Academy syllabus, and so much more. Learn more about our Colony membership and all the benefits available here.
A Place to Find High-Quality Beekeeping Supplies
Though having access to a high-quality beekeeping education is very important, you can’t be a beekeeper without having a reliable source of beehive supplies and equipment, to house and care for honeybees. That’s why we make sure to not just teach you about the supplies and equipment used in beekeeping, we offer it for sale in the PerfectBee Store, shipped right to you!
We also recognize the importance of offering superior products, backed up by awesome customer service. Beehives are outside and subjected to the elements 100% of the time and as such, must stand up to the tests of both time and weather.
We partner with a well-established manufacturer and distributor of beekeeping, in business for over 30 years on the east coast of the United States. We offer high-quality woodenware products crafted here in the U.S., with locally-sourced Eastern White Pine. Our hives are proven to last with the elements in mind.
When you’re purchasing hives through PerfectBee, you can have faith that your equipment will hold up.
For the Beekeeper
Since all of what we do aims to provide beekeepers with the education, support, and supplies they need, we want to take a moment to recognize that we wouldn’t be here without YOU!
Our beekeeping customers, members, and readers are the reason that we’re able to do what we love. Through PerfectBee, we love being able to teach, share, and learn more about honeybees and beekeeping with and from all of you. We appreciate our long-time and new visitors and members alike and are so very glad that you’re here with us.
To those that are finding us for the first time, welcome! Please send us a message here with any questions you have about us, our resources, or our products.