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Wild Honey Box’s products include creamy honey, beeswax products and hot honey.
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Wild Honey Box’s owners have 7,000 hives of bees in north Houston and south Texas.
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Wild Honey Box expands with new storefront
per hive, Wendy Reed said. Wild Honey Box, a business that started by selling its products to retailers 30 years ago, is now operated by Reed’s daughter, Kayla Simons, a former public educator, and her husband, Dax Simons. Under their ownership, the business expanded with a brick-and-mortar in March. Staying local The business’s bees are kept on several land- owners’ properties across the Montgomery, Tomball and Waller area as well as in south Texas. Wild Honey Box’s products include creamy honey, beeswax products and hot honey. The shop also o ers free soft serve ice cream sweetened with honey and a honey tasting bar.
Wild Honey Box started with one hive and a passion for bees born from Kenny Reed’s desire to change his lifestyle after a health scare in 1994. “It was then ... he said ... [beekeeping] was what he was put on the earth to do,” Wendy Reed said. How it happened Over 30 years ago, while planting fruit trees, Montgomery residents Kenny and Wendy Reed noticed a need for honey bees for pollination, leading them to purchase a hive of bees. Inspired by the bees, Kenny Reed left his courier position at Federal Express to work for a commer- cial beekeeping family while learning to maintain his own beehive. Today, Kenny and Wendy Reed have 7,000 hives with an average of 50,000 bees
Wild Honey Box expanded with a storefront in March.
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