Bork Honey Business
Now I'm sure you have all had honey before, but have you ever had honey not Bought in stores. Stacey Bork says honey from his bees are way better than any honey you can find in the store and all his customers agree. This small town honey business was started in the spring of 1998 and it was started by one man himself, Stacey Bork. Stacey says he started this business because when he was a boy, a man near there acreage put bees on their pasture and for rent this man gave them honey. Since that day Stacey has become more and more interested in this business and then created his own. It was not easy in the beginning as the Bork business struggled to find buyers and they only had 2 hives to begin with. They started putting it in small shops like the Hills Meat Locker and the barber shop in Valley Springs. It just took a couple people to buy it and soon their business took off. Now he has sixteen hives and they are located in many places. Some are in Valley, some are right outside of Valley and the others are outside of Beaver Creek in Minnesota
Every summer they spend many of there days collecting, spinning, and bottling honey. The bees keep thier honey in combs attached to wooden frames. After this, the bee keeper collects the frames that are full of honey and replace the boxes with empty ones. Next the bee keeper brings the frames home and spins all the honey in either a hand or electric spinner. Then it drips down into a 5-10 gallon bucket. Onced it is placed in these buckets it can either then be stored or poured into a bottle and get prepared to sell.
Which is the next step, each of these buckets have a valve on the bottom of them. First they heat up the honey in these buckets and then pour it into bottles. They heat up the honey so it pours better because when honey is cold it is really thick. After it is in these bottles they are capped and labeled. Once they are capped and labeled they are ready to sell. They bring these bottles to many stores and meat lockers like the one in Hills. Stacey's favorite part of this bee business is and he said, " The honey.'' Which is no shock there.
This business has been going for more then 19 years and Stacey and his family still enjoy this business. He says it is a great hobby and encourages people to start a business of their own. He says a business like his bee business teaches responsibility especially for young kids and thats why he encourages people to start their own business.
Every summer they spend many of there days collecting, spinning, and bottling honey. The bees keep thier honey in combs attached to wooden frames. After this, the bee keeper collects the frames that are full of honey and replace the boxes with empty ones. Next the bee keeper brings the frames home and spins all the honey in either a hand or electric spinner. Then it drips down into a 5-10 gallon bucket. Onced it is placed in these buckets it can either then be stored or poured into a bottle and get prepared to sell.
Which is the next step, each of these buckets have a valve on the bottom of them. First they heat up the honey in these buckets and then pour it into bottles. They heat up the honey so it pours better because when honey is cold it is really thick. After it is in these bottles they are capped and labeled. Once they are capped and labeled they are ready to sell. They bring these bottles to many stores and meat lockers like the one in Hills. Stacey's favorite part of this bee business is and he said, " The honey.'' Which is no shock there.
This business has been going for more then 19 years and Stacey and his family still enjoy this business. He says it is a great hobby and encourages people to start a business of their own. He says a business like his bee business teaches responsibility especially for young kids and thats why he encourages people to start their own business.