Please join us this coming Tuesday, June 17th at the Community Services Building (106 E. Morgan St. Brevard, NC) to hear our guest speaker Carla Robertson. She has a lot of information to share. 6:30 pm to mingle and talk to other club members, with the official meeting starting at 7 pm.
Carla Robertson is a second-generation commercial beekeeper based in Hoopers Creek, NC, where she plays a key role in her family’s business, Hoopers Creek Bee Company. Introduced to beekeeping at a very young age, Carla has developed a deep knowledge of what it takes to sustain a successful beekeeping operation in today’s challenging landscape.
Though based in North Carolina, Carla and her family are also migratory beekeepers, taking their bees to Florida each season to produce nucleus colonies, queens, and packages. In addition to their beekeeping work, Hoopers Creek Bee Company carries a full line of Amish-made beekeeping supplies, supporting both new and experienced beekeepers across the region.
Carla also helps run the Certified Honey Producer Program in North Carolina, which promotes transparency and quality in local honey production. She is the founder of the Save American Honey movement, a national effort to educate consumers on the importance of buying honey directly from U.S. beekeepers. Through open conversations with fellow beekeepers, Carla is shining a light on the growing threat of imported and falsified honey in the market and working to get real U.S. honey back into homes across the country.
