Benefits of beekeeping in the TX Panhandle

CANYON, Texas — It's allergy season here in the Texas Panhandle.

One Canyon business, along with millions of flying critters, are working to help you fix those allergy problems.

“Getting in a beehive is like just being close to God,” said Paige Nester, who owns Creek House Honey Farm. “You see this other world and all these things going on and happening in the hive.”

Paige and her husband, George, have been beekeeping for a decade.

“It’s not hard to be a beekeeper, A lot of people are scared of it because they get stung,” laughed Paige.

She says folks shouldn't worry.

“If you see a honeybee out and about, she's foraging, she’s working, she’s doing a job. She's there to get something for her colony to better them and she's not worried about you,” she said.

Nester tells ABC 7 Amarillo that without bees, one-third of the world's crops would die.

“We would lose almonds, coffee, cherries, apples, pumpkins, watermelons, and not to forget the livestock it would affect because of alfalfa hay,” said Nester.

There are about 65 beehives at the Creek House Apiary. Each hive holds 60,000 bees. That adds up to about four million bees. They travel for miles picking up local pollen and in turn could help folks with allergies.

“They go out and collect pollen off of flowers and nectar and they turn that into honey, so if you eat local honey, it's going to have local pollens in it,” said Nester.

The Creek House Honey Farm also hosts beekeeping classes and beehive tours.

They can also help with onsite beehive inspections and removals.

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