From the bees to you

Beiler Bees, since 2014

Beiler Bees is a small honey operation out of Spring Mills, Pennsylvania, run by Levi Beiler on his family’s land along Penns Valley Road. Four hive locations. One extraction room. Everything bottled by hand and sold raw, local, and unheated — the same way it’s been done here since Levi was a teenager catching swarms on his dad’s organic farm across the road.

Raw, Local, Honey. Four hive locations. One Penns Valley farm. Ten years learning from the bees.

He was 12. Penn State called.

When Levi was 12, a Penn State researcher knocked on his parents’ door looking for a certified organic farm to run a study on honeybee mite treatment. His dad had 130 acres across the road — grass-fed, no chemicals, certified organic. They said yes. Levi volunteered to help.

Every other Saturday, the research team would show up. Three years turned into four. By the end, Levi had enough hands-on experience to want his own hives. His first bees came from swarms he caught himself. He’s never bought bees since — just splits his existing hives each spring, the same way he learned.

I started selling honey when I turned 14. Before that, it was just kind of my own — three hives, enough for the family. Just getting started.
Levi Beiler, Beiler Bees

One road over. Three generations.

The Beiler family has been farming this stretch of Centre County since 1979, when Levi’s grandfather, Chris Sr., moved from Lancaster County in search of less crowded land. There was no Amish community here then. He found a farm and stayed.

Levi’s father, Chris Jr., was born on that farm and still runs it today — 130 acres, grass-fed dairy, selling milk through Organic Valley. When Levi got married and moved up the road this past January, he brought the bees with him. The hives that spent years at his parents’ place are now home at 3484 Penns Valley Rd, right across from where it all started.

From hive to jar, nothing added

Everything comes back to one place. Levi extracts, bottles, and sells from the farm here on Penns Valley Road — raw, unheated, and as close to the hive as it gets.

Don’t put it in the refrigerator. Room temperature or warmer keeps it fluid longest. And if yours crystallizes, a jar of warm water brings it back. Stored properly and sealed, raw honey keeps essentially forever — archaeologists have found sealed honey pots thousands of years old, still good.

Four locations in the valley

Levi keeps hives at the Spring Mills farm, his parents’ place across the road, out behind the property here, and at Penn’s Cave. Supply from all four locations returns to one place — where it is extracted, bottled, and sold as a single batch of Penns Valley honey.

Organic mite management

Levi’s goal has always been organic-approved treatments only — no hard chemicals on the hives. The same approach his father used across the road, and the same standard to which every jar of Beiler Bees honey is held.

Raw and never overheated

Raw honey crystallizes. That’s not a problem — it’s just what happens. Levi uses a water-jacketed tank to slowly bring it back to liquid, keeping the temperature below the point at which pasteurization begins. It stays raw from the hive to the jar.

On shelves across the valley

Beiler Bees honey is on shelves at Penn’s Cave & Wildlife Park, Mammy’s Donut Shop, The Country Kitchen & Dutch Valley Bakery, and Centre Market near Pine Grove Mills. It’s also available direct from the farm stand here on Penns Valley Road — the closest you can get to the source.

More and more people are using raw honey as their everyday sweetener — for baking, bread, all of it. Bulk buyers can pick up 5-gallon buckets direct from the farm.

Find us

You’ll see the sign on Penns Valley Road before you see the farm. Give us a call or stop in. 3484 Penns Valley Road, Spring Mills, PA 16875. By phone: 814-496-2179.

3484 Penns Valley Pike, Spring Mills, PA, United States

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