Small-batch honey,
made by hand.

Raw, unfiltered honey from our family apiary. SOB stands for Sons of a Barber — and yeah, the other read is intentional. Established 2023.

Our Story

Sons of a Barber, keepers of bees.

SOB stands for Sons of a Barber. The other read — the one most people land on first — is half the joke. The real one is that this is a family thing: my sons and I, building something together with our name on it. SOB is the umbrella for everything we do as a family, and Honey is the first project we took all the way through.

A jar of SOB Honey held up against the sunlight in the yard.

None of this happens without my bee mentor (you know who you are — thanks for all you've done). For five years I'd ask him for a swarm and he'd tell me, “You're just not ready. You're just not ready.” Then one day he showed up in my yard, set a box down on the center block, and said:

These bees have chosen you, and you're gonna do great.

That was the start. From there we pushed hard — this year alone we've caught ten-plus swarms and we're nearly at twenty hives in the yard.

Every jar is raw, unfiltered, and small-batch — pulled from our own colonies, never blended with anything you didn't ask for. We don't pasteurize. We don't cut with corn syrup. We don't ship in from somewhere we can't pronounce. What you get is what came out of the comb, strained, and sealed the same week. That's the whole pitch.

From the Yard

Watch the bees at work.

Honest footage from the hives — inspections, harvests, swarm catches, and whatever else is going on that week.

The Yard

Wallace, North Carolina.

We're on the edge of a swamp in Wallace, NC. That edge matters: it gives us water year-round and something flowering pretty much every season, which is why our bees have thrived here. We're not trucking them anywhere to find food.

There's one pear tree in the yard that the bees can't leave alone — we end up pulling swarms out of it ten to fifteen times a year. It might be the busiest spot on the property.

Merch

Hats. Shirts. Mugs.

The SOB shop is open. Single-unit, print-on-demand — pick up a hat or a tee with the badge on it. New gear added as we go.

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