Our Story

Saving Lives. For the past 12 years, Valor Honey, once a part of the SAVE Farm, has led an initiative to use beekeeping and honey production as a platform to assist military members and veterans, particularly those with Suicidal Ideation, Post Traumatic Stress, and Brain Injury. Valor has experienced significant success in its efforts to bring those persons to wholeness. The method used is beekeeping and honey production coupled with conventional psychological treatment. Many lives have been saved by Valor Honey and many, many more have recovered and reintegrated into society using this approach. Unfortunately, too many more do not have access to this pathway to wellness.

Saving Bees. Honeybees are under great stress and, as a result, agriculture suffers from the lack of pollinators and from a shortage of authentic honey. Over a year ago, the Kansas State University Department of Entomology began working with Valor Honey so that beekeeping training could be added to the course offering. The first semester of training for 22 student has ended with great success. Simultaneously, the Department of Entomology has been engaging in research to solve some of the most stubborn problems causing the decline in bee sustainability and honey production. They are at the forefront of an emerging discovery that can change the industry internationally.

Saving an Industry. The American Honey Producers Association is in the forefront in communicating that the beekeeping and honey production Industry is in decline. Maintaining and sustaining bee populations to provide for pollination and honey production is increasingly difficult. Further, domestic honey production is not profitable because of cheap adulterated foreign honey flooding the market. Up to 70% of the honey on the market today is not really honey at all. Cheap foreign substitutes displace authentic domestic honey. There is not an independent unbiased independent certification program, nor is there a communication program that adequately informs our public.

Under one roof in Manhattan, Kansas, these four organizations can provide answers to these perplexing problems.