Anita & Brian Deeley — Owners, Beekeepers, Educators, Advocates, Makers
Welcome to Beverly Bees! We’re Anita and Brian Deeley—a husband-and-wife team of Massachusetts beekeepers who run BeverlyBees, a local honey farm based in Beverly, MA. Together, we specialize in sustainable and organic beekeeping, live bee and wasp removals, pollinator education, and produce award-winning raw local honey and handmade beeswax candles and skin care products.
We are a family business with 3 kids, 100 chickens, a siamese cat and millions of bees! From managing hives to crafting candles, rescuing bees, and teaching the public about the critical role pollinators play in our ecosystem, if it is bee related we do it all!
Beverly Bees services include beekeeping education and advocacy, turn key custom hive management services through our host a hive program, bee and wasp removal services, honey bee swarm rescue services and honeybee education talks and hive openings and markets. We make amazing all natural sustainable bee products including award winning local raw honey, handmade beeswax candles, organic lip balms, lotions, salves and more.
Meet Anita
Anita is the founder of Beverly Bees and a lifelong pollinator advocate.
- Biologist by training and former Massachusetts State Bee Inspector (for 7 years) and an expert in honey bee health and disease.
- Over 100 honey bee hives managed sustainably under her stewardship throughout Massachusetts
- Filmmaker, writer, educator, minister and beekeeper—stung over 900 times through creative curiosity & passion
- Award-winning honey producer, honored with multiple Good Food Awards
- Helps with live bee and wasp removals, rescuing and relocating bee swarm and colonies
- Shares her love for beekeeping via educational workshops, conferences, and blog tutorials
- Creator of all educational bee content including Beverly Bees beekeeping school, social media content, YouTube videos, and blog articles
- Personally makes and assembles all customer products and orders, from lip balms to lotions to packaging every jar of honey with care
- Manages all customer emails, inquiries, invoicing and scheduling for services and orders
- Passionate educator and storyteller, sharing the wonders of the hive with schools, conferences, and online audiences
- Anita has been featured in American Bee Journal, Hobby Farms and Grit Magazine, CBS News and more. She loves to share her enthusiasm about bees and run educational programs for beekeepers and others.
Meet Brian
Brian is co-owner of Beverly Bees and the hands-on lead for all fieldwork and customer outreach.
- Handles all live bee and wasp removals, safely relocating colonies from homes, buildings, trees, boats, and more
- Maintains our Host-A-Hive program, ensuring healthy hives at homes, schools, and businesses
- Gives educational talks at schools, markets, and community events
- Brings a background in sales, connecting people to bees and our handcrafted goods
- Makes our hand-poured beeswax candles and supports product creation
- A skilled handyman, he builds, repairs, and maintains beekeeping equipment and hive setups
- In charge of our bee package pickup and distribution each year
- A welcoming presence at farmers markets, sharing honey samples and bee wisdom with visitors
Together, Anita and Brian combine creativity, science, craftsmanship, and community to bring bees and people closer together and protect the environment through good stewardship of pollinators and education.
What We Do
At Beverly Bees, we offer:
- Live bee and wasp removals — humane, eco-friendly, and pesticide-free
- A unique Host-A-Hive program placing hives in backyards, schools, and businesses
- Educational talks, school visits, and public workshops
- A full line of handmade, small-batch products: raw honey, beeswax candles, lip balms, lotion bars, salves, and more
- Online ordering, local pick up and local farmers market booths
- Ongoing education via our bee school, blog posts, videos, and social media to share real-world beekeeping with others
Our bees are rescued, nurtured, and maintained in chemical-free environments, often saved from extermination and given a new lease on life.
How It All Started
In 2011, Anita began beekeeping with a single rooftop hive. That spark grew into a deep calling—to rescue bees, educate others, and offer sustainable, bee-based products. As the apiary expanded, Brian joined full-time, bringing his practical skills and sales expertise to grow Beverly Bees into the mission-driven family business it is today.
With over a decade of experience and a shared passion for pollinators, we’ve built Beverly Bees as a place where bees are protected, knowledge is shared, and handmade goods bring nature’s bounty to your home.
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- 🏣 Visit Brian at the farmers market to sample our award-winning honey
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- 🐝 Host a hive, order handmade products, or just reach out to say hello
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Contact us anytime at beverlybees@gmail.com.
Thank you for being part of our hive!
— Anita & Brian Deeley
Beverly Bees
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About Anita and Beverly Bees Bee Blog
Anita started out as a backyard beekeeper full of enthusiasm and trepidation with only a single hive on her rooftop. Her passion and quest for beekeeping knowledge led her on an adventure across America that would change her path forever. You can read about this journey since day one here on her beekeeping blog.
On the blog the bees are the stars. Through Anita’s beekeeping chronicles, photos and videos, she empowers and support others in their beekeeping endeavors. She writes How-To’s for Beginners and Advanced Beekeepers from Parts of A Bee Hive to How To Autopsy A Dead Bee Colony to How to Make A Candy Board For Winter Feeding She travels to beekeeping conferences and seminars, visiting beekeepers across the country and shares this knowledge and beekeeping methods here. Want to learn about Treatment Free Beekeeping or Top Bar Hives, just click on the menu above. Just wondering what you can do to help save the bees? Try planting some bee friendly flowers for them to forage on, simply read how here.
Every beekeeper has their own way of doing things and every beehive has its own personality. Anita and Brian manage 100 hives in backyards and businesses across Massachusetts, including rooftops! Beverly Bees uses Langstroths and top bars, full size hives and nucs. Most of our bees come from swarms and bee removals, as well as selected mite resistant genetics brought in from other beekeepers’ bees.
In Massachusetts, We rescue wayward bee swarms and remove unwanted honeybee hives from houses. Through our Host A Hive program we teach non beekeepers about the importance of bees and just how amazing the honeybee is. Seasonally, we sell honey from our hives, beeswax candles, lip balms and lotions online, through local pickup, wholesale and to customers at Farmer’s Markets.
Prior to becoming a beekeeper, Anita worked in pharmaceuticals and as a research scientist studying cell biology at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA. She later become a video editor where she edited independent films, commercials and infomercials and traveled to film festivals across the country premiering a short film she directed and edited. When she is not spending time with her girls (the bees), she enjoys being a wife to her beekeeping cohort and husband and a mother to 3 boys (the beekeepers in training). She has been on the Board of Directors for the Essex County Beekeepers Association and Massachusetts Beekeepers Association, Pollinator Stewardship Council, appointed to the the Mosquito Control for the Twenty-First Century Task Force (MCTF) by the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) and a member of Worcester County Beekeepers, Plymouth County Beekeepers, Eastern Apicultural Society and American Apitherapy Association.
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Anita Deeley Bio
Anita Deeley is a biologist, former state bee inspector and founder/CEO of Beverly Bees, a sustainable beekeeping and bee removal company located in Beverly, MA.
Beverly Bees makes award winning micro batch honey, handmade 100% pure beeswax candles and organic beeswax skin care from their organic and sustainably managed hives located in backyards across Massachusetts. They help bees by rescuing unwanted nuisance bees from buildings and trees, saving them from extermination. They rehabilitate, care for and maintain these hives in pesticide free locations. Starting with only one hive on a rooftop nine years ago, Anita has grown her bee business over 100 hives today. Beverly Bees honey and honey comb recently won five Good Food Awards for taste and sustainable beekeeping, for which there were over 2000 entries.
Prior to running Beverly Bees, Anita worked as a honey bee inspector for the state of Massachusetts educating beekeepers about the health of their bees and how to better manage them.She provided educational workshops and training on bee biology, health and disease as well as native pollinators and their habitat. She also helped develop the protocol for and performed pesticide inspections of honey bee kills and worked with the USDA to conduct honey bee health surveys. Anita managed a Massachusetts State Apiary location providing education on honey bee health, disease and management and beekeeping demonstrations for the public there.
As the queen bee at Beverly Bees Anita maintains her own stock of bees that she developed from feral colonies she rescued with select mite resistance genetics. Anita has been featured in the American Beekeeping Journal, Northshore Magazine, Edible Boston, Beverly Magazine, Hobby Farms, Grit Magazine, CBS 4 – It Happens Here and numerous news programs, newspaper articles and websites. She lives in Beverly, Massachusetts on her small bee friendly farm with her husband Brian, three sons, 18 chickens, Siamese cat and millions of honey bees.
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