People have asked how we chose the unusual name, Happy Bee Heirloom Farm.  When we purchased the property it was a barren cornfield without other vegetation or wildlife.  An important part of our mission is to restore habitat for wildlife, so when corn was no longer planted the fields returned to other vegetation. It was mostly weeds, but some native plants (such as milkweed) appeared and brought with them bees and monarch butterflies.  This was a most welcome addition to our landscape that had been farmed for many years.

The following year we watched as the vegetative landscape changed and with it came other flowering plants and also a variety of insects including several kinds of bees.  We were delighted with the arrival of different bee species and started to keep records when sighting different bees.  During this time we tried to choose an appropriate name for our farm.

One day, Marty Siracusa announced that the name for our farm would be “Happy Bee” because there were so many bees on all the different flowers, and the bees were happy visiting one flower after another. 

In order not to confuse people to think ours was a bee farm, we decided to include the types of vegetables we grew.  Since we intended to create wildlife habitat, we recognized that just by letting native and wild plants grow, the bees would return on their own.  Thus, Happy Bee Heirloom Farm became the name. 

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