Bees Beyond Borders
Beekeeping
Changes Lives
We teach the art and science of beekeeping to create sustainable income, stronger agriculture, and healthier communities.
From Florida to communities throughout the Caribbean, Bees Beyond Borders provides practical honey bee education, training and consulting designed to create beekeepers who can build something sustainable.
Caribbean Destinations
15+ Education missions completed
Beekeeping Education
From beginner to advanced
Sustainable Income
Helping communities become self-reliant
Women + Youth
Investing in the next generation
Knowledge that travels beyond borders
A HIVE CAN BECOME
AN INCOME.
Rural Beekeeping Development
For rural communities with limited economic opportunities, beekeeping offers a sustainable agricultural business that can begin small and grow. We teach practical skills that allow individuals and communities to manage colonies, improve pollination, produce honey and beeswax, and develop sustainable sources of income.
Honey · Income · Food · Education · Stronger Communities
Help knowledge travel farther
Help Us Teach
the Next Beekeeper.
Your donation helps put practical beekeeping knowledge into the hands of people who can build sustainable income, strengthen local agriculture and support their families.
Beekeeping Education in Haiti
FROM 6 LOG HIVES TO 75 COLONIES
In Haiti’s southern mountain region, Bo began working with a beekeeper who had inherited six traditional log hives from his grandfather. Within a year, he had grown to 20 colonies. The income helped him purchase a motorbike and eventually attend college. Five years later, he earned a degree in agroeconomics, manages 75 colonies, and now mentors the next generation of beekeepers.
Honey Bee Education • Sustainable Agriculture • Haiti • Food Security • Community Development
Follow one beekeeper’s journey from six inherited log hives to becoming a mentor for the next generation.
Stories. Knowledge. Conversation.
HEAR BEES BEYOND BORDERS
Conversations about honey bees, beekeeping and the future of apiculture.
Knowledge that travels beyond borders
OUR CARIBBEAN MISSIONS
Building beekeeping knowledge across the region. We work alongside agricultural agents, civic groups and local beekeepers to share practical skills suited to the Caribbean’s diverse communities and ecosystems.
OUR EDUCATION DESTINATIONS
A CARIBBEAN SUCCESS STORY
FROM 3 SURVIVING COLONIES TO 450+
American Foulbrood had devastated St. Vincent’s honey bee population. When Bo Sterk assessed the situation, only three surviving colonies were found. Working with agricultural officials in St. Lucia and St. Vincent, twenty healthy hives were transported by ferry from St. Lucia and quarantined on Bequia for one year before being introduced to St. Vincent.
Practical knowledge from the hive
LEARN BEEKEEPING
Watch. Learn. Become a Better Beekeeper.
BEEKEEPING EXPERIENCE THAT TRAVELS
Honey Bee
Consulting & Training
Bees Beyond Borders works alongside local beekeeping associations, agricultural departments and individual beekeepers to strengthen practical honey bee management skills.
Training programs typically combine classroom instruction with hands-on field work, giving participants the opportunity to understand not only what to do, but why—based on honey bee biology and sound colony management.
Whenever possible, Bo also works one-on-one with individual beekeepers, evaluating colonies, identifying challenges and offering practical options that respect local conditions, available resources and traditional methods.
Traditional beekeeping knowledge often passes from one generation
to the next. The goal isn’t to replace those traditions. It’s to
give beekeepers additional options—and an understanding of the
honey bee biology behind them.
WITH GRATITUDE TO
OUR PARTNERS
Our work is made possible by organizations and partners who believe beekeeping knowledge should travel beyond borders.
meet bo sterk
Teacher.
Beekeeper. Mentor.
Bo Sterk is the founder of Bees Beyond Borders and a Florida Master Craftsman Beekeeper. His passion is sharing the art and science of beekeeping with people who can use it to create lasting opportunity. In the field and in the lecture hall, Bo brings practical experience, patient instruction and a commitment to helping the next generation of beekeepers.
SAVE THE BEES • FEED THE PEOPLE
Practical beekeeping education
that crosses borders and
strengthens communities.
