ABOUT US
Where there’s Brothers Bee Keeping honey, there’s hope.
Our honey. From bee, to bottle. It began in 2015 when a friend generously gifted Saingbey a top bar hive in Portland, Oregon. He knew it was something sweet and special, but he didn’t know how much one hive could change everything.
With his commitment to community, family and the diaspora, the interconnectedness potential of his hive soon began to resonate.
With a phone call from his father in Liberia, and some land, a hobby blossomed to become a path to create change, and Brothers Bee Keeping was born. He then set out to create a company that puts people over profits with sustainable and planet-first products. This is what makes BBK different. We proudly partner with local groups in efforts to connect those left out of life’s sweeter experiences with the same passion that inspired Brother’s Beekeeping—a hive.
At the start of just $30 per hive, we provide a sustainable and planet-friendly opportunity for members of our communities to build their own lives, one hive at a time.
Saingbey’s vision of giving back is a daily reminder to see the potential in everyone, and that's why every bottle of Brothers Bee Keeping honey and Honey Hot Sauces provides us all a chance to see the world a little bit differently.
When you buy Brother’s Bee Keeping honey, there’s hope, and that’s pretty sweet, if you ask us.
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Killer Bees Forever
Family frined Liz and I as she takes me onn my fist bee trip
2.75 acrres
father and fsamily,
apoeolomah village, fathers birthplace sanoyea kindom
po river, libria 3 acre prperty walking distance
po river liberia
Killer Bees Forever
Family frined Liz and I as she takes me onn my fist bee trip
2.75 acrres
father and fsamily,
apoeolomah village, fathers birthplace sanoyea kindom
po river, libria 3 acre prperty walking distance
po river liberia
Our Story
Our story began in 2015 when a friend generously gifted Saingbey a top bar hive, in Portland, Oregon. At this moment he knew that this was something sweet and special, but little did he know how much that first hive would change everything.
For Saingbey, this was more than just taking care of a few bees, it marked the beginning of a new chapter in his life. A true renaissance man, many interests have been explored, but he had a pivotal moment of clarity where he realized he could use his new found interest to help others, connect with his father, and his family in Liberia. The connections were all too clear. Just as clear as hive connects us to the planet. With the good we can on his shoulders he set out to create a honey company unlike any and thats what we continue to do today.
Our commitment to people over profits, uncompromising integrity, curiosity, transparency, and quality is what makes Brothers Bee Keeping different. It’s what makes us the best choice for Honey around. But we do so much more than just produce honey and honey based sauces. Saingbey’s vision of giving back inspires us every day to look beyond someone’s surface, to see their potential. Thats why every bottle of Brothers Bee Keeping Honey and Hot Sauces give others a chance to see the world differently and earn a living while building community.
To do this we first, created a company with the people and planet are at the core instead of profits. We aim to uplift the downtrodden .person for the job, regardless of criminal history. We have witnessed first-hand that someone’s potential is purely circumstantial and does not define their future. sometimes giving someone an opportunity/ home is all they need to become a xxxx. We are searching for partners on this journey in Portland, while in Liberia we work closely with Universal Outreach at an average of just $30 a hive we are able to provide a sustainable and environmentally friendly opportunity. A change in one bee means a change for the community and thats always sweeter than honey.
We beleive that profits and people does not have to be separate.
You dont hav to compramise with hwhere your dollar is spent.
We believe that honey doesn’t have to be boring.
At Brothers bee keeping the share holders are in the lives we aim to change.
And we belive that enoy all of lifes experiennces.
And we believe that people are capable of greatness. Honey is the start, we are all connected. bigger than
We believe we are all connected.
That’s what Brothers Bee Keeping is all about.
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The purpose of this entity is to impact the lifes of people while inherently exsposing them to become an enviromentaly curios human and simtaniouslet providing sustainable nacial oppurtunities and growth both personaly and nancially. Unfortunate in life there are all too many obstacles and biases placed upon us. Thriugh this we will prove that lifes experiences are deserved by all and that this one in particular is special. The mission is to stand for transparency and honesty in business and to show that black business can not only thrive but continue to add so much to the culture and community is apart of. We want to show that all of life’s experiences are open to those who are willing to try. We want to change peoples lifes in two main ways. One, be able to take the resources around and with a little help create opportunity for themselves while connecting them with nature that only truly a bee can. I know and believe through personal experience as well as case studies. (insert Chicago bee keeping, Dave’s killer bread, po - shines) that you become more aware and more compassionate. You understand that it doesn’t take a pandemic to realize how connected everything on this planet is connected. We want to grow to have at risk or previously incarcerated peoples get introduced into the Bee Keeping community here in Portland. The next step will be to then provide our own space, either co-opted or original, to call our own for honey production. We will look for collaborations within the community to help expedite this part of the mission. We not only want to give people the wonderful experience of bee keeping, but also how to run and operate a sustainable business with integrity and people rst mentality. It can not just be about the bottom line! Something our competitor are not doing in a outward facing way is partnering with chefs, and personalities to endorse product. From Last call Delivery Boys BBQ to many local restaurateurs and personalities that reach internationally. Relationships within the industry is key while building a wholesale b2b business. Also as inuence goes an integral part of marketing. I want to create a business community where values are the navigational system that truly guides this ship. Too often do we give our money to companies that have great values, but at the end of the day have to make investors happy, money and the bottom line at all costs. Our main value is transparency, compassion, empathy, and wonder? It is so important to ask where your hard earned money is going., but wonder is an important tool in life if you want to understand the other side of the tracks. we want a better world of understanding and compassion. With the bee you learn are unndenialey connecte to th eworkld aound you. This also extends and connects to human kind. Showinng that lifes experiences are for everyone and nnot one particular labeled group. Brothers is here to create self sustain communities in Liberia while also highliting and breaking down barriers through the low risk high reward activity of bee keeping. We will work with impoverished and “at risk” communities to promote nature connnecor, the bee while adheirnty promoting nature, capassionn, and a view that we are all connected. Hive by hive is such an important modo to the company. Each hive has undeniable connections far beyond our human nunderstanding, while in the works we have created will create self sutaining people and ultamitly, communities with compassion for nature as a red thread. We are about solving rral world issues. While buidlsindg sustain and sustainable, environmentaly rndly economic inndepent communities. Principbles include: Humanity over profit, Give before receiving, People over profit, Do the right thing. We are all in it together, How can I help?, Transparency #weareallbrothers #soulower We will be a distrupture company in the fact that we are inherently opporating, have diernet goals, and a completley fresh look to branding. We will be disruptive because there is no other competitor approcahing this in the sam manner. We are focused on changing the spaces we occupy and sharing an experience with a commninty that has not traditional been exposed to this industry. How you communicate: Your voice, personality, messaging, etc Notes: (turn this into paragraph) Hip hop(pop culture) Black, black American Informational, positive, light hearted, informal learning loves hip hop and has seen through travels far and wide how it has open the doors for black culture and people across the globe. Sport is the only other thing that I have seen do this, art, and there are still obviously many issues, but it is something familiar when approaching black culture, especially when we are competing on the shelves. Authenticaion is one of the most imortant things for consumers. With that in mind pertsonality will account for..... The reasona why are following. Someonewho has been on all sides of the tracks. 40 year old something (relates to millennials and gen x, old enough to appreciated and respect elders) What your brand’s products, services, and content look like: Your logo, colors, fonts, etc. Notes: show branding exercise, competitors, on shelf and internet research photos, mood boards etc. my chance to show what the company will actually look like / seeing is believing ) Products and service US, Raw local honey, t-shirts, sauces, hot honey, Thai chill hot honey sauce, sichoney, wangs and thangs sauce, collaboration with Last Call bbq honey sauce. Liberia, raw honey, export honey, wax products...farm production to help supplement income to grow operation while giving the bees enough pollen to stay happy. NOTES: Wax batiks molds...make the connection to outsource and collaborate with small line or organically sourced fabrics. Growth, cassava, owers, wax by products, owers, (know
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OUR MISSION
We celebrate and promote honey and the bee keeping community, while interejecting diveristy by means of exsposer. Selling raw honey sauces, and products we sponsor a hive in Libberia just for $30
I continually say we do what we can with what we have. But that doesnt mean we dont dream abbout thhe futture. Raw Honey and Honey Based sauces while diversifying and promoting the bee keeping community (US) in hopes to partner with, and or, be able to sustain our own honey production, while providing others a sustainable means of living. (Liberia) I;ve always wanted to more so I created a sustainable product whos sole mission around creating awareness, oppurtunity, empathy, and curiosity. While providing oppotunities for others to learn and grow.
Mission: What are you here to do? How do you create that future? After the experiance of taking care of bees this company eas formed to give hte experience of bee keepig to others which is such a powerful experience htha it creates an empathetic, connected, and curius human. This is importnat for the following reasons. exerience, skills, introduce
Empathy, through the experince you realize that what you do matters.
Connections, we are all human, and althoiugh our diversuty of contact we are all connected from this planet we inhait to the stars and galxies far far away.
Curious, in a world that changes overnight the importance of asking questions and remaining vigilantly curious is ever so important.
Brothers is here to create self sustain communities in Liberia while also highliting and breaking down barriers through the low
risk high reward activity of bee keeping. We will work with impoverished and “at risk” communities to promote nature connnecor, the bee while adheirnty promoting nature, capassionn, and a view that we are all connected. Hive by hive is such an important modo to the company. Each hive has undeniable connections far beyond our human nunderstanding, while in the works we have created will create self sutaining people and ultamitly, communities with compassion for nature as a red thread. call in industry insiders for Tag Lines, copywriting, Bernie. Etc. adi, nike, WIDEN & KENNEDY talent, Jordans girl!!!!!) Portland has a huge advantage of having such a creative industry. Play this up as personal strength and connections within Portland. Use Portland as a strength for the company in this way as well. We are a company that really has one simple goal of a better planet through the mediums and connections of humans and the planet. Specically bees, which have a key role in the cycle of nature. Strength for startup
Thhis experince is great for
VISION
The time is now and we do what we can with what we have. The potential is what excites me. The oppurtunity to help people we are connected to then we can. We uare using what resoureces we have in hope to continue to grow. Here in america the plan is to introduce “at risk youths” to the urban nbee coomunity. IN hope to foster a relationship to hhave our own hihve and space to to fully incoporate poeple oppporate a verticle business.
With the oppurtunity of our souces to provide we want to partner with and grow to employ the so called at risk and or peviosly encarcerated here in the US. While …. the oppurtinuy ito immediatley impact is n Liberia is so exciting. so little goes so far. with t$300 of profit enables us to provide a hive, plus year of education, and training through harvest.
VALUES
Transparency, empathy, curiosity, connection, and truth.
Transparency: After working for a major company, this is one of the first things that I wanted in a compnay. While many, like my previous employers outwardsly show transparency when behind closed doors it often tells another story. We envite you to as we share our .
As one personn put it, there is no secrets to what I do. On all these cooking shows they want to hhide, but what we do is simple. Work hard!
Empathy:
Curiosity: The importance of asking questions is one of the most important values we have ans would like to pass on. From the very young age of when I learned Colunmbus did not “discover“ this land literally or figurarivtly, I started to ask, why would they teach me this. What do they hhave tp gain by lying? What else are thet lyng about? At that point it started a path of not acepting what is told. You have to do the work to find the truthh, but it is out
Truth:
Brothers Bee Keeping currently uses raw, organic honey from local farmers in Southern Washington. Even our spices are fresh. Just because pickling is a preservation process doesn’t mean you can use dried-up thyme or week-old asparagus that’s already a little spongy.
We want to give our customers sustainable, healthy and delicious honey based sauces and products. Most of all, we want to expand the oppurtunity forpeople’s palates and prove that pickles don’t always come in a green or red variety.