How it all started.

After high school (1987) and while going to college, I was cleaning and removing wildlife from chimneys part time and summers. I learned to install and replace flue liners, fix crowns, repoint chimneys and the likes. Regardless of passing all my farming classes in honeybees, poultry, fish farming, hydro and aquaponic (fish) farming; I went on to become a Real Estate Appraiser.

In 2006, while appraising residential and commercial property, I started working honeybees as a hobby in SW Florida. It wasn't long before I started getting calls for swarm removals and then large colony removals. My wife and I went from two hobby hives to twenty hobby hives in no time. In 2009 the real estate market crashed. We purchased our first agricultural property and started an apiary (bee farm) called The Bees Choice Farms. 

In 2011 The Bees Choice Farms started rescuing and relocating turtles, skunks, raccoons, opossums, the occasional bat and small animal livestock. We expanded the farm  to include 140 hives, a native plant nursery, hatching 200 chicks per month, 100 egg laying chickens, produced 100% raw honey and pasture raised meat birds.  From 2014 to 2020 in cooperation with the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, we taught beekeeping for the UF's county outreach program.

In 2024, my wife Jennifer had some health issues, she wanted to be closer to our grand children. We sold the farm and moved to Cookeville where the whole family resides. We have a private farm in Sparta and live here in Cookeville. We are animal advocates, we believe in the humane treatment of all wildlife and follow all wildlife laws.