Dear friends in the beekeeping world,
The Revolutionary Hives team would like to thank you for all of the support that you have given us over the last five years. Unfortunately, we will be closing down our small business as of May 31st. For those of you who know our story, you know that Revolutionary Hives was started in 2019 when my wife’s father, Luther Cifers wanted to give the beekeeping world new options for feeding and watering bees and our Bucket Bee Raft was released. We have had great responses to the Bee Raft, it has been a solid option for lots of you and its success paved the way for the Bee Buffet; a multi-use hive top feeder that we have had great response to as well. So why is Revolutionary Hives shutting down? The biggest reason is, as some of you know, we lost Luther early in 2023 to pancreatic cancer. This was a huge blow to us in every way. On top of being the great person that he was and all that he meant to us as family; he was the heart and soul of Revolutionary Hives. He had kept bees since the 1980’s and all of that experience, passion and expertise was what led him to come up with the product line that we have now. Unfortunately, without him here, we are unable to replicate that knowledge, experience and passion and continue creating new products. Only having two product options and without the experience and knowledge to create more, it has become impossible to continue on and grow this business. So where does that leave Revolutionary Hives? Well, our feeders will be available on our website until May 31st. Our entire product line will be available with a 10% discount until we close.  Our dealers across the country should still have some stock available until sold out. We will be contacting our dealers for any last distributions they may want, and ultimately, we are going to try to find a company that would like to incorporate our Bee Buffet and Bucket Bee Rafts into their existing product line. We hope to continue to watch Luther’s inventions help beekeepers for years to come, we just won’t be able to do that with a stand alone business. We greatly appreciate all of the support that we have been blessed with over the past 5 years and are very thankful for the contacts and friends that we have made from that. From the Revolutionary Hives Family, we want to show our appreciation and say “thank you”.