About Me

My name is Jason and I’m a Bee Nerd. 😁 Wanting to live a more sustainable life I came to Michigan taking up the beekeeping hobby. Now you can join the “combunity” too. I’ve been interested (from a distance) in bees but it took me several years to built up the courage to take up beekeeping as a hobby, and now as a small business.

I live proudly in Auburn Hills, Michigan. I’ve was born and raised in the great state of Vermont, then in Missouri where I received a dual bachelor degree from Missouri University of Science and Technology in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering. I came to Michigan in 2017 to work in the automotive industry, bought a house here, and had the thought “That spot in the backyard needs some bees.”

Really though I’m a passionate person who loves animals and wants to live a sustainable life. I have a passion for gardening to grow some of my own crops and of course bees fall into that plan. It’s in the name “CombUnity” – a homophone of “community”. Because I believe in our community. Not just the community of people that live in the same city but of the community consisting of all our natural resources – plants, water, trees, birds, mammals, fish, and lest we forget… the bees. Without the bees, we don’t have a CombUnity.

If you are interested in being part of the CombUnity family with our hive leasing program, please send me an email on the contact us form. I do all the beekeeping work, you focus on planting bee friendly native plants and using less pesticides. We both come out with some tasty delicious honey and the hope is that the bees live better lives too.

If you came here for the sticky sweat stuff but don’t think you have the space for bees, head over to the shop. I can ship jars of honey to anywhere in Michigan. My honey is only course filtered and never heated. It comes from only my own apiaries through the hive leasing program and never imported from another state or country. Your purchase allows me to keep beekeeping and helps our pollinator friends. Thank you.