About Brent

2026 Honey Harvest Crew

Brent Husted started beekeeping in 2008 with a single hive and no mentor — just persistence and a lot of trial and error. By 2015 he'd lost every colony he had. A captured swarm in 2018, not long after moving to Fort Worth, brought him back in, and this time he did things differently: instead of buying new bees every time something went wrong, he learned to split and rebuild his own colonies, which turned out to be the foundation needed to learn "sustainable beekeeping" and is the context for his current beekeeping business.

Today, Brent manages around 50 hives across three apiaries in Tarrant and Wise counties, raising Texas-bred queens and running Brent's Bees as a family operation — his kids have all pitched in over the years, and his oldest daughter is now a participating and active partner, bringing five years of hands-on experience to the business. When he's not in the bee yard, Brent teaches beekeeping basics to local clubs and schools, sharing what over fifteen years of mostly self-taught trial and error has taught him.