About me
Ang Roell is the founder of They Keep Bees. Ang co-leads apiary management and designed all elements of TKB’s queen school and online bee school offerings. Ang has studied beekeeping with Treatment Free Beekeeping all-stars like Dee Lusby and Kirk Webster. Ang worked with Sam Comfort fine tuning their grafting and queen handling skills before launching They Keep Bees. Ang started the stock for They Keep Bees in 2016 with a seed grant from the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources. From there, Ang built an apiary of 60 hives led by Russian and Carniolan queen bees, taught collegiate courses in beekeeping and open mated & selected from their stock for several years before officially launching bee sales in 2019. In that same year, They Keep Bees was awarded two NESARE grant funds that launched their current apicultural research projects in queen production. Now TKB focuses on how to produce high quality queens and teach others how to do the same. Ang and Bi are founding members of the Adaptive Bee Breeders Alliance- a group led by Melanie Kirby and dedicated to building climate resilient beekeeping practices. Ang’s professional background is in education, evaluation and facilitation. They are an award winning educator and facilitator, and currently work off farm part-time as an organizational consultant.
