Our Story

How We Started Being In The Business

We are a small, family-owned bee removal company serving Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina, rescuing honey bees and solving bee problems across the Southeast since 2013.

Meet The South East Bee Removal Team

Jonathan Thiessen

Jonathan Thiessen is a Tyrone dad of three teenagers, married to Fiona, with an entrepreneurial spirit and a love for the outdoors. As an avid beekkeeper and co-founder of Castlewood Honey, his passion is to connect the dots between local business and community flourishing.out

Ewout Van Oosten

Ewout is originally from the Netherlands, now proudly rooted in Tyrone with his wife Ali and their three boys. As a licensed bee removal technician with 15 years of beekeeping under his belt and co-founder of Castlewood Honey, he brings a love for bees ,  nature and a genuine excitement for what local community can become.

Andrew Scott

Andrew Scott, originally from Northern Ireland has made Tyrone home for his family for the last 24 years. His wife Sharon and he have two married kids both living close by.
As someone who wears a number of hats in life it is important for him that all of them point towards increasing goodness, wholeness and beauty. Helping our clients with the removal of the bess and ensuring the bees can continue their critical work feels like a great expression of this.