Hello! My name is Eimi OstaraMoon, the founder/owner of Poison and Bee LLC, a misfit hailed from The Fragrant Harbor of the Pearl River, and the Poison Plant Witch behind @poisonbee.eimi (formerly @poisonplantwitchery) on Instagram. I bid you welcome to my poison and bee garden. I once was a software engineer, then a professional dancer⦠Now I am a herb grower, a honey bee steward and a poison plant wrangler.
Poison and Bee grew out of my love for magical plants, especially the deadly ones, and honey bees. The paradoxical nature of βpoison as medicineβ fascinates me; and I consider honey bees, with their roles as divine messengers, to be powerful witchβs allies.
I have always had an interest in natural medicines, and have worked with plants and herbs all my life. Growing up using Traditional Chinese Medicine has taught me that plants and herbs have incredible powers to heal physically and spiritually; but they also have the power to harm, even to kill. βPoison as medicineβ is a concept Iβve always known, even when I didnβt realize it. My (re)discovery of witchcraft and green magic reawakened that memory and awareness.
My call to work with honey bees started with my love for the gifts from honey bees β royal jelly, bee pollen, honey, beeswax and propolis. I grew up taking them as health supplements; beeswax is always an important ingredient in my handcrafted salves and ointments; and I call honey βliquid goldβ. Historically bees had always had a role in folklore across different cultures. They are sacred to many deities; are thought to be psychopomps and able to travel between worlds. Some even consider bees as witchβs familiars. Honey bees became part of my magical practice naturally after I started my own apiary and working closely with them.
Poison and Bee is the outcome of following the guidance of plant allies and honey bees. It is by no means the final destination. In fact it is only the beginning of an exciting adventure. I hope you will join me on this journey into the mysteries of poisons and bees.
Natural. Raw. Local Artisan Honey Magic.
Poison and Bee is also a husband-and-wife team of “bee stewards”, a big city girl from Hong Kong, and a country boy who grew up in Wyoming, who started our beekeeping journey years ago. Guided by the desire to do it as natural as possible, as well as the concept of being more than “keepers of bees”, we following principles of natural beekeeping. This means we do not use chemicals to treat our hives or on our property; we utilize Integrated Pest Management (IPM) strategy in dealing with pests, and we aim to provide the most natural environmentΒ possibleΒ for the bees.Β Our goal is by developing an intimate relationship with honey bees, we are guided by them to create deeper connections with the Land and Mother Nature. We harvest in small batches, only when the bees have a surplus of honey during nectar flow (usually between June through August), and we always leave the ladies at least half of the colony’s honey stores. Our honey bees keep their fall honey to help them survive the winter.
Our “artisan honey” is produced locally in the town of Franklin, TX by our treatment-free honey bees, with nectar from our local wildflowers. The honey is minimally filtered, just to get the big beeswax bits out, but keep the propolis, pollen, and all the nutrients and enzymes that make honey a “super food”. Our honey is NEVER heat treated, other than by the natural Texas summer heat. Since we do not feed our honey bees sugar water unless it is absolutely necessary at the end of winter/the beginning of spring (when no honey is harvested at all), the honey is truly “natural”, made with wildflower nectar. As the honey bees forage from different flowers throughout the year, differ from year to year, our honey also has slight variations in taste and texture between years. It is another proof that the honey is raw and unadulterated.
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(Updated June 21, 2026, Summer Solstice)
