Bee Healthy under new ownership

 

July 25, 2017

Tracie Mitchell

Bee Healthy under new ownership Monday morning at the Bee Healthy health food store in Worland, new owner Janet Heron kneels behind a chair full of some of the repurposed items and stationery that she plans on selling along with the supplements, essential oils, vitamins and healthy non-processed vegan snacks, dairy, vegetables and honey.

WORLAND – The main street in Worland, Big Horn Avenue almost lost another business, but thanks to former owner Janene Dorr and new owner Janet Heron, the Bee Healthy health food store will remain open for business, right where it is, with a grand opening planned for the second week in August, right before the eclipse.

Former owner Dorr opened the business in 2011 and recently decided that she needed to either shut down the store or move it to her greenhouse [Enchanted Gardens] to make it easier to tend to both businesses. After hiring Heron four months earlier, the two were discussing the future of the store when Heron stated her interest in starting a new chapter of her life and of purchasing the business. "I actually had plans to move this [Bee Healthy] over there [greenhouse] and then Janet came along and decided that she wanted to buy it instead of me moving it. It's very exciting to have somebody so excited to take it over and keep it going because I didn't want it to just be gone," Dorr said.

"I'm beyond excited about being here and being of service to the communities of the Big Horn Basin. Seeing people improve their lives through better eating and better habits is what gets me excited, what I am enthusiastic about, reaching as many people as possible. Helping them make intelligent or wise decisions," Heron said. "We want people to know that here at Bee Healthy we are dedicated to optimizing people's overall health. Nothing is a cure all in my mind but there are ways to better ones sense of well-being. That's what I want to try to do, assist people in making good decisions, what's going to be the best way to stay healthy," she added.

Heron has some big plans for the business and thanks Dorr for not only being her mentor to become more knowledgeable in supplements, essential oils and vitamins but also a great friend who created a great business. She stated that Dorr has been very supportive in the changes that she has envisioned for the store and has encouraged her to take the business to a new dimension. "To me, Bee Healthy, just like our bodies, continue to change and evolve and ask for different things, I think businesses also need to change and evolve and I believe Bee Healthy will continue to do just that by bringing in new products and keeping things fresh," Heron said.

Bee Healthy will continue to carry Nature's Sunshine products, natural soaps, fresh produce from Lloyd Craft Farms, Bryant Honey and non-processed raw vegan snacks, some dairy and beverages. But she is also planning on also selling repurposed items and stationery. Heron said that she wants to showcase local products, products made in the Big Horn Basin. "These are gifts that are made by artisans, crafters, just locally made, items that have been found and then put to use again like the seed sack pillow. I think that we need to honor what we have here, the artisans," she said. "Also new will be the emphasis to try to reinvigorate the art of writing notes, cards and using stationery. We will carry a variety of unique different post cards, notes and stationery," she added.

The future for the business may hold other changes as well, such as a juice bar, a Wi-Fi café where people in the community can mingle or sit and read and maybe a yoga studio or a bed and breakfast upstairs.

Heron plans on utilizing the Bee healthy Facebook page to let her customers what is happening each week, such as a discount on ice cream so people know that she carries ice cream.

Originally from Colorado, Heron taught in the Denver Public School system for 10 years before moving to Jackson where she met her husband Rob. In Jackson she worked at an art gallery and ran her own business as a certified household manager before moving to Worland nine years ago.

She said that she was visiting her husband who was doing a job in Worland when she fell in love with the area and decided to move here. "The people here are so authentic and genuine."

 
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