And to think it all started with $100 and a single shelf in an Alabama garage.

A modest beginning, it’s true, but Adam Hickman had big dreams and creative ideas as he founded a beekeeping company in the Birmingham metro area.

His buzzy business, Foxhound Bee Company , has expanded greatly over the past decade or so, going from a small homegrown enterprise to a fancy new location in Irondale.

Foxhound Bee Company now sits on a pretty, two-acre site near Ruffner Sports Complex , and boasts a 5,000-square-foot main building, three 9,000-square-foot warehouses, a classroom pavilion and more.

Alabama's Foxhound Bee Company has moved from downtown Birmingham to a two-acre location in Irondale. "The City of Irondale helped make the project possible, even establishing a new street, 'Ho

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