A 100-year-old family business.
A letter in the mail.
And a jar of Oregon honey.
This is the Plyushchev family's story. If it moves you, a jar of honey is the best way to stand with us.
The Short Version
We're a fourth-generation beekeeping family in Mulino, Oregon. My name is Valeriy. My wife Rita, our children, and I keep bees in the foothills of the Willamette Valley — hives my father and grandfather taught me to tend.
This month, our family was handed a letter that put our future in the balance. We have a very short window to respond to it, and the cost of doing so is larger than anything a small honey operation was ever built to cover.
We built a store because we'd rather earn your help than ask for it — good honey from a real family that needs it. And if our story moves you to do more, we won't turn it away.
The Longer Version
My family came to America in 1992. My children were born here. For more than three decades, this country has been home — and Oregon, more than anywhere else, is where we've put down our roots. We keep bees, we serve our church, we raise our kids.
This month, the U.S. government sent me a letter. I have 10 days to leave the country with my family, or pay $1.8 million in fines — and those fines keep growing every day I'm still here.
We don't have that kind of money. What we have is a 100-year family beekeeping tradition, a small farm in Mulino, and the will to fight this through the courts. We're gearing up to hire an immigration attorney right now — and every order, every jar of honey we send out, helps fund that fight.
If you've already got your jar on the way and want to do more —
What we have for you: eight barrels of Oregon blackberry honey, a handful of gallons of mountain flower, ten gallons of rare bigleaf maple, and about two hundred starter hives ready for new beekeepers this spring.
So we built this store.
What You'll Get
- Raw Oregon Blackberry Honey — $39.99. Harvested this year. Unfiltered, unpasteurized. Free shipping.
- Mountain Flower Honey — $29.99. Small batch, limited. Free shipping.
- Bigleaf Maple Honey — $39.99. One of the rarest honeys in the Pacific Northwest. 120 jars exist. When they're gone, they're gone. Free shipping.
- The Golden Trio — $69.99. One jar of each. Free shipping. Save $40 vs. buying separately.
For beekeepers: 5-frame starter nucs ($295, local Mulino pickup) on the Beekeeping page.
Every order buys us time. Every order buys us a lawyer. Every order buys this little Oregon family a shot at keeping our hives, our home, and each other.
What Else You Can Do
- Share our story. The biggest gift is reaching the next person. If this page moved you, a link in a text to a friend changes everything.
- Stand with our family. If you'd rather give than buy, you can — there's a button below. No jar required. Though we'll send one as a thank-you anyway.
- Pray for us. Rita, me, and our kids.
Thank you for reading this far. We mean it.
— The Plyushchev family · Mulino, Oregon
Stand With Us
Some people who hear our story want to help beyond a jar of honey. If that's you, we won't pretend we're not grateful. Every dollar goes directly to legal fees and keeping the farm running.
Not tax-deductible. Goes directly to the Plyushchev family. Rita reads every name.