108 Years, Five Generations and Some Pretty Strong Hall Genes

Yerington NV – September 16, 2026

From Carrie Baker Gilmore of Viking Girl Lavender with Hall’s Honey:

This is one of those things I think is pretty darn special.

I’ve been lucky enough to become a small part of the Hall’s Honey story, but what I really love is getting to watch Ryan work alongside his mom, carrying on a family tradition that started with his great-great-grandfather in 1918.

108 years. Five generations. That’s pretty incredible.

And seriously…look at Fletcher and then look at Ryan. Those Hall genes did NOT mess around.

Pretty proud of this family and the history they continue to carry forward.

108 years. Five generations. And some pretty strong Hall genes.

A couple of weeks ago, we spent three long, sticky days harvesting this year’s honey with Hall’s Honey. And while there’s plenty we could say about the honey harvest itself, this story is really about something much bigger.

The gentleman in the old photograph is Fletcher Hall, Ryan’s great-great-grandfather. Fletcher started Hall’s Honey in 1918.

Beside him, 108 years later, is Ryan — the fifth generation of his family to carry on that beekeeping tradition.

And yes…we’ve always thought the resemblance was a little uncanny.

But what makes this story even more special is that Ryan still gets to work the bees and harvest honey alongside his mom, Debbie — Hall’s Honey’s fourth-generation beekeeper.

Think about that for a minute.

For more than a century, knowledge about bees has been passed from one generation of this family to the next. Equipment has changed. Methods have evolved. There have undoubtedly been good honey years and not-so-good honey years. But through it all, the bees — and the family tradition surrounding them — have remained.

I feel incredibly blessed to have married into this family and to get to play a small part in a tradition that began long before any of us.

But one of my favorite things is simply watching Ryan and his mom work together, knowing they’re continuing something Fletcher started all those years ago.

From Fletcher Hall in 1918 to Debbie and Ryan in the honey house in 2026.

Fourth generation beside fifth.

That’s more than honey.

That’s 108 years of family history still being written.

— Hall’s Honey • Yerington, Nevada • Since 1918

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A few articles from the Mason Valley News posted about Hall’s Honey throughout the years (print is not crisp):

May 29, 1964:

From Cox’s Column on January 19, 1973: