BOSSIER CITY, La. - This spring, bees are beginning to multiply as it is their time to shine and that means Hummer & Son is working with them to get their season started to create honey. William Hummer is a beekeeper and honey producer in Bossier City. He started when he got his first beehive in the fifth grade. His interest in beekeeping never left so he went to college and studied insects. When he would go home during school breaks, he would continue beekeeping with his late dad, creating Hummer & Son Honey in 1986. William Hummer of Hummer & Son Honey. âThis is a great place to raise bees, being in the delta of the Red River,â said Hummer. âVery fertile land, abundance of flowers."