HANTZ HONEY - Key Persons
Les Hantz began working and learning the craft more seriously from Tom Penrose. Rod Murray, a fellow employee at the Penrose Operation, was also a fast learner and hard worker. Les started with Tom in 1944 and in 1951 Les Hantz decided seven years was a good enough apprenticeship, and so Les (L. A. Hantz) started the business "Lakeside Apiaries". That decade has often been called the fabulous fifties, and it was, with 36 ton of honey produced from 600 hives, that view was firmly reinforced.