About Our Honey

Our honey comes predominantly from native, local, naturally occurring flowering plants. Our All-season honey was left in the hives for our bees to use as their winter food. When the new season starts, we remove that honey to make room for the new crop. It’s a blend of nectars from throughout the season. Our Spring mild honey comes from the nectar of the very earliest flowering trees and woody shrubs such as pussy willow, Serviceberry, Sugar and Red maples, sumac, etc. The bees collect nectar from our May dandelion bloom to produce our Spring “Bold” honey. Our Early summer harvest is a milder honey that  comes from nectar collected during June and early July Basswood honey at that time of the year is flavored mostly by Linden (Basswood) trees. Other nectar sources for this honey are White clover, flowering trees like cherries, Black locust, blueberries, raspberries, etc. Our White clover season honey is from… white clover!  Our Summer mixed wildflower, Late summer amber wildflower, and Amber wildflower bold honeys come from local wildflowers and legumes that bloom during July and August. We often have different color and flavor variations during this period. Goldenrod honey is produced only in some years during a 3-week period in the last half of August into early September when Goldenrod is blooming – but not every year! Our stronger flavored Fall harvest honey comes from wildflowers that bloom during late August and early September.   

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