Our Honey

We are committed to producing raw, small batch, local honey that reflects the terroir of Prince Edward County. All our honey is produced by our own bees, labeled according to location and season, and sold in the same year it was harvested. This is the freshest and best tasting honey you can buy, guaranteed.

Raw honey is not heated during the extracting process. We use a cold process to remove the cappings, then spin the frames to extract the honey from the cells. The honey flows into a five-gallon bucket and is poured into glass jars within 24 hours. This minimal processing preserves the flavour, aroma, and nutritional components so you get the best in every jar.

Small batch means that we are a micro-apiary, producing honey in limited quantities throughout the summer – and we bottle the honey individually from each season, and from each beeyard (unlike large commercial beekeepers who harvest once or twice a year and blend everything together). Every harvest is different in flavour and colour, depending on the flowers that were in bloom at the time, and no two harvests are ever the same. Weather patterns also play a role, so a dry summer will produce a thick, dark, strong-tasting honey while wet weather results in honey that’s lighter in flavour and colour. We maintain fewer than 50 hives, and we manage our bees based on what’s best for them – as opposed to using methods that maximize honey production at the expense of the bees’ wellbeing. Our production is extremely limited and we always sell out before the end of the year. (So purchase a CSA to ensure you don’t miss out!)

Our local honey is produced exclusively at six locations in Prince Edward County – Waupoos, Black Creek, Sandbanks, Picton, Bloomfield, and Wellington. Each location has been chosen to offer the bees a unique variety of blossoms to forage on – so the honey is different from location to location, and from one season to the next. Every harvest offers a different flavour and colour and is a unique snapshot of the time and place as the bees experienced it through the flowers in bloom in that area at the time.

You can rest assured that all of the honey we sell is produced by our own bees. We never purchase bulk honey from other beekeepers to supplement our harvest (an unfortunately common practice among many smaller producers). If it has our label, you can rest assured that it was produced by our own bees at one of our own bee yards – so we can guarantee the quality and safety of every jar.