Sustainable Beekeeping

Our Raw, Wildflower honey is the result of what we like to call "Sustainable Beekeeping."

Most honey is harvested with the use of chemicals which force the bees down into their lower hive and away from the boxes which hold the honey. This technique makes it really easy and fast to remove honey, but we can't help wondering how much the chemicals linger and add to toxicity in the hive. In our opinion, it is also very disrespectful to the bees who work hard to make the honey we take from them. It is our practice, instead, to remove each frame of honey individually and gently brush the bees back into the hive, walk the frame to an empty box and return for the next frame.

The other element of our method is in the way we feed our bees over winter. Typical beekeeping involves feeding the hive with sugar syrup when other reserves run low. Instead of living on a junk food diet of sugar syrup, we reserve greater portions of the honey harvest for our bees. This means less honey for us to sell, but we believe our sustainable beekeeping methods will benefit us in the long run with less stressed, stronger and healthier hives. As a result of these practices we expect to see larger bee populations, lower disease incidence and faster collection of honey in the spring.

Honey Harvesting

See step-by-step how we harvest our honey.