Our Honey
Our All-Natural Honey
Every honey jar we produce has a story behind it.
It’s the tale of the chaparral that without fail blooms year after year. The tale of thousands of worker bees that have foraged the hillsides in search of the nectar that will become our honey.
We harvest our honey many times during the summer, as every harvest offers some uniqueness with the blooms' changing flora. The goldenrod blooms are our signal to wrap up our harvesting season, giving the bees a chance to gather enough nectar for themselves so they can survive during the winter.
All-Natural Honey Comes From Local Flora
What flowers bloom in our area that create the flavorful honeys our customers can enjoy?
Willows and manzanita (late winter, early spring)
Sage and buckwheat (long mid-summer days; this is the time of year when the colony's workforce is the busiest and strongest and can forage for long hours. It is also the time of year that most of our honey is harvested.
Sage honey is light in color and slowly crystallizes. It has a mild, smooth taste and is one of the best smelling honey we have produced and tasted. Buckwheat honey is darker in color and full of minerals. It's naturally got a hint of caramel molasses flavors.
Early spring willow blooms produce a high protein pollen that enables the honeybees to reproduce and prepare for the foraging season.
Wild mustard honey, not a native to the area, has a light yellowish color that rapidly crystallizes. Wild mustard flowers tend to bloom thick in areas that have been ravaged by fire the year prior. Despite the name, it has a sweet buttery flavor (not a mustard one). It's the perfect honey to produce creamed honey.
Our bees forage up to two miles away from the hive and on the area's native plants. This gives the honey a sweet savory, woody taste, with many of our honeys tasting and smelling like wildflowers.
Our honey's flavor differs every year based on an array of factors such as droughts, freezes, fires, etc. Certain floras will struggle while others tend to thrive. Rainfall has a tremendous impact on how much honey we can produce.
Some nectars have a higher sugar content, attracting the bees to them. Some pollen have a higher protein content that bees are also attracted to. This protein is fed to the larva to reproduce and grow the colony. During the mid-summer months, each colony has roughly 40,000 bees.
Eco-Friendly To Create Unique Honey Experience
We make sure that every jar of our honey is as natural as can be, and that goes for the packaging as well. We use only glass containers because they can be recycled, reused and is healthier for the environment. Unlike plastic, there's no chance for chemicals to leak into the honey.
Our honey is branded and marketed so our customers get a fairytale-like experience. They get the wonderful gift Mother Nature offers without having to do the hard work that go into producing honey.
Although last year's wildflowers are gone, our honey's taste and aroma provides our customers with a chance to enjoy the warm spring day of not so long ago.