Honey Maker Farm is a family owned and operated small farm apiary in North Carolina producing local fresh honey. We do not treat, heat, blend, nor add anything to our honey. We believe the bees make it perfect the first time and nothing else is needed nor allowed. We pride ourselves on selling only the purest seasonal wildflower honey from the trees and flowers on our farm. Quantity is always limited and dependent upon weather, blooming season, and of course the mood of the bees.
The bees have started to prepare for winter and some of the smallest hives did not make it through the VERY hot dry part of the summer! We are not going to take their honey this Fall because of the extreme weather we had this summer. They will need it to make it through the winter, which we hope will be mild. We have been surrounded by large housing developments that have cur down most of the trees and reduced the bees forage areas. There has also been a lot of spraying for mosquitoes and such by folks who simply do not know how to protect the bees - or maybe do not care about them as much as we do. This means that only a few of our hives have remained viable, although they made good honey for us that is very very tasty! We have sold almost all the honey we got this year (and have started dipping into earlier year's stores as well). We hope the owners of the houses in the surrounding developments will show some compassionate judgment for the bees and not kill our remaining ladies with sprays and dusts. (Be sure and see our page on using pesticides well before spraying your plants ... especially in the Spring and Summer!)
This website contains information about us, our farm, our bees, and our honeys. If you have questions, want to purchase some of our honey, or just want to talk about honey bees contact us through our email on our "contact us" page.
