Honey from my latest honey harvest is all gone. I only harvest honey when the bees tell me it is fully processed and it is always up to the bees and weather as to exactly when that might happen. My honey availability is always kept current on this website, so check back often. Also, please note that I do not get commercial quantities of honey, so I usually soon run out of available honey until the bees allow me to do another harvest.
The self-serve “Honey Table” is CLOSED… When another honey harvest is done you can click HERE to see how you can easily pick up a bottle at YOUR convenience.
Honey from the latest Honey Harvest is available.
The honey is harvested directly from hive to bottle and is absolutely delicious. If you want the real and natural honey and not the imported store bought stuff, try my local wildflower honey. Unlike many commercial and backyard beekeeping operations, my quality over quantity approach means this honey is not harvested until the bees have finished their honey processing (AKA “capped” honey) which is very important for obtaining the very best honey the bees can make.
Honey from my latest honey harvest is available….
| Quantity | Description |
Price each | Available |
| 1 | One pound (16oz) plastic squeeze bottle. These food grade bottles have a top with a rubber diaphragm which makes for a leak-free cap that instantly seals after every squeeze, making for precise dispensing without wasting a drop. |
$10 | NO HONEY AVAILABLE!! |
The honey bottle shown to the right is a one-pound bottle of my hives’ pure local raw honey, taken directly from the hive to the bottle. It contains all the pollen, nutrients, antioxidants, and antibacterial properties of local raw honey. It is never heated and is always bottled within minutes of extraction from the hive. It simply doesn’t get any fresher or more natural than this.
I use no chemicals in or around my apiary and extract only capped honey from the hives (important, because uncapped honey in a hive has not been fully processed by the bees). I then take multiple refractometer readings to make sure the honey is at or below the maximum moisture content of 18.5% for quality honey. By using precise methods to extract and bottle the NaplesBees honey, I am able to protect the natural and healthy enzymes present only in unheated raw honey.
Click here for a short video explaining why local raw honey has health benefits you won’t find in store-bought honey.
The rich amber color of my honey varies from lighter to darker depending on the source of the nectar, which reflects the flora naturally available to the bees during each season.
Did you know? Unlike many commercial and backyard beekeepers, I am careful to harvest only CAPPED honey from my hives. Many beekeepers harvest capped and uncapped honey all in one go because it is easier and quicker. Uncapped honey is not finished processing by the bees, but it lets the beekeeper get more “honey” volume, and most people have no idea what’s going on. Uncapped honey is not fully cured and not sealed with a wax cap by the bees, and therefore it does not have all the sweetness and goodness of fully processed capped honey. The bees know what they are doing, and a good beekeeper will pay attention to that.
In my small apiary, I focus on quality, not quantity, because this is backyard beekeeping for passion, not profit! When buying local raw honey, always ask the beekeeper whether the honey comes only from the hive’s capped honey cells and doesn’t include a significant amount of uncapped honey.
One note beyond wording: claims like “all the health benefits” and “all the sweetness and goodness” are strong, and some jurisdictions restrict health claims on food labels and marketing. You may want to soften them (for example, “many of the natural benefits”) if this is for a website or product label.
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Our honey bottle front label was created with artistic license by the long time married couple responsible for starting this hobby beekeeping adventure years ago. Although there may be a resemblance to the famous farmer and his daughter, rest assured, these young-at-heart married faces are the ones behind this beekeeping endeavor. The Depression-era understanding of American Gothic extolled the original farmer and his daughter as steadfast embodiments of American virtue and the pioneer spirit: “American democracy was built upon the labors of men and women of stout hearts and firm jaws, such people as shown.” Our honey bottle back label contains all the information needed to meet the Florida state requirements for selling honey. |
Benefits of Local Raw Honey:
The best, most health giving, beneficial, honey is raw honey. This is unheated, unprocessed, unfiltered, unstrained honey which has all of the enzymes, vitamins, minerals, pollen, and propolis that the bees created it with. It tends to be cloudy, and you can see pollen and bits of propolis and comb floating around in it.
Refined honey has been heated and strained, which destroys all of the beneficial enzymes, removes the nutrition, and essentially leaves the honey nothing more than honey flavored sugar with none of the health benefits that people take honey for to begin with. The reason for the heating and destroying of the health benefits is simply to make the honey look appealing. refined honey is crystal clear with nothing floating in it. This is thought to be more appealing to consumers and believed to sell better because of its visual appeal, though it is closer to being toxic than healthful in this refined form…. above wording is a comment from “Glenn“
The general consensus is that raw honey straight from the hive, unlike grocery store processed commercial honey, is the best. The web is full of articles relating to the many health benefits of such raw honey……here are a few links….
Watch here a short video on how bees make that honey.
Bee Gold — Honey as a SuperFood
Think that honey you buy at the supermarket is the real stuff? Leave it to the Chinese as millions of pounds of imported honey may not be what you think it is. Netflix has an informative documentary series called “Rotten” and the first episode is all about honey and some of the shady things that go on in the commercial end of beekeeping.
Honey fraud is rampant in the United States because of what can go on in the commercial honey industry.
If you think all honey is the same, then you are wrong about what the Chinese and others are up to regarding importing honey in to the United States!
If you care about what kind of honey you are eating, always seek out LOCAL area honey. Most store bought honey will be adulterated in some way and many contain Chinese imported honey, probably the absolute worst honey you can consume:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gafNOtcShyI
This is a global problem in the commercial honey industry!!
Another general summary is written by the clinical nutritionist, Dr. Axe, on his site Food is Medicine .
The following is an excerpt from another very interesting article, “Things You Didn’t Know About Honey“. Read the whole article and comments for a great revue of all aspects of natural raw unprocessed honey:
Things You Didn’t Know About Honey
As far as natural sweeteners go, honey does have a place. The main thing to remember when it comes to honey is that not all honey is created equal. The antibacterial activity in some honeys is 100 times more potent than in others, while processed refined honey will lack many of these beneficial properties altogether. Your average domestic “Grade A” type honey found in the grocery store is likely highly processed. It’s also been found that more than 75 percent of the honey on American supermarket shelves may be ultra-processed—to the point that all inherent medicinal properties are completely gone—and then smuggled into the country by the barrel drum. Nearly all of this “fake” honey is made in China. Some of these brokers will even create bogus country of origin papers. All 60 jars of “honey” tested by Food Safety News (FSN) came back negative for pollen, which is a clear sign of ultra-processing.15 According to FSN:
“The removal of these microscopic particles from deep within a flower would make the nectar flunk the quality standards set by most of the world’s food safety agencies. The food safety divisions of the World Health Organization, the European Commission and dozens of others have also ruled that without pollen, there is no way to determine whether the honey came from legitimate and safe sources.”
In their investigation, FSN discovered the following:
- 76 percent of honey samples bought at grocery stores (such as TOP Food, Safeway, QFC, Kroger, Harris Teeter, etc.) were absent of pollen
- 77 percent of the honey from big box stores (like Costco, Sam’s Club, Walmart, and Target) were absent of pollen
- 100 percent of the honey sampled from drug stores (like Walgreens, Rite-Aid, and CVS Pharmacy) were absent of pollen
The good news is all of the samples from farmers markets, co-ops, and natural stores like Trader Joe’s had the full, proper compliment of pollen, as did organic brands from common grocery stores. When choosing honey, be sure it is raw, unfiltered, and 100% pure, from a trusted source.