Honey

Honey! Honey! Honey!

In Wisconsin, honey processing occurs once a year, typically in late summer/ early fall. We tend to pull our honey to process before the goldenrod blooms, as that is one of the last flowers for the bees to get pollen and nectar from and which they use to put honey in their hives for food storage through winter and into early spring. When we take honey, we put the hives in a warm room (usually 80 degrees or higher) with a dehumidifier to help pull moisture out of uncapped cells. Honey shouldn't be bottled unless the humidity is less than 17%, the reason is concern for botulism. We test the frames with a refractometer. Assuming the humidity is less than 17%, we then put the frames through a cap comb cutter ( to cut the comb so the honey then comes out of the extractor). Next we place the frames in an extractor and this spins the honey out of the frames into the spinner. Once this is done, we empty the spinner and put the honey through 3 different filters and then into the bottler, which serves as a fourth filter. Most people only filter through 2 filters but we find our process gives us a nicer product. The bottler has a warm outer liner bath that keeps the honey warms and allows the honey to pour out smoothly. After all of this we remove the honey and place into bottles and cap it with a sealed cap. Finally we put our label on it and it is ready for sale.

Our honey is, in a word, delicious!

We have several options to choose from when ordering honey. If you are interested in ordering some honey, please complete our order form.