Sweetacre Apiaries Pure Unpasteurized Wildflower Honey
People often ask us what kind of honey we have, and we're usually quick to respond "THE BEST!" Roughly one-half of our bee-yards (apiaries) are located on certified organic farms. We are always amazed at how different our honey tastes compared to the honey that comes out of the North Okanagan and the Thompson.
A single bee-hive has the ability to forage in and around 2000 acres of land. Chiefly our main flow will consist of white sweet clover, alsike clover, and/ or alfalfa. It is all these minor nectar sources which give our honey its wonderful flavour. These are different every year and the bees never record on their time cards what flowers they grace. We've seen honey bees during the main honey flow on black locust trees, wild mustard, dogbane, snowberry, salmon berry, burdock, horehound, sunflowers, fireweed, many thistles and cucurbits.
During the extracting process our honey is never heated above the temperature than that in the beehive itself. We let gravity do its job and allow the honey to naturally separate from the wax cappings. Before the honey goes into the bottling tank we are careful to drain it through a cheesecloth to ensure that honey and only honey ends up in the jars. Creamed Honey is also available. Check out our selling locations under the Honey- where to buy page. As well, we always have honey for sale right from our farm. We simply ask that you contact us ahead of time so that someone will be here to meet you.
A single bee-hive has the ability to forage in and around 2000 acres of land. Chiefly our main flow will consist of white sweet clover, alsike clover, and/ or alfalfa. It is all these minor nectar sources which give our honey its wonderful flavour. These are different every year and the bees never record on their time cards what flowers they grace. We've seen honey bees during the main honey flow on black locust trees, wild mustard, dogbane, snowberry, salmon berry, burdock, horehound, sunflowers, fireweed, many thistles and cucurbits.
During the extracting process our honey is never heated above the temperature than that in the beehive itself. We let gravity do its job and allow the honey to naturally separate from the wax cappings. Before the honey goes into the bottling tank we are careful to drain it through a cheesecloth to ensure that honey and only honey ends up in the jars. Creamed Honey is also available. Check out our selling locations under the Honey- where to buy page. As well, we always have honey for sale right from our farm. We simply ask that you contact us ahead of time so that someone will be here to meet you.
