We make honey from two hives in Montclair, New Jersey. We never pressure-filter or heat our honey to process it, so you taste everything that’s good about honey including local pollen and a delicate aroma unlike any commercial honey. Sometimes this is called raw honey. We try to bottle two or three times a year. Each bottling is limited to a single extraction and has a unique flavour related to the hive, the season, the weather and a mix of flowers that will never come again.
We bottled our Spring 2011 harvest on father’s day. We made 72 bottles. This honey is light and distinctly floral. We bottled Summer 2011 on August 6th and made 36 bottles. Though this is still a light-colored honey, it’s got a distinct spicy aftertaste. We have some of both bottlings left.
Our bees are Carniolans and Carniolan hybrids–a gentle bee that’s a good honey producer and great for urban neighbourhoods. We use Integrated Pest Management to keep our bees healthy, so there are no hard chemicals in the hives.
Do you have honey for sale at this time?
Thank you
Hi Julie,
I’m sorry we’re all sold out, but the bees are hard at work right now making more. We’ll post here and send out to our email list when we have our Spring harvest.
Oliver
Please notify me when you haves your next batch of honey.
Thank you.
Philip
Will do!
Sold out! All our Spring 2011 honey is sold out, but we’re hoping for a good 2012 and will email everyone when we have more honey!
Well done Oliver and Derek, sounds like you’re doing a fabulous job. Hope I get over the pond to taste your Montclair honey sometime, will stick to my local Isleworth honey for the moment. Keep up the good work.
Hi Sallie-Anne! Thanks for visiting our site. Come visit our bees anytime! Wish I could bring some honey to England for you.
Hey, good news, our Spring 2011 bottling got a second place (I like to say “silver”) at the Sussex County Beekeepers Association 2011 Honey Show part of the Sussex County Farm and Horse Show / New Jersey State Fair!