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Our honey is sold out for the year.  More will be available when we open next year.

We have approximately 20 beehives at our orchards.   These honeybees are necessary for pollination of the apples trees.   In addition to our own hives,  we rent additional bees for pollination during apple bloom. 

Our honey is pure raw honey.  This means that it has not been pasteurized and does not have any additives.  Many doctors recommend locally grown honey for people suffering with allergies to pollens.  It is believed that eating honey made from local pollen is like getting an allergy shot. 

We hope you will give our honey a try.  Here is one of our favorite honey recipes from the Honey Hill Orchard Cookbook.*  We hope you enjoy it.



HONEY CRUNCH ICE CREAM BARS

4 c. crisp rice cereal
1/2 c. peanut butter
1/2 c. honey
1 pint vanilla ice cream, softened
                                                   
Stir together cereal, peanut butter and honey.  Pat into bottom of 9x13 inch baking pan.  Freeze until firm.  Remove pan from freezer.  Cut cereal mixture in half crosswise.  Spread softened ice cream on one half of cereal mixture.  Please other half of cereal mixture on ice cream layer.  Freeze until firm.  Cut into bars.

*The Honey Hill Orchard Cookbook is available in our Apple Barn.


Fun Facts


A  honey bee visits 50 to 100 flowers in each collection trip.

A honey bee has 5 eyes.

Napoleon chose the honey bee as a symbol of his empire.



Busy bees making honey in
one
of our hives.