As I’ve said before, I’m pretty sure this is true:
“Good honey is cheaper to buy than to make yourself.”
We started beekeeping because we wanted to eat delicious honey!
But I’ve come to realize, more deeply than ever, that this was only the beginning of our pursuit of quality, not the end of it.
Every harvest brings honey that is different in flavor, body, color, and aroma.
That’s why we want to offer our honey as a tasting set, so you can fully enjoy the differences between them.
And we want to preserve those flavors as much as possible.
On harvest day, we head to the apiary first thing in the morning.
After paying our respects to the bees and coming to an arrangement with them, they kindly let us take away their honey supers—the special hive boxes where they store their honey.
We bring them straight to our extraction facility, where we carefully uncap each frame by hand, one at a time, and extract the honey.
We finish all the extraction work that same day.
Then, to preserve the honey’s flavor as much as possible, we bottle it within a week.
Genuine, pure, raw, and unheated.
Straight from the hive to your table.
Every step takes place in a clean facility, right in front of BeeCampers and our customers.
We strive for the highest possible quality, without compromise.
But all of this is only the very last stage of the process.
It’s a bit like harvesting rice, threshing it, milling it, and bagging it. Those are just the final steps—the culmination of all the work that came before, over many months.
So, for those of you who have visited BeeCamp, seen how we care for our bees throughout the year, and witnessed the honey extraction and bottling process, I think you’ll understand why we say:
“Good honey is cheaper to buy than to make yourself.”
If you’re thinking about taking up beekeeping because you want to enjoy delicious honey of your own, I hope you’ll take this as a friendly word of advice!
And if you’re thinking, “No, no! The whole process of beekeeping looks like so much fun!”—and, to be fair, we really do enjoy it—why not visit a beekeeper near you and offer to help out for a week or so?
We’d love to welcome you to BeeCamp, too.
We look forward to seeing you!