Clinton Honey is a small, woman-owned, honeybee farm, located just outside the Clinton village. We nurture our bees using all-organic practices. We also raise honeybees at Kingfisher Farm, an organic CSA fruit and veggie farm in Sauquoit, NY. Although bees forage where they will (up to 2 miles), we never use non-organic chemicals on the grounds that they call home.
The honey in each of our jars looks and tastes a little different. It all depends where our bees source their nectar. Apple, peach, or plum trees? Clover, joe pye, thistle, sunflower, anise hyssop, golden rod? Sometimes our honey tastes minty"... that's from a Linden tree blossom. Spring honey tends to be light and sweet. Cooler Fall air brings a darker and more complex taste. Did you know it takes over 2 million flowers to produce 1 pound of honey? And a single honeybee can pollinate 5,000 flowers in a day!
Our honey "supers" are pulled by hand and each box weighs 35 to 65 pounds (it's not easy work but that's what my husband is good for lol). Our honey is "raw" meaning hive to jar, with no processing, the way nature intended. In time, our honey will naturally crystallize... this means it's raw and pure, not that it's gone bad. To return to liquid, place the jar in a warm bath. Crystallized honey quickly "melts" in coffee or tea and is easy to spoon out. Or eat "as is" in its less-messy solid state .
We bottle our honey in glass jars because we try not to use plastic. Not only are microplastics bad for us but we just don't like the taste of plastic-stored honey. And we'd love to re-use your clean returned jar (please just ask)... it keeps it out of the landfill and it keeps our prices down.
We hope you enjoy our honey as much as we enjoy making it and thank you for supporting our bees!
