Our honey is harvested directly from hives we manage in residential backyards throughout the Philadelphia metropolitan area.

It means the honey is not heated or strained in ways that remove pollen, enzymes, and other natural compounds. It retains the full flavor and character of the local forage your bees visited.

This is a claim we can’t honestly make and you should be skeptical of any local beekeeper who does. Because honeybees fly an average of two miles from their hives, a hive would need to sit at the center of at least 16 square miles of certified organic plants to guarantee organic forage. US beekeepers cannot legally market honey as organic for this reason. Honey sold at supermarkets labeled “organic” is almost always imported and held to far lower standards.

Supermarket honey is heated to very high temperatures to pasteurize it, then heavily filtered to remove all naturally occurring pollen and nutrients, leaving essentially just fructose and glucose. This processing keeps it unnaturally liquid for years. Additionally, imported honey is one of the most frequently adulterated agricultural products in the world, often diluted with cheaper syrups. Buying from a local beekeeper is the best way to know exactly what you’re getting.

No. Properly stored honey does not expire.

Keep it sealed and at room temperature. Unsealed honey can absorb moisture and ferment. Refrigeration is fine but will cause thickening and eventual crystallization.

No, it’s beginning to crystallize naturally. All raw honey does this over time. It’s a sign your honey hasn’t been overly processed.

Crystallized honey is completely safe to eat. To return it to liquid, place the jar in a warm water bath and keep the water below 110°F to preserve its raw properties. Do not microwave it. This can pasteurize the honey and, if the jar is plastic, may introduce unwanted compounds.

Air bubbles introduced during bottling rise to the surface as the honey settles, forming a white film. It’s harmless. You can ignore it or scrape it off.

Comb honey is honey that is harvested and sold still inside the beeswax comb the bees built it in, completely unprocessed, exactly as it came from the hive. Both the honey and the wax are edible. It can be eaten as-is, spread on bread with the comb, or the honey can be pressed out. It’s considered by many to be the purest form of honey available.

Creamed honey is raw honey that has gone through a controlled crystallization, resulting in a smooth, spreadable texture rather than a liquid or coarsely crystallized one. It contains no cream or dairy. The name refers to the texture. The process involves seeding liquid honey with finely crystallized honey and allowing it to set slowly at cool temperatures. It’s still raw, still unfiltered, and retains all the same properties as liquid raw honey.

Infused honey is made by combining real ingredients like herbs, peppers, fruit, and botanicals directly with raw honey and allowing the flavors to develop naturally over time. The result reflects the actual character of those ingredients. Flavored honey, by contrast, typically uses artificial or synthetic flavor compounds added to processed honey. Our flavor-infused honeys use real ingredients only, with no artificial additives or flavoring agents.

Because our honey comes from real bees foraging real flowers in real backyards, no two batches are identical. Color, clarity, and subtle flavor notes vary by season, bloom cycle, and which yard the bees were working. A late summer harvest will often run darker and more robust than a spring one. This is exactly what you’d expect from a genuinely local, unprocessed product, and it’s what supermarket honey eliminates through blending and heat processing. Our honey reflects where and when it was made. If your jar looks a little different from the last one, that’s the point.

No. Honey should never be fed to children under one year of age. It can contain spores of Clostridium botulinum, which can cause infant botulism, a rare but serious illness. After the first year, the digestive and immune systems are developed enough to handle it safely.

This is a popular belief, but the science doesn’t support it. Seasonal allergies are typically triggered by wind-pollinated plants like ragweed, grasses, and coniferous trees whose pollen rarely ends up in honey. Honeybees collect pollen from insect-pollinated flowers, which are a different category entirely. Additionally, building immune tolerance requires carefully controlled exposure through proven immunotherapy protocols, not dietary consumption. We’d rather give you an honest answer than sell you on a claim we can’t stand behind. Local raw honey is delicious and has genuine qualities worth appreciating; allergy relief isn’t one of them.