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Ours is a small honey producing farm headquartered in Powhatan County, Virginia. Our honey is produced by our bees in our apiaries worked by ourselves. We have apiaries in Powhatan, Amelia, and Cumberland Counties in Central Virginia. The flora throughout the foraging area of our honey bees consist of Tulip Popular, Black Locust, Wild Rose, Blackberry, and numerous other trees and wild flowers. We are a certified Virginia Finest Producer of honey, which means we maintain the standards established by the Virginia Department of Agriculture and are thus allowed to use their logo you see below on our honey products. Our "Honey House" as we call it, or our extracting and bottling facility is inspected by the Virginia Department of Consumer Services. With the oversite of these two state agencies, you can be assured you are getting the very best quality honey offered anywhere.
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2008 Crop to Date
We survived the winter with few bee loses. Unfortunately, due to the unseasonably cool nights early on, we were not able to increase our hive count this year as much as planned. So far this has been an exceptional year. Good Black Locust bloom, followed by Wild Roses, and Blackberry. The bloom period lasted considerable longer than normal and we have a quality honey on hand for sale. The honey this season is golden color, and very mild. Outlook for the remainder of the year is unknown. With adaquate rainfall the remainder of the season should enable the bees to produce an abundance of honey. We will harvest the final crop for this year around September 15th.
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