We maintain and operate 100 hives at present. We increase each year to produce wildflower honey. wax, pollen and to provide bees for those needing apitherpy. We feel the honey produced in this area is the best to be had. It is not at all bitter and comes from local wild flowers some of those being sugar & red maple blossom, dandelion and apple and pin cherry in the spring to huckleberry and blackberry mid summer to goldenrod and aster in the fall. We bottle and sell only raw honey (honey that has never been heated)

Some facts about Bees & Honey with some brief explanation

Honey is hydroscopic (absorbs moisture), good for baking if you want you cake to stay moist, bad for those cookies you want to stay crisp.

Honey will never go bad if not diluted (Honey has been found in the pyramids of ancient Egypt) .

Honey is a wonderful wound dressing if raw honey is used. When the bee harvests the nectar from the blossom, enzymes are introduced to the fluid. When honey is applied to a wound, being hydroscopic, it absorbs moisture from the wound and surrounding skin. This dilutes the honey and the enzymes then produce hydrogen peroxide. This sterilizes the wound and promotes the healing process. Those dealing with hard to heal wounds such as sores caused by diabetes have used honey with excellent results surpassing the healing effects of some modern remedies.

A bee lives about 6 or 7 weeks when working in the summer.

A bee does not bite but stings.

All worker bees are females

The males, called drones, are produced at the queens choice.

The queen has the ability to lay fertile eggs (workers and female) or infertile eggs (droans and males)

Droans are kept around and fed for breeding only.

Come late fall, most, 95% of the droans are killed off so that the harvest (honey ) be reserved for the working colony.

Nurse bees are young females that tend to the queen, feed her and nurture her and the brood, and tend to hive necessities.

Forage bees are the older nurse bees and are the field workers. These are the bees that that protect the hive and are the ones willing to sacrifice their life in stinging you or a preditor.

Helping my friend Tom with a severly conjested hive.

Teaching children at the East Haven School all about bees.

More to come

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