All orders ship Priority through USPS. I try to ship out every order within 3 business days of your order (pls keep in mind I am one person). Here’s a map of how long it takes to get from me to you once it’s in USPS’s hands:

https://www.usps.com/priority-mail/map/

(put 04951 as the ZIP code)

Should be no longer than 3 business days though.

Email me! This isn’t common but mailing glass jars full of liquid via USPS is not foolproof. Send me a picture of the broken jar in the package and I’ll send you out a new one right away! Usually USPS will pay for the broken package.

Nope! Honey actually can’t go bad - it has incredible anti-microbial properties that prevent spoiling. All that’s happening is ~crystallization~ aka the liquid sugars linking up into solid sugar crystals. You can use it as is, or gently warm the honey jar in a pot of water (no hotter than 130 degrees) for a while until it liquifies again.

Nope! Honey doesn’t ever spoil, so all refrigeration will do is make your honey hard as a rock.

Nope! The bees store the honey in the combs, I take the combs out of the hive, scrape the wax caps off each frame, put the frames in a spinning extractor that flings all the honey out, I run the honey through a loose filter to get any pieces of comb out, and then pour the honey straight into the bottles.

Technically honey can’t be certified organic in the state of Maine. Because there is no way to control where they get nectar from, there is no way to know that every drop of nectar is from an organic source. That being said, the vast majority of plants that my bees draw nectar from are wildflowers, so no chemicals there.

I also never use synthetic chemicals on the bees, only necessary mite treatments with organic compounds.

Pasteurization and authenticity! Big brand honey is commonly cut with corn syrups to sell a cheaper product. Also, almost all big brand honey is pasteurized to prevent crystallizing. This process destroys the pollen proteins and enzymes in the honey, making it less beneficial to your body and less tasty as well. In addition to that - all honey tastes different based on where in the world the bees are and what flowers were blooming when the honey was harvested.

Not at all! The bees are able to pack up and leave their hives at any time they want during the warm seasons. That does happen from time to time but mostly they stay. Why? Because they have a human caretaker that provides them a home, food, and medicine - constant care that they wouldn’t get on their own. They all end the year with more than enough honey in their hives to last through the winter, so they don’t mind if I take the extra off the top.

It’s been shown that repeated consumption of raw honey produced locally to where you live can reduce allergy symptoms. This is due to the small amounts of pollen present in raw honey - aka exposure therapy. If you don’t live around where I live though, it probably won’t do that much for your allergies, sorry!

Yeah and it HURTS. They’re usually very gentle and very sweet, but they just get grumpy sometimes, as do we all.

Right now I’m too small for that. I can sell you a bunch of jars at once but I can’t do 5 gallon containers or drums. I can refer you to some other beekeepers for that though.

Mhmmmmmm let’s talk! I love a barter.