Local honey
buy
it right on our farm!
Local Honey made right here in Lanark, Ontario.
Our current inventory of honey comes from this summers local flowers.
*We will have this years honey ready once nature comes to bloom.
$5.75 for 500g
$10.50 for 1kg
Come in to our store (right on our farm) to pickup your local honey!
How Honey is made (from the flower to the Bee hive...)
Honeybees use nectar to make honey. Nectar is almost 80% water with some complex
sugars. In fact, if you have ever pulled a honeysuckle blossom out of its stem,
nectar is the clear liquid that drops from the end of the blossom. In North
America, bees get nectar from flowers like clovers, dandelions, berry bushes and
fruit tree blossoms. They use their long, tubelike tongues like straws to suck
the nectar out of the flowers and they store it in their "honey stomachs". Bees
actually have two stomachs, their honey stomach which they use like a nectar
backpack and their regular stomach. The honey stomach holds almost 70 mg of
nectar and when full, it weighs almost as much as the bee does. Honeybees must
visit between 100 and 1500 flowers in order to fill their honeystomachs.
The honeybees return to the hive and pass the nectar onto other worker bees.
These bees suck the nectar from the honeybee's stomach through their mouths.
These "house bees" "chew" the nectar for about half an hour. During this time,
enzymes are breaking the complex sugars in the nectar into simple sugars so that
it is both more digestible for the bees and less likely to be attacked by
bacteria while it is stored within the hive. The bees then spread the nectar
throughout the honeycombs where water evaporates from it, making it a thicker
syrup. The bees make the nectar dry even faster by fanning it with their wings.
Once the honey is gooey enough, the bees seal off the cell of the honeycomb with
a plug of wax. The honey is stored until it is eaten. In one year, a colony of
bees eats between 120 and 200 pounds of honey.
Our Sponsors...