In May of 2011 we got our first two hives of Italian bees. 

Honey is available for purchase at Etsy.com. My shop name at Etsy is loislobo

Our honey is also available at the Essex County Museum in Tappahannock, Virginia

Honey Frame - this is a honey comb from inside a beehive ready for extraction

 Uncapping honey comb with a heated knife

All our honey is raw, unfiltered and not treated with heat or chemicals!

Honey Extractor 

The uncapped honey frame is placed in an extractor which looks like a large salad spinner. Once the handle is turned, honey "flies" off the comb, onto the sides of the extractor and collects at the bottom.



Nine Years Later

The honey bees have survived, swarmed and stung us!

We did not harvest honey in the first year since the honey is used as food for the bees during the winter.

We harvested our first honey on July 4, 2012!

We split our hives and now have 12.

Our favorite quote from Sue Hubbell, author of 

A Country Year: "My bees cover a thousand square miles of land, which I do not own, in their foraging flights, flying from flower to flower for which I pay no rent, stealing nectar but pollinating plants in return. It is an unruly, benign kind of agriculture, and making a living by it has such a wild, anarchistic, raffish appeal that it unsuits me for any other, except possibly robbing banks."

Hard Honey Candy

Made from Honey and Sugar.  Nothing else added.

Available in the following flavors: plain, mango, and ginger

Our customers have left us feedback that our honey candy immediately eliminates symptoms of acid reflux.

It is also good for sore throats, nausea, morning sickness, hiccups and can be used as a honey/sugar cube for your beverages!

Honey is exposed in the frame once the beeswax capping is cut off