Beautifully pure, unpasteurized honey straight from the beeyard.1000 Islands Honey is local honey directly from our beeyard. Our honey is the highest grade of raw, unpasteurized wildflower honey that the honey bees produce from the many varieties of wildflowers we have in the Thousand Islands area.
Although the bees collect pollen from a wide variety of sources, in late Fall when goldenrod is in bloom, the bees fill up the honey supers with a darker and stronger tasting honey (our personal favourite), which both tastes amazing and also is excellent for people who suffer from seasonal allergies.
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Honey is one of nature's greatest gifts. We always suggest to customers to taste a teaspoon of our raw honey on it's own. See what happens on your tongue. It's like nothing else in the world. Taste the exquisite work of thousands of honeybees, visiting the millions of flowers it took to produce your perfect jar of honey.
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HOW FAR DO BEES FLY?One bee would need to fly about 90,000 miles (3 times around the globe) to produce a pound of honey.
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HOW MANY FLOWERS?A honey bee will typically visit 50 to 100 flowers during a single honey collection flight.
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HOW MUCH HONEY?The average honey bee will produce only 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey in its entire lifetime.
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HONEY BEE FACTSMale bees have no stingers, and their only role in the hive is to mate with queens from other colonies.
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Behind the scenes at 1000 Islands Local HoneyWe started beekeeping in 2010 and it's been a journey of discovery and hard work (although the honey bees do the heavy lifting). Learn more about beekeeping and see some pictures from the apiary.
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