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Where You'll Find Vermont Honey
by Vermont Beekeepers

 
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Buy Vemont Honey

Honey Extraction
Let us help you get to your golden liquid quickly!

Bottling

Honeybee Swarm Removal

Mentoring & Speaking Engagements



Sunshine on the Ridge
Buzzing honeybees do Work
Sweetness Days Ahead
-V. Wilson

 

 

 

Honey Sales

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Our pure Vermont honey is bottled without going through a filtering process. This allows essential bee products such as pollen to remain so that you can reap the health benefits. We do not heat-treat our honey to delay crystallization. This would hinder the flavor and destroy beneficial enzymes. Therefore, if liquid honey crystallizes please know that this is a natural process. You can scoop the honey out and spread on toast, or stir in hot tea. If you prefer you can place the container in a warm bowl of water (not boiling) and repeat the process until your honey is back to liquid form. Our aim is to provide you with the freshest honey as if you were eating it straight from the comb.

Size and Pricing:

 
Plastic Bottling
 

1lb. (16oz.)

Skep squeeze bottle

$7.00

12oz.

Bear squeeze bottle

$6.25

2lb. (32oz.)

Skep squeeze bottle

$13.50

5lb. (80oz.)

Round plastic jar

$27.00

     
 
Glass Bottling
 
1lb. (16oz.) Skep jar $7.50

1lb. (16oz.)

Crystallized wide-mouth glass jar

$8.00

 
Comb Honey
 

12oz.

4" Comb Honey Square

Currently Out of Stock

$8.00

Send us an email with size and quantity, include your US mailing address, and we will send you the total including shipping. Or call (802) 453-6335.

To get an idea of shipping cost* in the US using USPS-
(we do not markup our shipping)

A 1lb. or 12oz. squeeze bottle can fit into a Priority Mail small flat rate box which cost $5.15.

A medium flat rate box holds 12 to 14 squeeze bottles and cost $10.85.

5lb jar of honey ships for $10.85 using the the medium flat rate box. (note--2, 5lb jars can fit into this box if you want to stock up).

A large flat rate box holds 20, 1lb squeeze bottles and cost $14.65.

*we will always check the post office office for current pricing before quoting you your total shipping. The above rates are only for estimating purposes. They were accurate as of Jan. 22, 2012.

Depending on the size of the order and always on glass jars, insurance will be added as part of the quote.

Payment methods: US bank check or US Money Order.


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Honey Extraction

Heavenly Honey Apiary in Monkton, VT (Addison county—just over the Chittenden county line) provides honey extraction services. If you're just getting started and don't want to invest hundreds of dollars for an extractor, we will uncap your frames using cold uncapping knives, and spin them out in a 20-frame extractor. The process is much quicker. You do not have to worry about getting your house all sticky, and finding storage space for the extraction equipment. Just bring your honey supers and pails, and let the fun begin.

Extraction to pail methods:

Choose to let your honey pass through a light strainer that still lets the essential pollen pieces pass through with your honey. Or you can let your honey flow directly from the extractor into your pail bypassing the sieve.

  • We keep wax cappings
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  • Cutomer supplies pail* to take their honey home in
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    * we recommend that you invest in a 5 gallon food-grade pail. Visit beekeeping suppliers such as Betterbee or Dadant to view their offerings. You do not need the pouring gate, but it sure comes in handy!

    We recommend a honey bucket such as this. Wide open mouth, holds about 20 medium frames, up to 55lbs or 5 gallons of honey!

    Rates

    Honey extraction rates are: $35 set up fee for 20 frames (shallow/small & medium)
    $1.25 per additional frame over 20 (medium or shallow)
    $2.50 per deep frame.

    Contact

    Phone (802) 453-6335
    To send email click here

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    Bottling

    We do not offering bottling services at this time.

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    Honeybee Swarm Removal

    Time permitting we are happy to collect honeybee swarms. Don't be alarmed when we ask you a bunch of qualifying questions to make sure that your swarm is really honeybees. If your swarm location is more than a couple of miles away, we may even have you email us a digital photo of the swarm to make sure that they are honeybees.

    You'd be surprised how many people think that a swarm of hornets or yellow jackets are honeybees. We do not remove anything but honeybees.

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    Mentoring & Speaking Engagements
     

    If you are new to beekeeping in Vermont and you need a local mentor the Vermont Beekeepers Association is a good place to start to find someone in your area.

    Scott and Valarie are in their fifth year of beekeeping. They graduated from being hobbyists, and started a sideline business because they love every aspect of beekeeping. They are experienced in apiary life from setting up your colony of bees (nuc or packaged bees), to inspecting the health of the hive, looking for varroa mites, and assessing how the queen is doing. They have experience with honeybee swarm removal, honey production, packaging, and marketing.

    Each year they attend as many beekeeping workshops and meetings as possible while they read everything that they can get their hands on. Scott is enrolled in the Master Beekeeper program through Cornell University. He is a "Certified Beekeeper" through the Vermont Beekeepers Association. Valarie has begun her training in Apitherapy where she is learning about the uses of produces from the hive for health, such as, bee venom therapy (BVT) or bee sting therapy, uses of propolis, bee pollen, and beeswax.

    Invite them to into your classroom, club, library or group.

    Please send an email to find out availability.

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    Honey Extraction Photos
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    ...buy pure, raw honey! From your friendly neighborhood beekeeper.

     

    Scott Wilson and Valarie Wilson providing honey extraction services to Vermont beekeepers

    Scott and Valarie getting ready to extract their 2009 harvest

    Valarie Wilson of Heanvely Honey Apiary uncapping Vermont honey

    Valarie uncapping a frame of honey

    Maxant 20 frame honey extractor used at Heavenly Honey Apiary

    20 frame honey extractor

    Heavenly Honey extraction services customer Bill Mares uncapping honey frame

    Some customers like to be a part of the action

    Heavenly Honey Apiary, honey extraction for customer Hannah

    First year beekeeper Hannah takes a turn at uncapping her honey frames.

    Extracted honey going through a sieve

    Some customers want their honey to go through a light sieve process to remove larger chunks of wax, honeybees etc. This process adds a considerable amount of time to the honey extraction process.

    Extracted honey going straight to bucket

    Other customers want their honey raw; cold-knife uncapped, extracted from the honeycomb via our centrifugal extractor where the honey then flows straight to the bucket for them to take home and bottle.

     

    We are proud to be members of the

    Vermont Beekeepers Association




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     Scott is a Certified Beekeeper
    through the Vermont Beekeepers Association,
    and serves on their board of directors.

    Valarie holds an officer position on the Vermont
    Beekeepers Association board of directors
    as the Membership Secretary.

     
                 

     

     

     

     

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