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Stony Hill honey
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The bees were working hard this season to bring you sweet, delicious, local honey.
Our beekeeper, Brandt, cared for the hives. He attended classes to learn all about caring for honeybees, collecting the honey and bottling it.
We maintain seven hives of honeybees. Honeybees are essential for pollinating all of our fruit and vegetable crops, from apples in the spring to zucchini, tomatoes and pumpkins in the summer. As an added bonus, we collect honey twice a year, once in late June and again in late August.
Honeybees need to visit more than 100 flowers to collect enough nectar. They bring the nectar back to the hive, where worker bees convert the nectar into honey. Honey is a simple sugar, which means that it’s more digestible for bees (and for us), and it’s less likely to be attacked by bacteria.
After some of the water has evaporated from the honey, the bees cap off the honeycomb cell with some wax.
When it’s time to collect the honey, we gather boxes from the hive. Each box holds 10 frames, and each box holds about 60 pounds of honey.
The first step is to separate the honey from the frames. The frames are loaded into the separator and spun at high speeds. After the honey is separated, it’s moved to another tank, where it’s pasteurized and then bottled.
Don’t worry about the bees—we leave plenty of honey in the hive for the bees to eat throughout the winter. They have special, larger boxes than the ones that we collect. Those boxes contain honey only for the bees’ consumption.
Our Stony Hill honey has been flying off the shelves. We have a limited quantity, so stop by soon!  
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