Wild Honey vs. Organic Honey

What’s the difference

Q: Why choose or not choose “organic” honey?

A: Honey that is certified as “organic” may or may not be truly organic.

Here’s why:

Since honeybees can fly a 3-mile radius from their hive to collect nectars or pollens, the guarantee that the organic honey you have strategically purchased may not be exactly what you thought it was. An organic certification is purchased. Yes, it must be “purchased” after completing/passing tests and having the production location “certified.” This means that the location has passed or exceeded requirements & standards that are required to be classified as organic.  

However, if a colony of honeybees located in field “A” is certified “organic,” but the honeybees from that hive are foraging 3 miles away in a cultivated field of cucumbers or melons for nectar and pollens, that honey is NOT coming from field “A” and MAY NOT BE ORGANIC AFTER ALL. Not every drop of honey is tested, so there are margins for errors. The guarantee that the organic honey you have purposely purchased may or may not be truly 100% organic honey.

As beekeepers for over 30 years, we believe eating wild, raw honey is much better, more affordable, more readily available, and, most importantly, a more honest process!

Wild honey is a honey produced by bees visiting flowers from native, wild-grown, undomesticated, uncultivated blooms. This is NOT nectar that comes from “crops,” farmed, or propagated floras. As wild honey producers, our guarantee to our customers is…Native or Nothing! We will only sell the best wild honey from wild, native floras… Period!

Examples of Wild Honey:  

Wildflower, tallow, basswood, tupelo, clover, fireweed, huajilla (guajillo), pine, sourwood, wild sage

Examples of Honey from Crops:

Alfalfa, avocado, buckwheat, citrus, canola, cotton, soybean, sunflower

Honey produced from crops may have residues of glyphosate herbicides (round-up), fertilizers, and/or pesticides. Whereas, wild honeys are much less likely to have residues of chemicals.

Visit our Honey Store today for some of the world’s best wild honey. You won’t be disappointed!