Honey, Bee Pollen & Beeswax

 

Wildflower Honey:

$6.00 per pound (strained once, retaining pollen) SOLD OUT. Please check back in June 2009.

Honey Bee Pollen:

From local hives. 2 oz packet for $5.00 each. SOLD OUT.

Beeswax: $8.00 for one pound slab (from cappings extracted using a solar extractor) SOLD OUT. 

Consult health guides for health benefits of honey with pollen and pollen. Inconvenience is that honey with pollen may crystalize sooner than pollen-free, but you can warm the honey to melt the crystals without loosing quality.

Beekeeper and herbalist, Paul Jamerson, is advising me on how to maintain the bee hives here at Pampatike using "organic" methods. Paul uses only natural products (such as wintergreen oil, garden mint, and garlic) to repel pests that can damage or destroy the bee hives. The queen breeding is natural, usually by a mate 2 miles away, not by artifical insemination. No pesticides are used in the hives or on Pampatike Organic Farm. "Bee Go" is not used to make bees leave the honey supers before extraction (Bee Go is a chemical repellent used by many commercial apiarists). We place a "Bee Escape" board below the bottom honey super for several days before honey extraction -- the bees can leave the honey super but cannot get back in until the escape is removed. Honey is cold processed. Beeswax is extracted using a solar extractor. 

If you have any questions about the bees or their products, please e-mail: 

Carroll Curtis

Pamptike Organic Farm

King William, Virginia 23086 USA

http://www.pampatike.com

cncurtis@crosslink.net