The Foraging Bee · Princeton & Delta, BC
This year’s honey has found its homes — jars, refills, event honey and honey gift boxes are all sold out. The bees keep their winter stores, and we’re looking ahead to 2027.
Same price as the honey
There’s no separate pre-order for 2027. Adopting a hive reserves your honey at the price of the jars alone — and your adoption supports natural 4H beekeeping, native pollinators and youth bee lessons.
For your family
Name a hive, visit with Mark and follow the bees through the season. One family experience, three honey shares: $200 · $250 · $350. Limited annual places.
Explore Adopt-a-HiveRaw & natural
Real raw honey crystallizes. It is one of the surest signs your honey was never heated, never fine-filtered and never over-handled. Crystals are not spoilage — honey keeps for years, crystallized or not.
Honey is a natural sugar solution, and glucose naturally forms crystals over time. Cool storage speeds it up. Liquid honey that never crystallizes has usually been heated or finely filtered — the very handling raw honey avoids.
Mark's honey passes through a strainer exactly once and is never heated. That keeps the full goodness in the jar — the natural pollen, enzymes, aroma and flavour that fine filtering and heat would strip away.
You may find small flecks of beeswax, a gentle wax swirl, or a pale white rim at the top of the jar. Those are tiny particles of comb wax, pollen and fine air bubbles rising naturally — proof the honey was left alone. All of it is natural and good to eat.
Crystallized honey is a gift in the kitchen: it spreads like butter, never drips off the spoon, and keeps every bit of its character. Stir the white rim back in or spread it on toast — nothing needs fixing.
