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Our neighborhood honeys are from backyards in the greater Seattle area, all labeled by the neighborhood the hives were in, so you know exactly where the honey is from. Our farm and forestry honeys are sold with the nearest landmark!

Our Pure Puget Sound honeys, Honey Cocoa, and Nordic Spice Creamed Honey are made using honey from other local beekeepers. The Pure Puget Sound honeys list the county where the bees were foraging when the honey was produced.

Our Honey Cocoa and Nordic Spice Creamed Honey are made using honey from bees located in Western Washington.

There is no organic certification process for honey in the United States, and therefore it is illegal to call honey that was produced in the United States "organic"! If you see honey labeled "organic" it's either from another country or mislabeled.

That said, our honey is all raw, unfiltered, and all the things you want out of sustainable local honey (and yes, we follow general organic practices in our beekeeping, though those are not officially defined in the United States).

We always have free local pickup at our workshop in Shoreline, WA, and we ship all over the US (free shipping on orders over $50)! From June-October you can find us at the Shoreline and Magnolia Farmers Markets.

You can also find us in some local stores. You can find our stockists list here.

You may not know this, but half of these terms don't actually have an official definition (and the definition of one is vague)! Because transparency is important to us, here is how we define these:

• Pure (this is the one that is legally defined): Our honey is pure. It has not been adulterated or cut with sugar, corn syrup, or any other product. If we've added anything at all to the honey (such as in our Honey Cocoa), we'll tell you!
• Raw: Honey is generally considered to be raw and for the enzymes and flavors to be intact as long as the temperature of the honey is kept below 120 degrees. That feels high to us, so we try to bottle our honey at the same temperature the bees keep it at: 95 degrees Fahrenheit (yes, the bees keep the hive at a nice toasty 95 degrees). If honey is crystalized, we decrystalize it at 105 degrees, which is the lowest temperature that honey will reliably decrystalize at.
• Unfiltered: Our honey is strained to remove chunks of beeswax and other hive debris that most people don't want in their honey. All of the good stuff is still there. Some jars may have a very small amount of foam and/or sand-like wax and propolis particles on top. It's perfectly safe to eat.
• Local: Local is sort of defined, but not well, and the definition changes drastically from state to state. To us, local means that the honey is from where we say it's from. If it's from the Fremont Neighborhood in Seattle, then ALL of the honey is from hives in Seattle's Fremont Neighborhood. If it's from a specific county, then ALL of the honey is from that county. We don't play games with local.