Hunny FarmShop

Journal

Notes from the hives, the kitchen, and the road between them.

Kitchen notes · September 11, 2026 · 4 min

Honey and cheese: which honey goes with which cheese

Sweet against salt is the oldest trick on a cheese board. A pairing guide for four honeys and the cheeses that bring out the best in each.

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A wooden board with wedges of cheese, a small dish of honey with a dipper, sliced pears and walnuts, in warm evening light.

Good to know · September 10, 2026 · 5 min

How to read a honey label: what "pure," "raw," "Grade A" and "organic" really mean

Most of the words on a honey jar are either meaningless or mean something other than what you'd think. A short decoder, and the two things worth looking for.

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Several honey jars of different shapes lined up on a shop shelf, their plain labels turned toward the viewer, drawn in fine ink with warm washes.

Good to know · September 9, 2026 · 5 min

Does local honey help with allergies? What the evidence actually says

It's the most repeated claim about honey. We sell local honey, so we'd love it to be true. Here's an honest look at the theory, the studies, and what honey does do.

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A roadside in late summer with tall ragweed and goldenrod in the foreground, a hive in a clover field beyond, hazy warm light.

Good to know · September 8, 2026 · 4 min

Why babies under one should never have honey, raw or not

It's not about germs in the jar, and it's not about raw versus pasteurized. It's about spores, and a baby's gut. What every parent should know, in plain words.

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A high kitchen shelf with jars of honey placed well out of reach, a child's wooden chair and a small bowl of fruit below, soft morning light.

Kitchen notes · September 7, 2026 · 5 min

How to bake with honey instead of sugar (the four adjustments that matter)

Honey is sweeter, wetter and more acidic than sugar, and it browns faster. Get those four things right and you can swap it into almost anything.

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A kitchen counter with a mixing bowl, a measuring cup of honey, eggs, flour on a board and a loaf cooling on a rack, warm side light.

From the hives · September 6, 2026 · 4 min

Two million flowers: what it takes to make one pound of honey

The jar on your counter is the work of tens of thousands of bees over a few weeks of summer. A look at the arithmetic of a pound of honey.

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A wide clover field at golden hour with a single hive in the foreground and bees drawn as small dark strokes streaming out across the flowers.

Kitchen notes · September 5, 2026 · 4 min

Does hot tea ruin raw honey? Mostly no, and here's when to add it

The internet says heat destroys raw honey. The truth is smaller and more useful. What hot water actually does to honey, and the one-minute trick that keeps the flavor.

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A steaming cup of tea on a wooden table beside an open jar of honey and a dipper, morning light through a kitchen window.

Know your honey · September 4, 2026 · 4 min

Florida Red: the Panhandle honey that tastes like nothing else

Black titi blooms along the creek banks of the Florida Panhandle for a few weeks each spring. The honey it makes is red, bold and tangy, and almost nobody outside the region has tried it.

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A sandy creek bank in the Florida Panhandle lined with titi shrubs in white bloom, one hive on a rise, warm cream sky.

Know your honey · September 3, 2026 · 5 min

Linden honey: the basswood tree, the two-week bloom, and what it tastes like

One of the great honeys of the world comes from a shade tree most people walk past. A guide to linden honey and why it smells like mint.

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Pale yellow-green linden blossoms hanging from a branch, drawn close, with a wooded hillside and a row of hives below in soft light.

Know your honey · September 2, 2026 · 4 min

What clover honey tastes like, and why it's the one everyone starts with

The most common honey in America is common for a reason. A guide to clover honey, from the field to what to put it on.

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A close view of white and yellow clover blossoms in a summer field with a honeybee working one flower, a hive soft in the background.

Raw honey, explained · September 1, 2026 · 5 min

Raw honey vs. regular honey: what's actually different

Most grocery-store honey has been heated and pushed through a fine filter. Here is what those two steps take out, and what they leave behind.

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Two glass jars side by side on a wooden table in window light, one cloudy and pale, one perfectly clear and amber.

Kitchen notes · August 31, 2026 · 4 min

How to store honey so it stays good forever

Lid on, out of the sun, never in the fridge. Honey is the one thing in your pantry that does not expire, as long as you don't help it along.

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A pantry shelf in low warm light with a row of glass jars of honey in different shades, a folded cloth and a wooden spoon.

Raw honey, explained · August 29, 2026 · 5 min

What's actually in a jar of honey

Nectar, a little water, a lot of bee work, and nothing else. Here's how a field of flowers ends up as a pound of gold on your counter.

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Gloved hands hold a frame of honeycomb up to the light, half capped in wax and half open, with bees on the comb.

Acquired tastes · August 25, 2026 · 4 min

A field guide to buckwheat honey, for people who think they don't like it

Molasses, toffee, malt. If your grandmother was from anywhere east of Berlin, you may already know this one.

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A field of white buckwheat flowers, a weathered hive, and a slab of dark honeycomb beside a slice of rye bread.

Single-source honey · August 18, 2026 · 4 min

Why tupelo costs five dollars more

One tree, one river system, one short window each spring, and a honey that never crystallizes. That's what you're paying for.

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Two beekeepers in veils inspect a frame of honeycomb beside hives at the edge of a cypress swamp.

From the hives · August 11, 2026 · 5 min

Three weeks in June: chasing the linden bloom in the Driftless

Basswood flowers for a few short weeks, and the whole year's Linden honey depends on getting the hives there in time.

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A beekeeper walks a row of hives below a hillside of blooming basswood trees in the Driftless.

Raw honey, explained · August 4, 2026 · 3 min

Your honey turned solid. That's the good news.

Crystallization is what raw, unfiltered honey does when nobody has heated or filtered the life out of it. Here's why, and how to bring it back in one night.

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A crystallized jar of honey sits in a pan of warm water on a kitchen counter, next to a clear jar and a spoon of set honey.

One letter a month, when the bees have news.

Harvest dates, new jars, and nothing else.