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Small-Batch Honey Producers

Delicious Honey Worth Seeking Out

By , About.com Guide

These are some seriously delicious honeys - taste the difference between mass-marketed honey and small-batch spun honey from one of these honey producers. There are more great honeys out there - let me know at localfoods.guide@about.com.

Big Island Bees

This raw, organic honey from the Big Island of Hawaii comes in O'hia Lelua Blossom (a thick but light and very floral honey), Wilelaiki (orange colored and slightly spicy), or Macadamia Nut Blossom (dark and rich honey I could drink all day).

Katz Branches Honey

Katz primarily producers high-quality olive oils (their oil is used at Chez Panisse). Through their Branches Honey brand, they also bottle and sell some amazingly delicious raw honey in a range of "flavors" – wild blackberry, black button sage, raspberry flower, citrus blossom, and range wildflower.

Round Rock Honey

The bees that make Round Rock Honey feed on century plant, pomegranate, thistle, desert rose, acacia, and dewberry flowers in Central Texas. With desert, plains, and forest in close proximity, the bees have an impressive variety to feed from. Round Rock Honey offers a fee bee removal service - it will take pesky bee hives away which avoids extermination and replenishes their hives. Cool.

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