About Honey Glen
We’ve got bees and honey! We provide our local area of north-central West Virginia with honey, and help other folks get started with beekeeping too. We believe our mountain forest honey is the best that money can buy.
Our Mountain Forest Honey
100% raw, pure, unadulterated, unfiltered… exactly as it comes in nature. We have had our honey tested and the tests prove what we already knew: it contains all the natural pollen that was meant to be there from our local area, nothing added or taken away.
Some beekeepers use a burning-hot knife to extract their honey and still call it raw, but our process is truly 100% unheated.
Our Hill Country Bees
It’s all about the queen. After breeding for many years, our bees are producing more honey and bees than we know what to do with, even after no mite treatments are given year after year. That means no cultural, mechanical, biological, or chemical mite interventions other than the bees and mites themselves working out a symbiosis. What we do to our hives is what we would do if there were no mites. Mites are becoming a non-issue for us, and our goal is for the regular production queens that we sell to you to be breeder quality. To that end we provide honeybees in the form of nucleus colonies (“nucs”) headed by our own Hill Country Queens, raised in our breeding yards flooded by our own Hill Country Drones. We raise our bees naturally without antibiotics or unnatural chemical pesticides – and now practically without any pesticides at all. We give our hives close attention and individual care. Tests have repeatedly shown our colonies to be free of Nosema and we have never seen chalkbrood or American Foulbrood in any of our colonies.
We raise our queens from our gentlest, most productive, and most mite-free mother colonies.
Our Training Services
Get your bees thriving! Know exactly what to do and when you need to do it for the best results. Honey Glen is offering interactive training to help newer beekeepers get a hang of beekeeping in record time.
Sign up for one of our beekeeper training options!
