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1. What are your store hours?
We are always open! Our Farm Store is a self-serve shop, so you can come when you want and pay cash or credit for your products right there.
2. Can I order online and do you ship?
Yes! All of our products can be found on our online store, and we will ship anywhere in the continental U.S.
3. Is local honey good for allergies?
Yes! Local honey is helpful for allergies as the bees pollinate the plants, weeds, and flowers that you may be allergic to. We suggest taking a tablespoon per day. Just make sure the honey is from a farm in your region of the state where the same sort of trees and flowers grow.
4. Will honey spoil?
No, honey never spoils. Pure honey may get thick or crystallize over time, but it’s still safe to eat! Good honey has been found in the Egyptian tombs!
5. How do I melt crystallized honey?
Just boil a pot of water, turn it off and set the honey bottle (glass bottles only) in it. It will amber back out. Don’t microwave it!
6. How should I store honey?
Don’t put it in the fridge. Just leave it out on your counter.
7. What are the benefits of pure honey?
Pure honey is rich in antioxidants, may lower risk of heart disease, relieves sore throat and cough, is a natural antibacterial and antifungal, helps heal wounds, aids in digestion, relieves allergies, and moisturizes skin and hair.
8. How do you flavor your honey?
We don’t add flavor. Raw honey is straight from the hive. The flavor changes based on what the bees pollinate. In spring, you get a lighter honey due to clover and other spring flowers. In Fall, you get darker honey after the bees pollinate wildflowers and other summer crops.
9. How many hives do you have?
We try to maintain 70–75 hives. We lose some every year and we are always adding more.
10. Are honeybees dying out?
Honeybee colonies saw a big decline in 2025, but they have been relatively stable overall since 2008. The main threats are varroa mites, diseases, hive beetles, wax moths, pesticide exposure, cold weather.
11. What is the number one killer of honey bees?
The Varroa mite (Verroa destructor), which came from Asia. They suck the honeybees’ body fluid like ticks. They also transmit diseases to the bees.
12. Do you sell honey with the comb?
No. The season here is too short to take their comb from the hive. They will not have time to rebuild comb and make honey. We let them keep the comb so we get more honey.
13. I have a swarm in my yard. Can you come get it?
Yes, if we are close enough and the swarm are actual honeybees, we can come and get them.
14. Can you get the bees out of my walls?
No. Our insurance doesn’t allow us to alter your home to remove honeybees.
15. Why did you want to become a beekeeper?
It’s good for PTSD. It’s calming. It reduces stress.
16. How many times have you been stung?
Thousands of times. But you get used to it. We like to say you are not a real beekeeper until you have a bee fly up your pants and you just ignore it.
17. What if I want to become a beekeeper? What do you recommend I do?
Take a free beginners beekeeping class at your local ag extension office. Start small, with two to three hives. Learn from other beekeepers as you go — mentors are important!
18. Should I buy honey at the grocery store?
Check the label. The U.S. imports 400 million tons of honey per year. The FDA has almost zero quality control on imported honey. Buy from a local farmer and you don’t have to worry about what is “in” your honey.
19. Do you recycle your glass honey bottles?
Yes! Drop them off at our Farm Store and we will sanitize them and fill them with honey again.
20. Do you have purple honey?
We did this year! Purple honey is rare and only found in the Sandhills of North Carolina, and no one knows for sure what causes it. Watch our social media — if we get more purple honey we’ll let you know!