Queen Farina

Website: queenfarina.com

This grower uses synthetic fertilizers and/or pesticides.

This grower has a photo album.

Our two families are joined by sisters with a crazy love for fresh, whole foods, sunshine and beekeeping. We come from a long line of Italians that love to cook and eat. We live in the kitchen and start cooking the next meal before we’ve finished the last. If you have a love for food and eating like we do, then you’ve come to the right place! Our honey is raw, natural, and delicious. You’ve come here to partake…welcome to the family!

Raw and Real
There are a ton of ways to legally define and label raw honey. Here’s how we do it: We don’t pasteurize or filter it. We only lightly strain it to remove unwanted particles. Raw honey has an indefinite shelf-life. It’s normal for honey in its purest form to crystallize over time. Crystallized honey can be brought back to a flowing state by running it under warm water. You can expect there may be traces of pollen, propolis, beeswax, enzymes, minerals and all other natural goodness in your bottle of honey…spread THAT on your toast!

We’re Certified
We are super proud to be Certified Natural Growers. What does this mean? It means that we follow guidelines that promote natural, healthy and safe beekeeping. Our honey is created on land that is not treated with pesticides, herbicides, fungicides and synthetic fertilizers. It also means we don’t treat our hives with antibiotics. Our little ladies are healthy and our hives are free of antibiotic residue. We work and study in the nursing field and antibiotic resistance is a big deal to us! Certified Naturally Grown is the grassroots alternative to Certified Organic for family-sized farms and apiaries. The standards are largely the same, with our inspections conducted by local farmers and customers.

Giving Back
Our bees visit 2 million flowers to make us one pound of honey! So, right here at the pollination station we’re spreading the sweetness. We’ve created The Bee’s Kneeds Campaign to encourage the growth of our girls by planting bee friendly flowers, scrapping the pesticides, and avoiding antibiotic resistance. It’s important to allow the honeybees to live in their natural environment and do what they do best, make honey! And thanks to your support, every year we will add more beehives and take extensive measures to protect our current colonies through the elements of winter.