Our Honey
Welcome to honey from Sawmill Creek Apiaries, located in the Driftless Region of Wisconsin (an area in which the glaciers did not cover). The steep, wooded hills and hollers (and no straight roads) provide a perfect flowering diversity hotspot for our honeybees to do their work.
Sawmill Creek Apiaries produces all-natural honey made by our honeybees from the nectar of trees, clover, and wildflower blossoms. Our honey is not filtered or pasteurized, and no flavoring is added!
We hope you enjoy the pure deliciousness and health benefits of our honey. Honey is antibacterial and antifungal, can be used for alleviating hay fever and related allergies, and can treat sore throats and colds. It also makes a delicious, healthy, alternative sweetener for drinks and baking products.
Our Approach
At Sawmill Creek Apiaries, our goal is to develop, propagate, and distribute a truly sustainable honeybee population. Sadly, many northern states average less than 50 percent winter survival of operated hives. Typically, our hive survival rate is above 65 percent. We are continuously introducing new, hybrid queens with strong genetics to develop an all-around hardier apiary.
Our Story
We have always been outdoor people. Keeping bees just seemed like a good way of giving back to the outdoors, if even just a little. It became apparent that there were very few honeybees anymore, so we started our beekeeping journey with one hive in 2017. That hive didn’t even live through November of that year, but instead of giving up and quitting, it made us even more determined. And now, seven years later, we typically operate 15–25 hives (it’s still just a hobby … for now).
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