River Bee Honey

River Bee Honey 100% Raw Local Honey for sale.

09/21/2025

Sadly we are sold out of honey for the year ): Thank you everyone for all your support! Hope to see you next june! 🌺 🐝 🌼 ☮️

🐝 A note from the honey stand🐝 Nectar:-A sweet liquid that is secreted by the nectaries of a plant to encourage pollinat...
09/04/2025

🐝 A note from the honey stand🐝

Nectar:
-A sweet liquid that is secreted by the nectaries of a plant to encourage pollination by insects and other animals, and is the chief raw material of honey.
-(in Greek and Roman mythology) the drink of the gods.

As spring turned to summer and summer is waining into fall, the bees work the blooms tirelessly collecting, among other things, nectar to make honey for their winter stores. And when we’re lucky a little extra for us! River Bee keeps no hives on monoculture. All our bees forage from a mixture of Central Indiana wild flowers and trees producing honey from a mixture of different plants nectar. As the season progresses different plants have their nectar flow at different times. An average plant’s nectar flow may be around 2-4 weeks. As some plant species flow ends others start. Central Indiana’s nectar flow has slowed considerably by this time of year (summer dearth), and then starts to pick up a bit again with some late bloomers, big ones being Golden Rod and Aster in this region.

So as all the different nectar is brought into the hive, made into honey, and stored in the the comb, the bees are telling a story. The timeline of the season by texture, color, smell, and taste! When we see distinct differences in honey frames we generally try to extract and bottle that honey seperately to provide different options and experiences.

I have attached some photos from last weeks extraction. Two honey frames that were sitting side by side in a hive that show three distinct shades of honey. And some bottles on the stand side by side after bottling.

Enjoy your end of summer, and if you’re in the neighborhood enjoy some honey from the stand!! 🌼 🐝 🌳 🐝 🌺

07/25/2025

Good Morning!
🌺 We got honey back on the stand!! 🌺 The spring harvest honey is all gone ): but we pulled and extracted the first round of summer harvest this week. Sorry for the delay. Happy Summer!! 🐝 🌞 🌳

🌼 🐝 WE ARE OPEN FOR THE SEASON!!!🍯 🌺
06/29/2025

🌼 🐝 WE ARE OPEN FOR THE SEASON!!!🍯 🌺

10/30/2024

Good morning,
The temperature is falling and so are the leaves. As Autumn takes hold we are nearing the end of this years honey harvest. We will be getting the last jars out over the next few days until it is gone. Thank you all so much for supporting us again this year. We will spend winter building bee boxes and planning for spring expansion.
Enjoy your cold months! I know the bees will be eager to get on the crocus blooms when they pop up through the frosty ground this spring, and hopefully we will have honey back on the stand around early June. Thank you all for a such a great year!
🍁 🍂 🍁

Hello! We apologize for the delay, but we have honey on the stand!! We are taking our last harvest for this summer. We h...
08/19/2024

Hello! We apologize for the delay, but we have honey on the stand!!
We are taking our last harvest for this summer. We have so far taken honey from one bee yard, and it is dark! Last year this yard also had very dark summer honey. It tastes rich and smooth and very good! None of our hives sit on monocolture, so they all get a variety of Indiana nectar sources, but this yard sits on a lot of hardwood forest and, as with last year, we suspect a high percentage of Tulip poplar nectar added to this dark treat!
If you like a lighter honey we will be pulling from the other yards this week and getting that honey out to the stand as soon as we can. If years past are any indication of this year, that honey will be lighter.
Thanks you all for supporting your local bee keepers!
Enjoy!

08/05/2024

Unfortunately we are about out of honey until I get the summer harvest done. I’m currently out of town for work and will be working the harvest as soon as I get back, but it may be a few weeks. I’ll post here when I get that honey on the stand.
Thank you for all your support!

07/17/2024

Hello friends!
We are sorry to say that we have temporarily run out of honey at the stand! ):
We are in Vermont on vacation and didn’t bottle enough to keep the stand stocked up.
We will be home this weekend and get some bottles out on the stand early next week!
Thank you all so much for your support and understanding!! 🐝❤️🐝

07/07/2024

Your best bet is to buy from your local beekeeper! Come visit our self-serve River Bee honey stand at Westfield Blvd and Riverby Rd, just north of 75th St.

Hello from the honey stand,Hope you’re all enjoying an easy Sunday morning. If you have been by the stand in recent days...
06/30/2024

Hello from the honey stand,
Hope you’re all enjoying an easy Sunday morning.
If you have been by the stand in recent days you may have noticed two very different shades of honey. We thought we would explain.
This spring’s weather brought Central Indiana an exceptional Black Locust nectar flow. Lucky us!! Although our bees forage from all kinds of local trees and flowers, as they forage nectar and make honey they pack it in to their honey comb as it’s collected. A honey as light in color as Black Locust is very easy to distinguish. As we extract honey we can separate frames with this light appearance, (high concentration of Black Locust in this case), and offer something a little different depending on what the season and the bees bring in!
Black locust honey is very sweet and a little lighter with less richness than the more copper colored honey on the stand. Both very good, but a bit different.
Live the sweet life! Enjoy your beautiful Central Indiana Sunday!

Some beautiful honey stand improvements 🥰
06/16/2024

Some beautiful honey stand improvements 🥰

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Indianapolis, IN
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