Tue, 2010-11-02 12:23

Gift Boxes Now Available!!

Our holiday Gift Boxes are almost ready for you to order. I am going to give you a preview of the boxes below with a description of each one. Each gift box is made from local, sustainable, aromatic cedar right here on the farm, and packed with a variety of our products. Each box also comes with a wooden honey dipper and a personalized gift card from you to your giftee, then it is shrink-wrapped and sent USPS Priority mail to keep shipping costs down. The price includes shipping and insurance, so all you have to do is select and pay; we take care of the rest!
We are able to accommodate custom selections if you do not see the combination that you want; please call us at 775-560-5333. With this option there is no online checkout, but we will be able to check you out on our virtual terminal here. Just give us a call! We are always happy to answer any of you questions.

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We will ship you order within 48 hours, but be sure to order in a timely manner to avoid USPS cutoff dates. If you have an emergency, we can use FEDEX, but it's alittle pricey.Have fun with this and let us know if there are any wishes that you do not see here that we can help you with. Lee

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Mon, 2012-01-16 10:16

Most Supermarket Honey isn't even Real Honey!

This Food Safety News article is pretty shocking. We can't copy the whole thing so please follow the link below and give it a full read (it's a bit long but worth it). The upshot is that researchers have found that nearly all honey from major store brands have ZERO pollen -- along with the honey from nearly all chain restaurants. Calling something 'honey' when it has no pollen is like calling mountain dew scotch! They are both liquids yes, but the similarities stop there.

Here is a list of the honey tested by Food Safety News that showed no traces of pollen. [American Choice Clover Honey, Archer Farms Orange Blossom Honey, Archer Farms Organic Classic Honey, Busy Bee Organic Honey, Busy Bee, Pure Clover Honey, CVS Honey,Fred Meyer Clover Honey, Full Circle Pure Honey, Giant Eagle Clover Honey, GE Clover Honey, Great Value, Clover Honey, Haggen Honey, Natural & Pure, HT Traders Tupelo Honey, Kroger Pure Clover Honey, Market Pantry Pure Honey, Mel-o 100 % Pure Honey, Natural Sue Bee Clover Honey, Naturally Preferred Fireweed Honey, Rite Aid Honey, Safeway Clover Honey, Silver Bow Pure Honey, Stop and Shop Clove Honey, Sue Bee Clover Honey, Thrifty Bee Honey, Valutime Honey, Walgreen MEL-O honey,Western Family Clover Honey, Wegman Clover Honey, Winnie the Pooh, Pure Clover]

Tests Show Most Store Honey Isn't Honey

Ultra-filtering Removes Pollen, Hides Honey Origins

by Andrew Schneider | Nov 07, 2011

More than three-fourths of the honey sold in U.S. grocery stores isn't exactly what the bees produce, according to testing done exclusively for Food Safety News.

The results show that the pollen frequently has been filtered out of products labeled "honey."

The removal of these microscopic particles from deep within a flower would make the nectar flunk the quality standards set by most of the world's food safety agencies.

The food safety divisions of the World Health Organization, the European Commission and dozens of others also have ruled that without pollen there is no way to determine whether the honey came from legitimate and safe sources.

In the U.S., the Food and Drug Administration says that any product that's been ultra-filtered and no longer contains pollen isn't honey. However, the FDA isn't checking honey sold here to see if it contains pollen.

Ultra filtering is a high-tech procedure where honey is heated, sometimes watered down and then forced at high pressure through extremely small filters to remove pollen, which is the only foolproof sign identifying the source of the honey. It is a spin-off of a technique refined by the Chinese, who have illegally dumped tons of their honey - some containing illegal antibiotics - on the U.S. market for years.

Smuggled Honey Makes It To American Stores Under Cover Of 'Ultra-Filtration'

From Huffington Post - Chinese Honey what's next??

The next time you find yourself in the honey aisle of your grocery store, debating between a pricy premium, artisanal honey and the store-brand nectar contained in a plastic bear, you might want to think twice before choosing based on price.

That's because a searing investigation of the honey market by Food Safety News found that 76% of all honey bought at grocery stores were treated with a process called "ultra-filtration," which removes not only impurities like wax, but also all traces of pollen. And of the types of brands at grocery stores, the ones that were far-and-away the most likely to be ultra-filtered were generic brands.

There are issues with ultra-filtration in general -- many believe that pollen, and other so-called "impurities," are actually beneficial to human health, and make honey a better choice than rival sweeteners like sugar. And there doesn't seem to be any serious benefit to the process; it's expensive and doesn't significantly improve shelf-life, even though some manufacturers claim it does.

But according to FSN, the biggest reason to avoid ultra-filtered honey is that pollen is the only sure-fire way to trace the source of honey to a geographic location. As a result ultra-filtered honey is often used to mask the shady origins of certain kinds of honey -- especially Chinese honey, which is subject to heavy import tariffs on account of its frequent contamination by heavy metals and illegal antibiotics. Chinese honeymakers ultra-filter their honey, and then ship it through byzantine paths, to sneak their sham product onto American grocery shelves without being hit with a tariff.

New Raw Honey Varieties

We've got several new varieties of our local raw Oregon honey including blackberry, raspberry and white clover. Check them out!

White Clover Raw Honey Jar 1+ lb

Lazy golden fields of warm clover, basking in the summer sun, swimming holes, lying on your back looking for shapes in the clouds... This is our White Clover. 'Strained, never filtered, to retain natural pollen'

Lee's Bees 92727 Cape Blanco Rd. Sixes, Oregon 97476 Net. Wt. 1+ pounds (680.4 grams)

Pure raw honey strained, never filtered, to retain local pollen.

Sell price: $14.00

White Clover Raw Honey Jar 8 oz.

White Clover Honey - All Raw Never Filtered

Raw Oregon White Clover Honey 8 oz jar. Lazy golden fields of warm clover, basking in the summer sun, swimming holes, lying on your back looking for shapes in the clouds... This is our White Clover. 'Strained, never filtered, to retain natural pollen'

Lee's Bees 92727 Cape Blanco Rd. Sixes, Oregon 97476 Net. Wt. 1+ pounds (680.4 grams)

Pure raw honey strained, never filtered, to retain local pollen.

Sell price: $7.00

Raw Oregon Raspberry Honey Jar 1+ lb

Not many honeys hint at their parent plant, but this definitely shrieks RASPBERRIES! Very sweet and fruity, it finishes with a slight bite. It is a rare summer treat with floral teas, fresh fruit or breads.

'Strained, never filtered, to retain natural pollen'

Lee's Bees 92727 Cape Blanco Rd. Sixes, Oregon 97476 Net. Wt. 1+ pounds (680.4 grams)

Pure raw honey strained, never filtered, to retain local pollen.

Sell price: $14.00

Raw Oregon Raspberry Honey Jar 8 oz.

Raw Oregon Raspberry Honey 8 oz. jar. Not many honeys hint at their parent plant, but this definitely shrieks RASPBERRIES! Very sweet and fruity, it finishes with a slight bite. It is a rare summer treat with floral teas, fresh fruit or breads.

'Strained, never filtered, to retain natural pollen'

Lee's Bees 92727 Cape Blanco Rd. Sixes, Oregon 97476 Net. Wt. 1+ pounds (680.4 grams)

Pure raw honey strained, never filtered, to retain local pollen.

Sell price: $7.00

Raw Oregon Blackberry Honey Jar 1+ lb

Raw Oregon Blackberry Honey - It's berrytastic!

Not many honeys hint at their parent plant, but this definitely shrieks BLACKBERRIES! Very sweet and fruity, it is a rare summer treat with floral teas, fresh fruits, breads, or all by itself.

'Strained, never filtered, to retain natural pollen'

Lee's Bees 92727 Cape Blanco Rd. Sixes, Oregon 97476 Net. Wt. 1+ pounds (680.4 grams)

Pure raw honey strained, never filtered, to retain local pollen.

Sell price: $14.00

Raw Oregon Blackberry Honey Jar 8 oz.

8 oz. jar of Raw Oregon Blackberry Honey. Not many honeys hint at their parent plant, but this definitely shrieks BLACKBERRIES! Very sweet and fruity, it is a rare summer treat with floral teas, fresh fruits, breads, or all by itself.

'Strained, never filtered, to retain natural pollen'

Lee's Bees 92727 Cape Blanco Rd. Sixes, Oregon 97476 Net. Wt. 1+ pounds (680.4 grams)

Pure raw honey strained, never filtered, to retain local pollen.

Sell price: $7.00