MOOSEHEAD APIARY

The Moosehead Apiary is a small backyard apiary in Hyde Park, N.Y. The owner - Przemek Skoskiewicz - is a hobbyist beekeeper who continues family traditions. His father and grandfather had bees in Poland

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OUR honey

All honey from the Moosehead Apiary is labeled as ‘raw honey’.

To borrow a definition from Wikipedia: Raw honey is as it exists in the beehive or as obtained by extraction, settling, or straining, without adding heat (although some honey that has been „minimally processed” is often labeled as raw honey). Raw honey contains some pollen and may contain small particles of wax.

Aside from mechanical straining, all honey goes straight from the extractor to a settling bucket to let the air bubbles escape. Air is mixed in with honey during the extraction since the droplets of honey are flung against the walls of the extractor by the centrifugal forces and mix with air. Once the honey has settled for 24-48h it is immediately bottled. What you are tasting in the honey is exactly what honey bees have created in the hive. It does not taste at all like the store-bought honey, because it’s real honey.

As for the source of nectar for my honey I consider at multi-floral. The Moosehead Apiary is within bee’s flight distance from the Val Kill wilderness area in Hyde Park, NY. While there are some flower meadows nearby I consider that most of the nectar gathered by my bees comes from the variety of trees growing within a 2-3 mile radius of the apiary.
Because I do not micro-filter or heat my honey, it very quickly crystalizes into a creamy consistency. One might even call it like cream honey for its look, but that’s just what it does naturally, without any mechanical whipping. If you prefer to consume honey in its liquid form, NEVER warm it directly in a microwave or on a stove. Instead put it in a pot of hot water and give the crystals time to liquify.
Honey in its natural form is a supersaturated sugar solution with fructose & glucose as the primary sugars. In additional honey contains various enzymes added during processing by the bees, bacteria, pollen and other minuscule amounts of organic matter gathered by honey bees during nectar collections. Honey should never be given to children under 1 year, because of the risk of botulism. Flower nectar used for honey may naturally contain bacteria Clostridium botulinum.