Country Blossoms™ Honey | Pure Vermont Raw Honey

Seasonal Varieties Available Now

Once the bees have refilled their hives after winter, we extract honey throughout the beekeeping season. This allows us to capture the unique flavors and colors that come from different groups of flowering, nectar-producing trees, shrubs, and ground flora during the season. All of these are 100% natural, raw honey just as the bees and plants made them.

Our available seasonal varieties are described below. These seasonal variety choices are available only for 1 lb. classic, 1.5 lb. pint Mason, 2.75 lb. quart Mason, and 5 lb. round jars.

Click on each variety for a description of the flavor, color, and origin of each.

This is a lighter in color and milder honey than most honeys produced during our Vermont bee season. The nectar sources for this honey are mostly trees and woody shrubs like Sugar maple, Serviceberry, apple and cherry trees, and other Spring blooming plants.

A slightly stronger flavor than the Spring mild. as it's derived from a variety of wildflowers blooming in mid-May. Dandelion nectar gives it a slightly bolder flavor that has been quite popular.

This is another lighter colored honey whose sources are things like apple trees, Black locust trees (a major source of honey for us), berries, honeysuckle, and other flowering trees and shrubs. This honey is produced during late May and the month of June. White clover is beginning to bloom at this time so this honey can have white clover mixed in. There can also be some hints of Basswood (Linden tree) that begins to bloom very late in the month.

This is another lighter honey but with a bit stronger flavor than some of the earlier honeys. At this time of the year – late June – there are a lot of other plants blooming providing nectar so there are always other nectar sources mixed in with the white clover.

***By the way, if you ever see Red clover honey for sale, it’s a fake. Honey bees cannot collect nectar from Red clover because the Red clover flower tubules are too long for the honeybee’s proboscis to reach any nectar in the flower. The proboscis is a mouthpart appendage something like a tongue.

Basswood honey, also called Linden honey, is often described as having a mild, floral taste that some variously describe as citrusy, minty, mild lemony. The color ranges from very light amber to bright yellow. The flavor is unlike any of our other seasonal varieties. This wonderful variety is the first kind that we ever made when we first started beekeeping.
Our Basswood honey is nearly sold out. Two 2.75 lb. quart jars remain.

We do not get this variety every year. Like other tree species, its blooming is cyclic with a couple of years with plentiful blossoms followed by one with few or no blossoms thus no Basswood honey!

Nectar for this honey is collected by the bees during the last half of July. By this time of the season, trees and shrubs are no longer blooming but low-growing native flowers are. These flowers produce light amber colored honey with a slightly stronger flavor than earlier varieties.

This honey is produced from the nectar of ground level wildflowers during the latter half of August. Our customers often describe this as having a slightly bolder taste compared to lighter honeys. Some describe it as having earthy notes. It is a darker (medium amber), stronger flavored honey compared to milder varieties.

The species of Goldenrod that produce our Goldenrod honey bloom from late August into early September in our region. Goldenrod can be a major nectar source if weather conditions are favorable. Honey bees collect this nectar in great quantities and it can be the foundation of a colony’s food stores for winter. It has a golden amber color that iridescences green in sunlight from the Goldenrod pollen in the honey. If the Goldenrod nectar flow is very strong, as it was in 2024, the flavor is rich and mild. If there’s a drought and the Goldenrod nectar flow is reduced as it was in 2022, it can have a mildly pungent flavor from other flowers blooming at the same time.

Needless to say, we are very careful about removing honey at this time of the year. We only remove honey if the weight of the hive indicates that the colony has stored enough honey in the hive. Around the middle of September, we actually weigh every hive including the colony and honey inside to make sure they have reached our target weight for winter.

This variety is a light to medium amber color. Although it’s not our darkest honey, it’s usually our boldest-flavored honey. It tends to have a rich tartness especially noticeable on the back end. This varies from year to year depending on the weather late in the summer and early fall; in some years the fall honey is more tart than others! Typical sources are aster, knotweed, False chamomile, Joe-Pye weed, White Snakeroot, etc. Goldenrod can often continue blooming late and can be a part of our Fall wildflower honey,