Honey

Ombligo1

Do you use local, unpasteurized honey?  Where do you get it?

 We would like to get some, but don't know where to look.  I think our best bet is to start scouring Amish farms, but of course that's hard to do without actually going in person and asking around.

GRKaters

We use local, raw honey. We're members of a local food co-op, which is where I found the producer. One of our favorite grocery stores now carries some, too.

Ombligo1

We don't have anything like that here.  There is a grower's market that opened last year, we will go check it out here.  I hope it starts getting bigger so more small farms will start providing things like eggs, honey, etc.

JenD1018

GRKaters:

We use local, raw honey. We're members of a local food co-op, which is where I found the producer.

 Ditto for us, but I also noticed our Whole Foods sells local, raw honey.  I choose to buy from the co-op though because they money goes directly back to the farmers.

jennyk213

We get it at our co-op but they have it at a couple of the farmer's markets too. 

You could try searching for honey near your zip code on the local harvest website.   http://www.localharvest.org/

spiritenergy

We get ours at the farmers market. Several farmers sell honey at their stands. The local Amish here do maple syrup and not honey.

SuperGreen

spiritenergy:

We get ours at the farmers market. Several farmers sell honey at their stands.

We do this too.  It's the best honey ever, it has so much flavor. I never knew the quality of honey could vary so much.

CDMay2006

I get it at a local health food store.

Ombligo1

DAMN YOU ALL.

I have no Whole Foods, no health stores, no co-ops, nuttin.  I will just have to check out the growers market when it is in season. 

GRKaters

Ombligo1:

DAMN YOU ALL.

I have no Whole Foods, no health stores, no co-ops, nuttin.  I will just have to check out the growers market when it is in season. 

Nothing at all? Sometimes a regular grocery store (especially the smaller non-chain ones) will carry local products--just read the labels.

CDMay2006

Ombligo1:

DAMN YOU ALL.

I have no Whole Foods, no health stores, no co-ops, nuttin.  I will just have to check out the growers market when it is in season. 

You can probably order it, if you find a local company that sells it... where i get it are also a couple non-local raw honeys.  Do you have family/friends in, or visit a nearby city where there is a coop/health food/etc. store?

ksdk

I found my local beekeepers at the Farmers Market. They sell through their website, and technically I sell it too. But I am not here to sell you anything. I just want to deliver raw, local honey to the masses, so I signed on. You can find them at herbertsvillehoney.com

heliocentric

We get ours at the Farmer's Market. We also keep bees and hope to get our own honey this fall.

Maybe try craiglist or a local beekeeping group?

Ombligo1

My only grocery store is a state chain, they don't offer any options like that. The closest coop is an hour away. And I'd really like to do local, our daughter has allergies and we wanted to use it to desensitize all of us to the pollen.
BUT. I may have a lead. We're going to spend next Saturday "green" shopping - checking out different farms, making our first Toy Cow Creamery visit (which I would think would be a good resource for honey information), and I may have found a seller that goes to farmers markets.