Island Bees Raw Blackberry Honey

The majority of the honey produced on Salt Spring Island in the summer is from blackberry flowers but our Blackberry honey can include lavender, buckwheat, hawksbeard, and many other garden or wildflowers.  Therefore, the taste, aroma, and color can vary between batches making every batch unique but with blackberry being predominant.  Blackberry honey is a darker honey particularly when it is liquid and it has a stronger flavour than Wildflower honey collected earlier in the year.

100% of our honey was collected from flowers on Salt Spring Island. It is raw which means it has never been heated beyond the temperature that would normally be find inside a hive in order to preserve the natural enzymes that the bees add to it. It has been screened but has not been filtered because we do not want to remove the natural pollen grains. For that reason, it is not as clear as store bought honey, and you might find occasional tiny inclusions of wax or propolis or specks of other hive material.