About Honey Creek Farms

Family owned and operated, Honey Creek Bee Farm maintains 75 honey bee colonies throughout Georgia where their bees can gather nectar from all the local plants.  They pride themselves on providing exceptional raw, locally produced honey and strive to continue bringing the highest standard of quality to all of our products.

About Liberty Hill Honey

 

Our home apiary (aka "bee yard") is in middle Georgia, just south of Atlanta and a little north of Macon.  We currently have around fifty colonies of honeybees, spread out across several locations. We have several permanent bee yards, and we also move colonies around to different locations from time to time. We produce and sell honey, pollen, and bees wax, and we also do some agricultural pollination here and there.

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We produce local wildflower honey, as well as several different varieties of monofloral honey. In years where the weather cooperates, we can harvest cotton, blackberry, and tulip poplar honey.  All of the honey we sell is 100% pure, raw honey.

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     - Our honey is NEVER heated, blended, or micro-filtered.  

     - We NEVER add anything to, cut, or dilute our honey in any way.  

     - We never use any chemicals or antibiotics in our beehives. 

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Once we extract the honey from the comb, all we do is run it through a strainer about as fine as your typical window screen to get out the random wing or antenna.  We leave all of the natural goodness in the honey. We take pride in producing and offering the very finest honey available.  In this day of processed and adulterated foods, a natural sweet food like raw, local honey is a rare treat.  The honey you buy from the Liberty Hill Honey Company, LLC, will always be 100% raw, unfiltered honey, and NOTHING else... just like Mother Nature and the bees made it!

         

Our honey house is licensed and regularly inspected, and our honey tested, by the Georgia Department of Agriculture, so you can be assured every bottle of honey bearing Liberty Hill Honey Company, LLC, label has been handled with care, and the honey inside is as pure, wholesome, and delicious as the honeybees and Mother Nature intended.

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More About Honey

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This wonderfully rich golden liquid is the miraculous product of honey bees and a naturally delicious alternative to white sugar. Although it is available throughout the year, it is an exceptional treat in the summer and fall when it has just been harvested and is at its freshest.

The fascinating process of making honey begins when the bees feast on flowers, collecting the flower nectar in their mouths. This nectar then mixes with special enzymes in the bees’ saliva, an alchemical process that turns it into honey. The bees carry the honey back to the hive where they deposit it into the cells of the hive’s walls. The fluttering of their wings provides the necessary ventilation to reduce the moisture’s content making it ready for consumption.

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Honey is a mix of natural sugars (80%), water (18%) and minerals, vitamins, pollen, protein and amino acids (2%). Around 70% of honey’s natural sugar content is made up of fructose and glucose.

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FAQS from Honey Creek

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How should honey be stored?

Honey should be kept in dry storage at room temperature. Honey should never be stored in the refrigerator as dong so actually accelerates crystallization, the natural process in which the liquid in honey becomes solid. Honey stored in sealed containers can remain stable for decades and even centuries! However, it may darken and lose its aroma and flavor over time.

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Are all honeys the same?

No way! The color, taste and aroma of honey changes depending on the floral source that the bees visit. Dark honeys tend to have more minerals and enzymes than light. Mass-produced “megastore” brands are usually pasteurized and filtered, which destroys much of honey’s natural enzymes and pollen content. Using only raw or unfiltered honey assures you that all of the healthy benefits of the honey are present.

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Is honey safe for young children and babies?

Do not feed honey or honey-containing products to infants less than one year of age. Their immune systems are not developed enough to handle some bacteria which naturally occurs in honey. Honey is a safe and healthful food for adults and children over the age of 12 months.

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Can I substitute honey for sugar?

Yes, honey is a delicious, all-natural sweetener. When replacing sugar with honey in cooking and baking applications, follow these simple guidelines: To Cook with Honey: For sauces, marinades and salad dressings, substitute pure honey for up to half the granulated sweetener called for in your recipe (e.g., replace one cup of sugar with one-half cup of honey). To Bake with Honey: Use pure honey for up to half the granulated sweetener called for in your recipe. In addition, for each cup of honey used, reduce any added liquid by 1/4 cup, add 1/2 teaspoon baking soda, and reduce oven temperature by 25°F. Honey has a higher sweetening power than sugar, so you can use less honey than sugar.

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