Baxter Hollow Farm Honey
Sourwood Honey
Sourwood honey is prized by connoisseurs and honey purists worldwide. It has won best honey in the world twice at the presitigious Apimondia World Honey Show. It is very aromatic, with a light, bright, very sweet honey flavor. This particular honey is in short supply as the sourwood blossoms from the Sourwood tree, (also called the Sour gum, Sorrel tree or Lily-of-the-Valley), have a short blooming season. The Sourwood tree is found predominantly in the Appalachian mountains of Western NC. We have an abundance of Sourwood’s on our 10 acre farm.
This honey is wild, raw, lightly filtered, and unpasteurized.
Wildflower Honey
Wildflower honey is a polyfloral honey, which means that bees visit several different kinds of plants in their pursuit of nectar. As such, each honey harvest will have variations in taste and color depending on the blossoms the bees have visited. This honey can shift in flavor from a sweet, rich caramel, to a predominant flavor of wild blackberry. On our 10 acre farm, we have an abundance of wild blossoms ranging from blueberry, blackberry, honeysuckle, tulip poplar, bull nettle, chickweed, dandelion, sheep sorel, lyreleaf sage, lobelia, heal-all, wild mint, St. John’s Wort, sourwood, goldenrod, buttercup, fleabane daisy, english and common plantain, clover, jewelweed, cardinal flower, and bee balm (to name a few). We also have a fruit tree orchard of apples, pear, mulberry, fig, elderberry, high and low bush blueberry, muscadine grape, and raspberry. In addition, the bees love to pollinate our 3000 sq ft organic garden where we grow over 200 species of fruits, herbs, and vegetables.
This honey is wild, raw, lightly filtered, and unpasteurized.