Best Honey Farm Hamilton Near Me

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I am Terry Burr - the owner/operator of the family run "The Burrs and the Bees". We've been providing the people of Puslinch Township with award winning wild flower honey and beeswax candles since 1980. Until this Web-site was developed, word of mouth has been our primary method of meeting you the customer, along with our presence at the Aberfoyle Fall Fair. For your convenience as we no longer support our road-side stand at 4190 Sideroad in Puslinch we deliver ‘free’ in the Tri-City Guelph areas. For other locations please look at our OUTLETS Section. What makes our honey the best? I'm not sure I know how to properly answer that question; but, let me try. First of all, our honey is typical Southern Ontario Honey. What does that mean? It means it is not pure clover honey, that many people are familiar with from grocery store purchases of years gone by. Let me explain a little further. Canadian Honey from Western Canada is typically white clover honey.


Those with a very discerning taste (or those that have samples from different years) will notice that our honey may be slightly different year to year. This subtle difference is compliments of mother nature and her ability to give the bees varying volumes of nectar sources, such as more nectar from some plants in that year and less nectar from other plants. Does honey need to be pasteurized and is our honey pasteurized? In a word: NO. But let me explain further. Honey contains no bacteria, thus explaining why (if sealed) it can keep forever. This also explains why it does not need to be pasteurized. The enzymes that the bees add to the honey gives honey its anti-bacterial properties. Milk needs to be pasteurized. Honey does not. The pasteurization process in honey will kill wild yeasts and it will kill enzymes. There are many issues to discuss here and this is not the forum to do that, but I think it boils down to a personal choice. I choose unpasteurized. Killing wild yeast will prevent fermentation in honey with too high a moisture content, but killing enzymes may remove some health benefits from the honey. The only caveat I would give is that for some small percentage of the population, there may be an allergic reaction to yeast. In their case the pasteurization process may be valid. In my opinion the big producers use pasteurization for convenience; the convenience of being able to heat their honey and move it faster and easier in the bottling process.