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Description

Our Kootenay Wildflower honey is a pure, raw unpasteurized honey, bottled under our Swan Valley Honey brand. We produce this signature honey right in the beautiful Creston Valley, and is lovingly produced from healthy bees. Our bees collect nectar from alfalfa, snowberry, clover, sweet clover, vetch and many more flowers between May and August.

It is separate and distinct from our other varietal honeys, including Fireweed and 1000 Blossoms.

Our Kootenay wildflower honey can change in colour and flavour seasonally, depending on weather and what’s in bloom. If it says “Kootenay Wildflower” honey on the label, that means it’s right from our apiaries in the valley. This is what makes our honey so special: it is never really the same from one season to the next, and the flavours can subtly change. Even so, there is a stability and regularity to the honey our bees produce.

HOW WE KEEP BEES AND TAKE CARE OF OUR HONEY

We practice holistic beekeeping and treat our bees with great care. We don’t pasteurize or heat our honey above nest temperature during extraction or bottling. That way we protect the incredible purity, flavour and rawness of our wonderful product. We also do not blend different varietals. It’s pure honey, raw and simple.

This is what makes our honey so special: it is never really the same from one season to the next, and the flavours can subtly change. Even so, there is a stability and regularity to the honey our bees produce. Our reward over the years is a fine natural food. And our customers  tell us this is perhaps the best honey they’ve tasted.

HOW DO YOU KNOW THIS IS PURE HONEY?

We rigorously protect the purity of our honey; we regularly send samples in for floral fingerprinting by Canadian honey authentication programs. These programs can identify specific forages and pollens. This process also identifies honeys that have been adulterated with other sugars. It is no surprise that our honeys pass with flying colours.