Why would our business, which primarily survives by selling raw honey to customers, encourage people to start beekeeping in their own backyard and produce their own raw honey? Good question! When we began this journey years ago, our hope was to connect our customers with family-owned US apiaries faithfully producing high quality, pure raw…(Read More)
Good morning from the team at Go Raw Honey! While we were busy working on your orders, updating the site for some new summer deals, and adding new varietals to our catalog, we came across this amazing bit of news about honey bees we just had to share. Did you know that they can actually…(Read More)
In another one of those increasingly-frequent 2020 “oh great, now what do we have to deal with?” moments, we all learned this month that Asian Giant Hornets made landfall in the USA. Technically known as Vespa mandarinia and now known on social media as “Murder Hornets,” these enormous arthropods seem destined to spell doom…(Read More)
Always Pure & Raw. Our honey is brought straight from the hive to the jar with amazing natural flavors! It is unheated, kept under 105 degrees and totally raw, preserving live enzymes and natural yeasts. It has no sugars added and is never mixed with cheap offshore honey or watered down. It is unfiltered and…(Read More)
It is the perennial question: what should I do when my raw honey crystallizes on me? We do get asked that often enough, especially as real raw honey often tends to crystallize more than processed and pasteurized honey. Here are two things we do NOT recommend you do to smooth out crystallized raw honey, and…(Read More)
It sounds good to say. Sustainable beekeeping. But beyond the buzzwords, what does it mean to be committed to this holistically as a company? We don’t want to just jump on another bandwagon that “sounds good” but means little. Yes, we are officially part of the Sustainable Food Trade Association and Texas Beekeepers Association…(Read More)
Raw Honey Sounds Great, But What Is It? No, this isn’t the latest health fad, some new paleo diet, or some concoction organic food marketers made up recently to get people buying more honey. Raw honey has been around for, well, as long as bees have been around on this earth! Raw honey is…(Read More)
With the rise of diabetes, obesity, heart disease, and other medical problems due in a large part from processed and refined foods such as white sugar, many people began looking to sugar free “alternatives” to get their sweets without the health problems. Unfortunately, each of these sugar “alternatives” is also processed and some posed even…(Read More)