Kalapuya Honey

06/01/2023

Early years…
Umpqua Valley Farmers' Market

06/01/2023

06/01/2023

Hello Honey Friends –
And that is exactly how we feel about you, our very loyal customers, as friends that we’ve made over the years, providing wonderful local honey, laughter, and education on all things bees and honey. We’ve sampled varietals together, Blueberry, Blackberry, Wildflower, Starthistle, Pumpkin, Cranberry and a delightful, unexpected mix of Blackberry/Cranberry, just to name our most sought-after varietals.

We’ve shared so many happy times interacting with you, so it is with mixed feelings that we announce that we are changing our focus to coaching and consulting and are retiring from coming to the Umpqua Valley Farmers' Market

Dallas has been doing bees since he was a teenager (and he happily shows a picture to all, showing him in a bee yard at age 14 – you know, you’ve seen that picture). Beekeeping is a part of his very being, so we aren’t getting out of the bee business entirely but moving away from producing large volumes of local honey and providing pollination services, to a new phase of sharing our knowledge and encouraging new beekeepers to learn about and be successful in keeping bees. It has been vitally important to us to provide genuine local, raw honey in its purest form – you deserve honesty and a quality product – one of our core values as beekeepers.

There comes a time for all of us to evaluate that we are getting, ahem, older (why is that so hard to say?) and to decide when it’s the best time to make changes. This is a decision that we’ve struggled with – when should we slow down a bit?

It requires long hours to keep bees on a large scale, moving bees at night and meeting the sunrise on the way home, with our old, dented Stanley thermos of coffee by our side, then working bees during the day, and extracting, bottling, and labeling honey in the evening.

While we are sad to leave the market and all of you, we are looking forward to being a coach, mentor, and consultant to people interested in adding beehives to their backyards, farms, homesteads.

With that, we bid you a sweet farewell, and wish you all the best. You can still find us on our page of Kalapuya Honey

05/20/2023

Hello honey lovers!
Tomorrow (5/20) we will be featuring our Cranberry honey - we saved a little “secret stash” to bring as a sweet surprise.

We have a limited supply of this delightful honey -which will remind you of a sweet tart. This light amber colored honey has a bit of an initial twang-but finished oh so sweetly.
Available only in one pound jars-we ask that customers limit to two jars each - so we can share this varietal with as many people as possible. First come, first serve.

We will also have our crowd favorite-Wildflower-a full bodied honey that our customers request most.

See you tomorrow at Umpqua Valley Farmers' Market

03/18/2023

Hello Honey Friends - We will not be at the Umpqua Valley Farmers' Market Saturday, March 18th. Some of you know that we have bees in the Almonds in California - and California has been hit steadily with bad weather, snow, rain, flooding - all of which makes the bees' life extremely difficult. We have a tiny window of good weather - so we are off to check on them to see how they are holding up in these conditions.

We will be back next Saturday, March 25, 2023.

12/10/2022

Hi honey lovers-
We won’t be at the Farmer’s market tomorrow, Saturday, 12/10, due to unforeseen circumstances. We will be back the following Saturday, 12/17. See you next Saturday! Dallas and Rhonda

09/02/2022

We have a wonderful new harvest of Wildflower honey! Every season there are subtle nuances to this varietal depending on how much rain, what flowers blooms first, what bloom lingers. Rich, full bodied, palate pleasing with floral notes, our most asked for varietal is here. See us at Umpqua Valley Farmers' Market this Saturday. Also available, Blackberry Blossom, Cranberry Cabaret and Starthistle. Come try a taste and pick up your favorite!

08/27/2022

Cranberry Honey 🍯is here! We didn't think we were going to be able to harvest a crop - the weather on the coast rarely warmed up enough for the bees to gather enough nectar, (like last year), but lo and behold - we have a small batch to share with you. We call this Coastal Cranberry Cabaret - because it is like both a song🎼 and a dance 💃 as you taste it. Very mild and sweet on the front end, and wait, wait, wait for it - a tiny zing of tart at the very last moment. Come see us at Umpqua Valley Farmers' Market this Saturday to try a taste and pick up a jar of this limited varietal. (We will also have Blackberry, Starthistle and Wildflower). See you there!

08/13/2022

LOCAL + RAW 🍯
Wanted to give a sneak peek of honey freshly uncapped and dripping off the honeycomb.
This will be gravity strained and filtered. Never pasteurized, giving you the most pure honey possible!
This week we will have 3 different varietals: Blackberry, Starthistle, and wildflower.
Looking forward to seeing this Sat from 9-1 at the

07/15/2022

It’s here! Blackberry honey 🍯!
We will have Blackberry honey at Umpqua Valley Farmers' Market this Saturday. You’ve been waiting for this delicious honey, so stop by and choose from 1 or 2 pound jars.

Weather plays a HUGE role in whether we are able to harvest each varietal- the spring rains nixed our Blueberry crop- but Blackberries bloom enough later that the abundant rain followed by warm days was perfect for this years’s Blackberry honey.

Light with just the right sweetness to start, it finishes with subtle blackberry notes that honey lovers wait for each summer.
Come try a taste of what makes living in the land of the Umpqua so wonderful!

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06/09/2022

Lighting the smoker at dusk means it’s gonna be a long night. 2 Thermos’ if coffee long. The bees will be waking up to cranberry blooms on the Oregon Coast. The chickens will be wiping the sleep from their eyes as get home. C’mon Cranberry honey 🤞-Let’s go! your beekeeper