This week, we’ve got a quick & simple recipe to brighten up any summery salads you’re serving. This honey vinaigrette is subtle enough to complement your salad or sandwich without overpowering its other flavors. Balsamic vinegar’s potent acidity brings out the floral nuances in any of our raw...

Southern California is home to some of the most hospitable and inhospitable places in the world – the balmy weather of L.A. and the blistering heat of nearby Death Valley. But covering acres and acres of this prime real estate are farms and wildflowers that are just begging for bees to pay them a...

This rich, fluffy dessert makes the absolute most of its unique flavors: orange, ginger, browned butter and raw & unfiltered honey. This Orange Ginger Honey Cake is a far cry from your typical birthday cake. Since it’s sweetened with honey instead of sugar, you’ll get a memorable, nuanced swe...

A bee’s brain weighs in at just 0.0002% of a human’s, so why is it worth our time to study it? Because bees are much, much smarter, both individually and as a hive, than their little brains let on. The bee brain only contains about a million neurons, while humans have about 100 billion. Somehow, ...

In the last few weeks, our beekeepers got some new competition. Morgan Freeman – the acclaimed actor, director, philanthropist and now beekeeper – has converted his 124-acre Mississippi ranch into a bee sanctuary, helping to put dwindling bee populations in the spotlight. Turns out, Freeman has b...

With April Fool’s Day just on the other side of this weekend, we’re going to share some bee facts you would have to be a total FOOL to believe. As in, they’re totally foolish and not at all factually accurate. We know a thing or two about raw & unfiltered honey because we’ve been making honey...

As of Wednesday, spring is officially here, and with spring, comes flowers, and with flowers, come bees! Beekeeping requires year-round work, but things really shift into gear in the spring as bees emerge from their long winter’s nap and start the mad dash to begin building up their honey stores....

Here at Local Hive, we work hard to produce a wide variety of raw & unfiltered honeys from local beekeepers across the U.S. That means reviewing the quality of each batch of honey received and always maintaining pure, raw & unfiltered honey from hive to home. Creating a single brand that ...

After 38 years, the world’s largest bee has been rediscovered, alive and buzzing, among the Indonesian islands known as the North Moluccas. Where exactly? We can’t tell you, because a single specimen can sell for over $9,000, making the world’s largest bee one of the world’s most valuable and vul...

With Mardi Gras just days away, we’re heating up a tempting New Orleans classic: warm, flaky beignets, just like the ones served at Café du Monde, Café Beignet and the many other patisseries (French bakeries) throughout New Orleans. Dubbed the “official state doughnut” of Louisiana, these light a...

This Whipped Honey Butter recipe is the perfect way to work any of our raw and unfiltered honeys into your favorite dishes. In just five minutes, you can sweeten a snack or meal with plenty of 100% pure and delicious honey flavor and a creamy, gourmet whipped topping. Scones, pancakes, toast, san...

After decades of producing raw and unfiltered honey, we’ve learned a thing or two about bees. In fact, keeping authentic honey pure, and the flowers that help make that honey properly pollinated, requires intimate knowledge of bees: what flowers bees like, what weather bees love, and even how bee...

There’s no limit to the ways honey can mix things up in the morning. With this recipe, honey becomes the perfect complement to your cup of morning joe. It starts with a honey-lavender syrup that’s right at home in an iced latte or even hot tea. You’ll want to refrigerate any that’s left over, bec...

As native Coloradoans, we’re a little extra proud of our Colorado honey. Just like each of our 17 varietals, it’s raw, unfiltered and made by bees and keepers on their own home turf. In this case, it just so happens to be right in our backyard, with pollens all throughout the state of Colorado. O...

With the new year upon us, it’s open season for all sorts wellness mumbo-jumbo and fad-diet fanaticism. You may have heard about cutting sugar by replacing it with any number of substitutes, but there’s only one that we can wholeheartedly recommend: raw and unfiltered honey. In the spirit of soun...