JQ Honey

JQ Honey Small town hobby farm located in Harrow, Ontario, Canada producing 100% raw, natural unpasteurized honey.

08/23/2026

Spin, spin, spin! 🍯

The bees have been very busy this season and now we are too.

It’s going to be a big push these next couple of weeks pulling and spinning everything from the field so we can start our fall Varroa treatment plan.

It’s certainly been a busy season for JQ Honey. 3 generations pulling and spinning out that liquid gold 🍯
08/09/2026

It’s certainly been a busy season for JQ Honey. 3 generations pulling and spinning out that liquid gold 🍯

08/01/2026

We’re uncapping and spinning some honey today since there is rain in the forecast.

Quinton is practicing with the uncapping fork while the steam heated uncapping blade warms up to quicken the process.

07/30/2026

I had to attempt a new method for catching a swarm of bees today.

This late season swarm was well out of reach for me so I had to improvise on a way to cut the branch down. It worked surprisingly better than I expected which allowed me to quickly find and cage the queen 🐝

Lots of honey pulled from the field this week. Gotta love the snow white wax cappings. 🍯 🐝
07/18/2026

Lots of honey pulled from the field this week. Gotta love the snow white wax cappings. 🍯 🐝

07/14/2026

🍯 Harvest Time! 🍯

The bees are quickly filling honey supers so we need to ensure they have sufficient space to keep doing so. As soon as these boxes are emptied, they’ll be put back on a hive the same day.

07/12/2026

Hatched Queen Bee Update!

Back in May we saved a couple of unhatched queen cells before the new queen eliminated them. We then installed them into some queenless colonies.

This video shows the progress that one of the queens is making with lots of brood (developing bees) throughout the hive in the various stages (eggs, larva and pupa).

Saving this queen cell turned out to be very successful.

07/05/2026

This past week we experienced extremely high temperatures which resulted in many of our strong colonies bearding and fanning at the hive entrances.

This behavior is to mitigate congestion, improve air circulation, and subsequently reduce the internal hive temperature to protect brood from overheating.

06/25/2026

It’s been a rainy and cloudy morning but the sun is finally out and the bees are all over the Dutch clover in our yards this afternoon.

Hope everyone’s having a great day!

☀️🍀 🐝

06/25/2026

Always fascinating to watch a group of honey bees festooning within the hive…take a look!

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Levergood Drive
Harrow, ON
N0R1G0

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+15199995953

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