Hummer & Son Honey

Hummer & Son Honey Hummer and Son Honey was started by the late Stanley F. Hummer and son, William S. Hummer, as a 4-H project in 1985. As the years went on, Stanley F.

Hummer built up the company and William Hummer went on to further his education. In 1996, William Hummer graduated from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge with a Bachelor of Science in Urban Pest Management and a minor in Entomology. He is past-president of the Louisiana Beekeepers Association. Upon his return from LSU, Hummer & Son began to pack their honey for retail sale. Hummer & Son no

w produces and packs over 50,000 lbs of pure Louisiana honey a year for businesses in North Louisiana, Southern Arkansas and East Texas. Our honey is clover, rattan, peppervine, aster, and many other small blooming flora. Hummer & Son has won several 1st place honey awards at the Louisiana State Fair. We also offer beekeeping supplies to beekeepers throughout the South. We are currently a Mann Lake Ltd. Dealer that handles a full line of specialty products. Please e-mail us for the information you need, and we can get you started in beekeeping or enhance your current line of professional supplies.

Once the cappings are removedwe melt it down to produce blocks of pure bees wax.
08/15/2026

Once the cappings are removed
we melt it down to produce blocks of pure bees wax.

Busy week extracting honey and getting boxes ready for storage. This year production has been below average but there ...
08/15/2026

Busy week extracting honey and getting boxes ready for storage. This year production has been below average but there is always next year for that bumper crop!

Out checking colonies today and they are looking good for such a poor production year. They are hard at working making ...
08/06/2026

Out checking colonies today and they are looking good for such a poor production year. They are hard at working making winter bees now because soon it will be cold and we need good healthy bees to take them through the fall and winter.

Shreveport Farmers' Market is have breakfast on us day. Come down and try some Mahaffey Farms chicken smothered in Hum...
07/31/2026

Shreveport Farmers' Market is have breakfast on us day. Come down and try some Mahaffey Farms chicken smothered in Hummer & Son Honey Bar Bee Que Sauce. Yum Yum!

TOMORROW at the Shreveport Farmers' Market we are serving FREE BBQ CHICKEN samples!

We are teaming up with our booth neighbor Hummer & Son Honey to give out free samples of our pastured chicken with a generous portion of their famous honey barbecue sauce!!

07/26/2026

Here is a great article written by Jill Pickett for the The Shreveport-Bossier City Advocate. She came and documented us pulling honey from an apiary. She has written other stories of agriculture businesses here for a series of articles.

From a far we can see the beekeepers pulling honey from an apiary across the road from the Honey House. Like wild animal...
07/21/2026

From a far we can see the beekeepers pulling honey from an apiary across the road from the Honey House. Like wild animals don't disturb them as they are wild and hot.

07/11/2026

The Dadant 60 frame extractor starting up to sling the honey out of the frames. Watch as it speeds up and you can see the honey hit the sides of the tank and run down to the drain which flows into a sump to help clarify the honey before it is pumped into the holding tanks.

07/11/2026

A brief tour of the honey house in operation. you can see the frames getting cleaned to remove all the golden honey from the frames.

Just when you think everything is good you notice honey on the floor. We use this machine to cut to capping off the fra...
07/11/2026

Just when you think everything is good you notice honey on the floor. We use this machine to cut to capping off the frames and the wax and honey fall into the extruder which squeezes the honey out of the wax. The machine was separating because the bolts were backwards. malfunction.

07/09/2026

The season has started. Today we are extracting the small yard to check equipment.

Address

287 Sligo Road
Bossier City, LA
71112

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

Telephone

+13187423541

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