Highland Hills Apiary

05/10/2026

looks like I have company at a trap

05/08/2026

June 6th and we will be there with honey, 10 flavors of creamed honey, 5 flavors of hot honey and much much more

🌽🍓 Springfield Farmers Market: By the Numbers🍓🌽

On a typical Saturday, our vendor line up ranges from 35 to 50+ vendors each week with an average of 40 vendors per Saturday.

🥕 Most sell locally grown or locally made food, and you’ll also discover handmade 💎's like pottery, jewelry, crochet items, and more.

Come find your unwind downtown this summer!

🗓️ 28 days until first market

05/08/2026

Checked on a few of our new queens

05/04/2026

8&9. Lots of bees to move. Swarm season keeps you in need if sleep. One in a trap and my second hanging swarm

05/03/2026

We want to thank the many customers that braved the cold and visited the Champaign County Farmers market yesterday! We will miss the market on May 9 but will be back on May 16 honey 🍯 🐝

04/30/2026

Swarms 6&7 today. 7 was my first hanging swarm

04/28/2026

swarm #5. I watched this swarm fly over our house at 4pm and knew they were heading to “chez Stahl luxury apartments”.

04/28/2026

swarm #4. I had to add another 5 frames (15 total) because it was so big. This is the same swarm that was hanging yesterday and I did not have enough equipment so I set this trap 23 hrs prior and got them

04/27/2026

2026 swarm season has been busy. Today I got #3 and there are scouts on at least 7 swarm traps. Also I saw my largest swarm ever. It will be in one of my traps in a day or two

04/24/2026

I was asked to do an interview several months ago and it was published today.

Today we’d like to introduce you to Gregory Stahl. Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started? I retired from Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital as The Endowed and Dis...

04/24/2026

Highland Hills Apiary will be at this event tomorrow! Hope to see you!

Fair warning…our honey inventory is down to 6 half-pound bottles of fall honey and about 4 gallons total of Summer honey (1/2, 1, and 2 pound sizes available). We have limited supplies of hot honey, infused honey and creamed honey.

We hope to harvest 2026 spring honey in mid-June