Kellie Honey Farm

Kellie Honey Farm We sell raw unfiltered honey in various size containers from one pound to 55 gallon drums. We produce a high quality NATURAL honey.

Our honey is not filtered like large bottling companys. We leave in all nutrients and pollens in our honey creating what is known as Raw honey. It is heated very little so all enzymes will not be ruined. Over 44 years of profesional experience in honey production, Queen breeding, Nuc production. Pricing:

1lb jar- $8
3lb jar- $20
5lb jar- $ 28
For buckets and barrels please call
(620)-285-6451

We started the official harvest on Monday. The bees are looking good. It is 94 degrees in our extracting room and we ar...
09/01/2026

We started the official harvest on Monday. The bees are looking good. It is 94 degrees in our extracting room and we are having some nice looking frames coming through today. We pulled double duty today extracting, plus bottling honey, and starting to store buckets of honey. Barrels will be last. We will be labeling honey this evening when it will be cooler. Harvest has always been fast and furious but still fun. We will be at it for a couple of weeks.

Harvest began this Morning. Hot room is full, first frame down. Extractors are running and I was able to catch the h...
08/10/2026

Harvest began this Morning. Hot room is full, first frame down. Extractors are running and I was able to catch the honey being pumped into the tank. First pull will be the yards with irrigation. Dry land is pretty much scorched. We will be moving bees to get them out of the starvation areas and continue to hope for rain.

We have been out of service for sometime. My phone decided to go on strike. It took awhile but the decision was that is ...
08/03/2026

We have been out of service for sometime. My phone decided to go on strike. It took awhile but the decision was that is was a goner. So I have a new one. As a result here are some pictures of July activities. Explanation in the pics.
Our bees in a north county will not be making much honey because of lack of rain in that area along with Dicamba ( a controversial vegetation spray that was banned, then released again by our government) is being used again. Real beekeeping good or bad.

The truck is unloaded and it says 110 degrees. Time to go inside. The frames are mostly capped and Harvest is near.
07/27/2026

The truck is unloaded and it says 110 degrees. Time to go inside. The frames are mostly capped and Harvest is near.

We will be closed tell Tuesday for the Fourth of July celebration. FYI throw back Thursday. That young college kid wit...
07/02/2026

We will be closed tell Tuesday for the Fourth of July celebration. FYI throw back Thursday. That young college kid with a guitar is very young Mr. Beekeeper in front of our great flag.

This week has been lots of rain, mud and clouds. I enjoyed it. Monday was delivery day. Our inside work continues and ...
06/26/2026

This week has been lots of rain, mud and clouds. I enjoyed it. Monday was delivery day. Our inside work continues and it seems never ending. Today was down into the office to a pile on the desk, catching up on the latest scientific information from the Honey Bee Health , a list of articles from the bee journals, then try not to be restless inside and end up in a bee yard toward the end of the day. All these years and there is still so much to learn and discover.

We finished our last yard adding supers. Nectar is finally starting to be stored. One can tell by the whitening of the...
06/19/2026

We finished our last yard adding supers. Nectar is finally starting to be stored. One can tell by the whitening of the comes. It was pretty warm one day this week and the bees had their AC running by having water placed in droplets through the hive. At the entrance there are bees using their wings to bring air into the hive and bees on the other side of the entrance drawing air out. This is also close to the summer solstice. I find all our hives that have issues, and will not likely make it through winter. One way to tell is the brood pattern. The queen is old and failing so we have new queens to introduce plus I make a few splits and add new queens to them. I am mostly completed with outside work again for a couple of weeks. The rest of today I am reading the book “Bitter Honey”. Which is a look at big Ag, commodity farming, and how it affects bees and our food. Oh and maybe the left hand could be more important this warm day.

Some times beekeeping involves everything but beekeeping your colonies. Monday I was called to a COOP to catch a swarm ...
06/05/2026

Some times beekeeping involves everything but beekeeping your colonies. Monday I was called to a COOP to catch a swarm that had decided the side of the elevator was a good place to be. I rounded them up and moved them in the night to one of my yards. ( bees can’t see to fly at night and they will stay with the hive when moving them).
I worked with several hobby beekeepers the next two days including installing a new queen. I also was able to inspect a Layens hive with a new beekeeper. The bees were calm and were progressing along nicely. Today was spent in one of my own yards but not inspecting my bees. The last storm that went through blew over a dead tree, and heavy limbs off another tree which blocked the drive in. I brought the heavy equipment to move the giant limbs. The dead tree had fallen all around one of my hive but missed a direct hit. So the chainsaw came out to cut limbs, then I could pickup the main trunk with my Bobcat. Sadly I will miss NEKBA FUNDAY Saturday in Lawrence. There are national speakers and many friends I love to be with during the day. Last year I was speaker and I was looking forward to this year just learning and listening. Mother Nature has been on a rampage this spring and my attention to the bees take priority. There is always next year.

This week I spent a lot of time just before day break or sunrise moving colonies into our last pollination yard. I have...
05/29/2026

This week I spent a lot of time just before day break or sunrise moving colonies into our last pollination yard. I have been pollinating crops on this farm each summer for several years now. Approximately 18 billion dollars worth of crops, vegetables, and fruits are pollinated by honey bees in the US each year. Last but not least , I enjoyed watching rain falling in an actual mud puddle. It’s a good start.

Mother Nature in western Kansas can be very fickle. With no rain for sometime now, our bees suddenly became in danger o...
05/15/2026

Mother Nature in western Kansas can be very fickle. With no rain for sometime now, our bees suddenly became in danger of starving. We were ready just in case and began feeding them. This is a rarity for us this time of year. The drought is effecting everything farming and we need rain desperately. This week found me greeting the sun coming up as we moved bees out of the winter yards. Today Mrs beekeeper went one way by being at the farmers market for Pawnee valley Hospital. I went the other way checking our bee yards for a nectar flow. As you look at the pictures of the bees closely you will see some with no whitening of the comb meaning the area is still absent of anything blooming. Other hives, one can look closely and see whitening of combs. One hive even had excess nectar being stored in the upper supers. I stopped to check a clover field and an Alfalfa field and found some bloom. Unfortunately with zero rain both were empty of nectar and had no aroma. We are staying vigilant watching or bees closely.

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304 W 12th Street
Larned, KS
67550

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(620) 285-6451

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