Quail and Hound Farms

04/13/2026

04/04/2026

On April 12, Dale City's Spring and Summer Farmers' Market will open. Come and visit Morgan to buy your favorite honey, spices, and home and health products.

Can't make it to Dale City? Come by our farm shop in Middleburg and get your products there.

03/28/2026

Spring has sprung on the farm. We're busy working, planting, delivering honey, but the shop is open. Come on by and pick up your favorite honey and spices.

03/27/2026

🌼🐝 Every dandelion is a lifeline.
Before you spray, take a moment — that tiny yellow flower could be feeding over 100 hungry bees today.
Pollinators keep our gardens blooming, our food growing, and our ecosystems alive. Choosing not to spray is a small act… but it makes a BIG difference.
Let the dandelions bloom. Let the bees thrive. Let nature do its thing. 💛🌿
If you care about pollinators, share this and spread the reminder across America. 🇺🇸🐝

03/26/2026

Can't wait to watch this next Tuesday.

03/25/2026

Some of the possible health benefits associated with adding honey to your diet.

03/25/2026

Another yummy springtime recipe. Try this refreshing lemonade.

03/24/2026

Now that spring is here and we're back to life in our garden, this is one of my favorite recipes that beautifully unlocks the vibrant colors and essence of fresh basil and tomatoes from our garden. I know many of you grow your own tomatoes too, so don't hesitate to try it out and let us know what you think.

03/24/2026

Purple honey looks unreal, like it shouldn’t exist.
But it comes straight from the hive that way.

The detail that keeps beekeepers guessing is what actually turns it purple…

In North Carolina’s Sandhills, the landscape is built on sandy, mineral-rich soil shaped by fire and time. Longleaf pine forests dominate, and the plants beneath them shift with each season, pulling different elements from the ground.

Some years, bees gather nectar that produces a deep violet honey. Other years, from the same area, the color never appears at all.

One leading idea is that certain plants like gallberry absorb trace minerals, subtly changing the chemistry of their nectar. Another is that something inside the bees themselves alters the compounds during the honey-making process.

Even hives placed just a short distance apart can produce completely different results.

That inconsistency is the real mystery. It cannot be predicted, replicated, or scaled.

It shows up briefly, then disappears again without explanation.

Some of nature’s rarest things are not hidden. They just refuse to happen twice the same way.

03/21/2026

Happy 1st Day of Spring!!!

While many people look for “USDA certified organic” honey, it’s important to understand that true certification is not feasible in most cases. Honeybees naturally forage across a wide radius—often up to five miles—making it impossible to guarantee that every plant they visit has been grown using certified organic practices. Because of this, there is no practical way to fully certify honey as organic under USDA standards. That said, we are committed to the highest natural beekeeping practices: we use only natural methods to care for our hives, and our honey is never micro-filtered, heated, or pasteurized. What you get is exactly as the bees made it—100% pure, raw, and unfiltered honey.

12/13/2025

Don't forget to stop by the Dale City Farmers' Market to get your favorite stocking stuffer and hostess gifts. There's also still time to order online.