Price's Arkansas River Honey

09/05/2026

Good use for old plantain salve tins with just a little left in container
Also, another use for comfrey salve.
If you aren’t using comfrey check it out. I have a 2 oz salve. $10

09/03/2026

People ask me a lot if I ever get stung.
Yes, almost ever time I deal with the bees. Does it hurt? Yes, for a minute or two.
But, there is a special kind of pain when I get stung while standing out in the hot sun in a bee suit.
Most of my stings are through my gloves. I have really small hands and it’s hard to find gloves that fit properly.
I typically don’t swell as badly as I used to. I’ve learned to get the plantain salve on quickly.
Just my musings for the day. I’m ready for fall!!!

09/03/2026

There is a reason governments are all moving to make all money "digital."

09/03/2026

Hot honey is ready!
15 oz bottle $24

09/01/2026

08/25/2026

Good info.
Our honey is strained after spinning in the extractor.
No filtering, no heating, nothing added.
No chemical treatments used in the hive.
No feeding of sugar water.

Just pure, raw honey.
Taste the difference!!!
We always appreciate your support!!!!!

At a recent event, we had someone carefully examining several of our jars of honey. He didn’t want to engage in conversation, and soon moved on. Later he came back to our booth and said that our honey looked filtered. We explained that it is not filtered - but it is strained. Here’s the deeper explanation that I wish he had stuck around for:

There’s a huge difference between filtering and straining. Think filtering coffee vs. straining cooked pasta. Filtering removes everything right down to minute particles, straining removes chunky bits.

Minimally straining honey with a stainless steel strainer helps to remove wax cappings, hive debris, and the occasional bee and bee parts. Straining in this manner does not remove pollen from the honey - we want those pollen particles in the honey!

Pollen particles are not always visible to the naked eye. A single pollen grain can range in diameter from approximately 5 to 200 micrometers (or microns). To put this in perspective, the smallest grains of pollen are more than 10 times smaller than the width of the typical human hair. The largest grains of pollen may be twice the width of the typical human hair. So while you may see pollen particles, there is MUCH more than meets the naked eye!

Why is this important? One of the reasons local honey is believed to help fight allergies is due to the pollen particles. Eating pure, raw, local honey may help your body learn to fight the allergens by way of micro-dosing with pollen particulates.

Beekeepers routinely strain their honey coming out of the extractor. If a beekeeper chooses not to use an extractor, they may use the other method of harvesting honey: the crush and strain method. The crush and strain method involves destroying the honeycomb to squeeze out the honey, and straining the honey to remove pieces of beeswax, hive debris, and the occasional bee. Our preference is to use an extractor, in part because it preserves the honeycomb. It takes the bees so much time, effort, and resources to build that comb, we don’t like to destroy it.

08/25/2026

08/24/2026

Thank you to Beth Hughes Carter for creating a logo for me for Rock for the Cure