Catlin Honey

01/16/2026

Monitoring the girl’s winter honey stores. Can you tell who needed supplemental food already?

01/16/2026

Monitoring the girls winter honey stores. Can you tell who needed supplemental food already?

11/08/2025

Butner Stem Elementary today! 10-2pm

11/02/2025

Catlin Honey will be sold Saturday the 8th, at the Butner Stem Elementary School Fall Festival! Come, have fun and take home something SWEET!

10/19/2025

Thank you, Michelle Fox, for inviting me to share about BEES at Epworth Preschool! What a fun morning! Students performed a waggle dance and dressed as queen bees, drones, nurse bees, building bees, house keeping bees and foragers with full Pollen Pants!!!

07/31/2025

07/31/2025

We are pleased to announce that the 2025 honey harvest at Catlin Honey Apiary is complete. This season, our hardworking bees produced 15 gallons of honey, and were awarded a First Place ribbon at the 2025 North Carolina State Beekeepers Summer Meeting.
Our raw wildflower honey,certified by the NCSBA, is now available for purchase in 1-pound jars for $18 each.
Looking ahead, we’re excited to share that bourbon barrel-aged honey will be available in the spring of 2026.
Thank you for supporting our apiary!

07/13/2025

The bees in Stem, NC at Catlin Honey Apairy produced blue ribbon honey: 1st place at the North Carolina Beekeeper Association Summer 2025 State meeting!

06/09/2025

The Catlin Honey Apiary is small but the bees are strong! 6 modest hives produced their winter reserves plus 15 gallons to share!

04/19/2025

Swarm entering a Swarm trap! More bees to send to Western NC, replacing those lost in the floods.

04/14/2025

Just in case you were sitting on pins and needles waiting to hear if the attempt at creating two new hives for Western North Carolina was successful….it was! Yesterday, each hive was moved from a queen castle to their own hive. See comments for a video of one hive, marching from their old to the new home, following the scent of their queen