Hampton Honey Farm

01/03/2026

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11/21/2025

It's that time of year again.

Mesquite Honey.

10/27/2025

The humble honeybee may seem small, but they’re mighty travelers in their own right. Did you know that to produce a single pound of honey, a colony of bees needs to collectively fly approximately 55,000 miles? That’s equivalent to orbiting around the Earth twice!

Fun Fact: They visit around 2 million flowers in this process. So, next time you savor a spoonful of honey, remember the incredible journey it took to get to your table.

06/05/2025

Interesting Bee Facts:

A honeybee has to travel over 55,000 miles and visits approximately 2 million flowers to make 1 pound of honey.
A honeybee can fly approximately 15 miles per hour.
Honeybees are the only insect that produce food for humans.
Honey is the ONLY food that includes all the substances necessary to sustain life, including water.
Honey is the only form of sugar that does not need to be refined.
A typical beehive makes more than 400 pounds of honey per year.
Approximately 7-8 pounds of honey are consumed by bees to produce 1 pound of beeswax.
Honeybees are a great scientific mystery because they have remained unchanged for 20 million years even though the world has changed around them.
Honeybees will usually travel approximately 3 miles from their hive.
When a bee finds something that will be of significance to the hive (like a new food source), it returns to its hive and it dances! This little "waggle dance" is telling all the other bees exactly where the food source is, from the direction and distance it is in relation to the hive, right down to the angle it is at in relation to the sun. Even when the bee dances for hours, he changes the direction and the amount of waggles he does per cycle in relation to the sun's movements so he is still telling the other bees exactly where the item is, even though it is a different time of day.
A single honeybee will only produce approximately 1/12 teaspoon of honey in her lifetime.
A worker bee visits between 50-100 flowers on each trip.
A honeybee will flap its wings about 11,400 times per minute creating the "buzz" that you hear.
Honeybees are the only bees that die after they sting.
Honeybees are entirely herbivorous when they forage for nectar and pollen, but can cannibalize their own brood when stressed.
Honey is a natural antibiotic; it speeds the healing process and combats infections.
Honey never spoils.
It would take about 1 ounce of honey to fuel a honeybee's flight around the world.
Honeybee colonies have unique odors that members flash like ID cards at the hive's front door, so the guard bees can recognize the entering bees.
Honeybees are responsible for approximately 80% of all fruit, vegetable and seed crops in the U.S

02/02/2025

12/10/2024

You can find our honey at the Hawaiian Fluid Art store at the Tucson Premium Outlets at Marana Center. Directly across from the Nike Store. Go check it out next time you are shopping and let them know how good it is. ;)

11/26/2024

8 oz. gift jars are ready for Christmas.

Mesquite Flavor.

We have 32 oz. and 16 oz. jars back in stock as well.

03/15/2024

Lucky Mesquite Honey

The word on the street is that St. Patrick loves it.

01/20/2024

I made some Fermented Garlic Honey.

Making a batch of fermented honey garlic is one of the best things you can do to get ready for the upcoming cold and flu season. A little bit goes a long way in boosting your immune system!

Raw honey and garlic are well known for their immune-boosting properties and the best part is that you likely already have both on hand making this super easy to whip up.

This recipe is about as easy as it gets. First you need a lot of garlic. How much? Well, 15 to 20 cloves. That’s about two heads of garlic. You could do less and get plenty of garlic flavor, but it tastes better with more.

Add the garlic cloves to a clean jar. Then, cover with raw honey. It is important to use raw honey for this recipe or it will not ferment. It takes about 4 to 6 weeks to ferment but I was eating some in the first week. Keep an eye on the jar for the first few days. Give it a shake once a day to make sure the garlic is covered in the honey. Also, open the jar once a day to “burp” it and let off any built-up gas. Exploding honey jars aren’t fun. When you combine fresh garlic and raw honey, you get this magical fermented garlic honey that’s perfect for drizzling on pizza, fried chicken, grilled pork, and by the spoonful just as is.

Both garlic and raw honey have been used in medicinal preparations for thousands of years. Garlic has been found in Egyptian pyramids and honey has been traced as far back as Stone Age paintings.

Garlic was even given to Olympic athletes in Greece to improve their performance – neat, huh? Both garlic and raw honey have a multitude of health benefits as you’ll see below.

Once you combine them into my fermented honey garlic concoction, you’ll be able to kick any illness!

Garlic – Garlic has powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties while preventing cancer, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, lipid abnormalities, metabolic disorders, skin, bone, and other common diseases (Ansary, 2020).
Raw honey – Contains potent flavonoids and phenolic acids that have anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-microbial, anti-cancer, and anti-diabetic effects. It also serves to protect the cardiovascular, respiratory, and digestive systems (Cianciosi, 2018).

01/02/2024

The Queen Rules