Linskens Honey Apiaries

Linskens Honey Apiaries Linskens Honey Apiaries has been producing pure, Wisconsin honey for over 90 years.

Although much has changed through the years, we still incorporate the same core values today that were used when the company was started in the early 1900's. You can find our products at Woodman's, Festival Foods, Simon's Cheese (Kaukauna, WI), the Appleton and Oshkosh Farmers Markets, and Caramel Crisp Cafe & Gift Shop! We also provide honey to local breweries and bakeries as well as many area apple orchards and thrift shops.

10/16/2024
01/28/2024

Update #3 Augie Linskens of Linskens Honey Apiaries, Amazing Honeybee Almond Pollination Journey.
“The Calm Before The Storm”

As Augie mentioned in his last update, hives are graded prior to moving into the almond fields. Hives with a minimum of eight frames of bees or more are rented first and anything less are labeled as “dinks” and brought in as needed. The initial grading was around 92% (best grade yet) and the official certified grading will happen mid-bloom. The broker was just starting to move some hives into orchards until it began to rain on Sunday and continued until Tuesday , dropping almost 2 inches of rain. So now they'll wait a bit for things to dry out before moving more bees into the Orchards. No official update on the bloom status, but that would still be at least a couple weeks away.
The brokers start to move bees into the orchards early to make sure the bees are there in time. As you can imagine, moving 25k hives takes a lot of time. Rumor on the street is growers are paying a little less for hives this year compared to past years. Not for certain, growers may have finally reached a point where they have as many hives as needed. Last year it sounded like they had plenty of bees but as soon as the bloom started, beekeepers were scrambling to find hives to fill their contracts. Some beekeepers may either be overly optimistic with their internal grading, or experience some hive losses, resulting in committing more hives that they actually have.

Cool Bonus Nugget:
Almond pollination season usually starts around Feb. 14 and ends around mid-March. Growers advocate two hives per acre.

01/17/2024

Fighting Cancer with Grace is an amazing nonprofit run by our amazing niece, Grace. Junior Achievement voting is active now to recognize what she’s done - it’s super easy, just click the Junior Achievement post below and LIKE it.

12/09/2023
Happy Pollinator Week!
06/24/2021

Happy Pollinator Week!

Happy Pollinator Week!🐝

Pollinator Week, which runs from June 21 – 27, 2021, highlights the global reach of pollinator health and the steps on how we can protect pollinators.

Celebrate by shopping at and thanking our hard working pollinators and honey vendors at the Saturday Farmers Market!

Shop Linskens Honey Apiaries, Owner of Larry's Honey & Larry's Bee Natural, John and Lorraine's Hobby Honey Farm, and even more this weekend, 7am - Noon on Washington!

Learn more at downtowngreenbay.com/explore/downtown-events/saturday-farmers-market🐝

📸 Shaunae Teske Photography

12/23/2020

While the Merry Bell Keeps Ringing, Happy Honeydays to You...

03/12/2019

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