Bee Haven is now closed, for good. The last honey crop has been taken and is all sold. There are so many delicious honeys out there and so many beautiful roads to explore finding them. We hope you enjoy the pursuit.

It’s been an honor to have played a part in Vermont’s unique beekeeping history. To have been proud winners of the Black Jar Honey Contest’s Grand Prize for the Best Tasting Honey in the World in 2022 was extra-special frosting on the cake. We extend our hearty thanks to the Center for Honeybee Research in Asheville, N.C. for their annual international contest, their work addressing the plight of honeybees and their celebration of raw honey. To have known the old time beekeepers and their ways and to see where we are today is a contrast that is sometimes hard to believe.

Bee Haven hit 50 years old in the 2025 year. A good time for endings and new beginnings. It resided on the unceded territory of the Western Abenaki ~ a group of Native American Algonquian-speaking peoples, part of the larger Wabanahkik, (wah-bah-NAH-keek), the Peoples of the Land of the Dawn, a territory that includes areas of Quebec, the Canadian Maritimes, New Hampshire and upstate New York. The Abenaki people were a part of the Wabanaki Confederacy, which involved Passamaquoddy, Malecite, and Micmac communities. We recognize the original native people’s sovereignty and superior stewardship of these lands, as well as the sovereignty of the land and waters themselves. The Wabanahkik lived in them for over 10,000 years without causing the harm and desecration it took our contemporary western culture about 100 years to cause. We pray for, vote for and act for a future on earth when the sovereignty of the land and waters is recognized by all peoples as the most important value to uphold and when their continuance is the driving force of all we do and don’t do as humans on this amazing planet.

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