We’ll be away for the month of June, so no orders or shop visits until July this summer. We have family elders to spend some sweet time with. Thanks for understanding.

Bee Haven Honey Farm has been making and selling honey in Vermont for over 40 years. Our speciality is an old-world style, true raw honey that’s never heated or filtered. You can trust the honey we sell is always, and only, from our own hives. We also offer a bouquet of other hive, garden and wood’s-sourced natural care products made by hand in small batches with botanicals we grow organically and ethically wild-craft. We’re honored to have home brewers, herbalists, kitchen witches, gardeners, epicureans, rural-livers and old-timers as customers and we’re grateful to have been a part of Vermont’s unique beekeeping history.

As proud winners of the 2022 Black Jar Honey Contest’s Grand Prize for the Best Tasting Honey in the World, we thank the Center for Honeybee Research in Asheville, N.C. for their annual international contest, their work addressing the plight of honeybees and their celebration and promotion of raw honey for its unique and amazing flavor spectrum. See below the swarm for all the FAQ’s on Bee Haven.

How we work: We sell our honey only from our farm in northern-central Vermont. We no longer ship in any quantity. If you’re local or going to be in our area you can place an order with us anytime and pick it up at our farm. Check the Products page to see what’s available and reach out in the message box below to let us know what you want and when you’d like to pick it up. We’ll get back to you to confirm and your order will be waiting when you come.

Coming to the shop: When we’re around in the summer season, we’ll post regular hours for the home shop here and at the top of the Products page. You’re welcome to drop into the shop during these hours. You’re also welcome to reach out if you’d like to make an appt. to visit the shop outside of posted summer hours, or when there aren’t any posted at all, any season of the year. If one of us is around we’re generally happy to accommodate. Just reach out, let us know a day and approx. time you’d like to come and we’ll get back to you.

Sometimes we’re away: Occasionally we take off somewhere and aren’t around. When we’re closed you’ll always find a notice at the top of this page and on the Products page that we aren’t open and doing business. We don’t answer emails during the times when the ‘we’re away’ notice is posted here.

About our mailing list and drive-up honey sales: We maintain a mailing list of customers who receive email invitations to our farm when we’re able to offer our honey in larger bulk amounts ~ one, two and occasionally five gallon buckets. They receive a handful of email from us a season that contain info on the drive up honey sales here for buckets, our summer shop hours and what we’re offering over the holiday season, and other bee business news. It’s the practical stuff, not endless sales notices and exciting opportunities for more of everything all the time. We don’t share our mailing list with others and we honor your privacy as much as we nurture ours. Just reach out if you’d like to be on our mailing list.

How to get our non-honey products shipped to you or a friend: We DO shop our non-honey products within the U.S. Message us below to let us know what you’d like and to whom and where you’d like it shipped to. We’ll get back to you to confirm your order. You pay for USPS Priority Mail shipping and we get your order out carefully and quickly using all recycled packing materials. We’ll send you a tracking # once the package is on its way.

We’re still Covid Cautious: We remain committed to doing what we can to help keep transactions safe for those still concerned and more cautious in this Covid era. As people who experienced early/first wave Long Covid, we understand there are still many people at increased risk who take greater care then many feel is necessary any longer. We’re happy to mask and provide good ventilation for visits and we encourage you to reach out and let us know what else can do to make your time here as comfortable as possible for you. If you’ve made an appt. to come to the shop and we have any illness in our home we’ll reach out to let you know what’s up so you can reschedule or do a pick up order instead. Not exposing others to possible illness when we’re feeling off remains one of the simplest and most meaningful ways we have to take care of each other in these times.

Bee Haven Honey Farm Richard and Genevieve Drutchas 18 Norton Road, Worcester, Vermont, 05682

Directions to our Farm: We're located in Putnamville village, a few miles south of Worcester, right off Rt. 12, in northern-central Vermont, about 8.5 miles, or 15 minutes north of Montpelier. To reach us from there, take Rt. 12/Elm St., north out of town. You’ll drive alongside the river, going uphill for a stretch. You’ll be passing Wrightsville Reservoir on your right, seeing the right hand turn-offs to its boat and water access area, and its beach and recreation area as you head north on your way to us. Continue going straight past these right hand turn offs and soon you’ll be driving over a flat bridge with a river below it, just past the last turn off for Wrightsville. Continue about a mile-ish more through a flat section of woods that will bring you into Putnamville. Take the right turn onto Norton Road once you’re in the village. It’s the only turn in town and it’s a bridge over the North branch of the Winooski river. We're the first house on the other side. A grey farmhouse with white trim with a black mailbox with a bee on it. Be warned, if you follow a GPS system to get to us, it often leads people to somewhere around North or East Bear Swamp Rd. ~ in other words, quite astray form where you set out for.

Message us below: We use the message system below to provide us both with a secure way to reach each other. It means we don’t have to openly list our contact information and all we see is your email address, which is not saved after our messages are exchanged or as part of the workings of this system. Feel free to reach out with questions and comments, to place an order or make an appt. to come to the shop. If you’d prefer to talk in person, let us know in your message and we’ll gladly give you a call at a good time and side step all this computer everything.