Shop — North Island Apiaries

What sets our honey apart

We never use chemical “treatments” or miticides of any kind. We rely on natural selection, and management practices to keep our bees healthy snd strong. Our hives are free of residues, plastics, and fumigants. What you taste is unfiltered and unheated — raw, living honey with all of its enzymes, pollens, and floral vitality intact.
We follow natural beekeeping principles: no plastic foundation, no artificial queen rearing, no migratory trucking. Our hives stay put on the island, sheltered from the stresses of industrial pollination.
Our bees live entirely on the nectar and pollen they gather themselves. We never feed sugar. They thrive on their own stores of honey — the food nature made for them — and it shows in the depth of flavor and vitality of our colonies.
We take only the true surplus. This is honey made without exploitation — never robbed, never rushed. Every spoonful is a gift from the hive, not an extraction from it.
Island bees visit hundreds of native and naturalized wildflowers — from clover and milkweed to goldenrod, bayberry, and wild rose. Each bloom contributes a layer of flavor and nutrition. No two seasons taste the same.
Our honey is never overheated, or pasteurized. We simply strain it to remove bits of wax and let it settle naturally. It’s alive with wild yeasts, enzymes, and pollen — a true whole food, not a processed sweetener.
We keep around 100 colonies — just enough to sustain our land and our family. We rely on splits from our hives to grow our apiary, not buying bees in from southern states every year. Our focus is on resilience, not yield.
We bottle only in glass, to preserve flavor and purity. No plastic contact, no leaching, no compromise.
Each jar of North Island Gold carries the fingerprint of this island landscape: mud flats, salt air, spruce forest, and wildflowers. It’s honey that could only have come from here — pure, elemental, unrepeatable.