LET'S TELL YOU ABOUT 100% ONTARIO HONEY

100% Ontario Honey

The Ontario Beekeepers' Association (OBA) wants to let you know a very BIG secret! Ontario Bees and Ontario Beekeepers produce some of the best honey in the world and it's available to you through our OBA members and retail stores in Ontario that support local beekeepers. Look for the new 100% Ontario Honey Logo to ensure you are getting quality 100% Ontario Honey.

The story behind 100% Ontario Honey

Ontario Beekeepers are dedicated and hard working.  It takes a lot of work to produce the quality Ontario Honey for you to use besides getting the product to market. Traditionally, beekeepers sold at ‘farm-gate' (right from the farm), at the local market or maybe through a local retail grocery store.  Beekeepers still do this, but some also sell through the internet and specialty stores.  Ontario beekeepers also provide large amounts of honey to the food processing industry.

You will find more than Honey!  Besides just blended regular honey you can find honey that has unique flavouring such as clover, alfalfa, summer blossom, lavender and many more. Honey can be in liquid form, creamed or in honey combs. There are also a vast amount of honey ‘value-added' products that you can find.  Soaps, balms, candles, bee pollen...the list is long. 

Beekeepers in Ontario have been challenged in recent years to bring their quality product to you, the consumer.  Rising costs of production, winter hive loss and importation of lower cost honey produced in other countries have made it difficult for the beekeeper to stay in business.  OBA has assisted Ontario beekeepers with marketing and research but in 2007 the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) helped OBA out.  With OMAFRA's support OBA has been able to support additional marketing and research. 

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