Honey Farms & Apiaries near Ellington, CT

Coventry

J.B. Hutt Apiary, run by beekeeper John Hutt on Broad Way in Coventry, removes bees from homes and businesses in addition to keeping hives for honey. Honey is sold in limited quantities from the farm stand when available. This is an appointment-only operation — call ahead rather than dropping by.

Tolland

Bee Haven Apiaries bottles wildflower and local honey with no additives, from hives kept on Stag Trail in Tolland. Their honey turns up on shelves at Ellington Agway and a handful of other regional retailers, alongside direct sales from the farm. It's a small, hands-on operation — the beekeeper who capped the jar is the same one who answers the phone.

Coventry

East Hartford

Kirk runs Langford Apiary as a backyard beekeeping business in East Hartford, selling raw, strained, and creamed honey alongside bee nucs and beekeeping supplies. His Carniolan queen-breeding program keeps bees off antibiotics and out of chemically sprayed foraging areas. Kirk answers customer questions directly by phone or email rather than through a shop.

Ludlow

Ludlow

Feeding Hills

Welcome to Mike's Great Honey, where every jar embodies our passion and commitment to purity. Established by local beekeeper Mike over 25 years ago, our journey started with a childhood love for beekeeping, evolving into a cherished family hobby. From our seasonal varieties to our luscious honeycomb, each product mirrors our dedication to freshness and excellence. Delve into our selection of artisanal beeswax candles, luxurious skin creams, and rejuvenating lip balms, and discover the unique dif

Feeding Hills

Welcome to Mike's Great Honey, where every jar embodies our passion and commitment to purity. Established by local beekeeper Mike over 25 years ago, our journey started with a childhood love for beekeeping, evolving into a cherished family hobby. From our seasonal varieties to our luscious honeycomb, each product mirrors our dedication to freshness and excellence. Delve into our selection of artisanal beeswax candles, luxurious skin creams, and rejuvenating lip balms, and discover the unique dif

Simsbury

Hilltop Apiaries has kept bees in the Farmington Valley across three generations, expanding from one backyard hive to eight apiaries around Simsbury. The honey is raw wildflower, never heated, filtered, or blended with imports, and the family also bottles habanero-infused honey, whipped spreads, and jam. Products are True Source Certified and kosher parve, sold through their own site and at Clevelands' Country Store. Order online at hilltopapiaries.com.

Hampton

Adam and Charlene Fuller founded A & Z Apiaries in Hampton in 1980, and the operation now manages around 200 bee colonies across eastern Connecticut. Each spring they bring in 3-pound packages of Italian-Poline crossed queens from Wilbanks Apiaries in Georgia, shipped by climate-controlled transport in under 18 hours.

Farmington

Jones' Apiaries has kept bees in Farmington since 1997, started by Ted and Becky Jones as a family operation. Beyond bottling small-batch honey, they sell beekeeping supplies and each spring offer nucleus colonies and queens to other beekeepers — order early, since colonies typically sell out by late April. The apiary also provides pollination services to area orchards and gardens.

Brookfield

Grimes Apiary — "the sweetest beesiness in Brookfield" — grew from a single hive Donald Grimes bought in 1981 after bee school into a three-generation family business serving central Massachusetts. The honey is 100% pure, native, raw, and unpasteurized, from hive to bottle to you, alongside creamed honey, bee pollen, honey-filled candy, hand creams, lip balm, and beeswax blocks.

Brookfield

What began as Donald Grimes' 1981 hobby hive — bought from legendary Ware beekeeper Frank Lagrant after bee school — is now a three-generation Brookfield apiary whose first harvest of six meager pounds convinced Donald that real raw honey tastes nothing like the store-bought kind. Today the family sells pure wildflower honey, creamed honey, honeybee pollen, honey candy, hand creams, and beeswax at retail spots, fairs, and by call-or-text order around the clock.

Hanover

Stonewall Apiary keeps roughly 350 honeybee colonies scattered across more than a dozen eastern Connecticut towns, from Woodstock down to Mystic. Visitors can book a honey-house tour or a beekeeping presentation by appointment, and the small farm store sells honey and beeswax straight from those hives. Worth noting: GPS routing struggles out here, so the farm posts its own map for directions.

Hanover

Hanover Honey is the retail side of Stonewall Apiary's roughly 350 honeybee colonies spread across eastern Connecticut. The jars range from raw honey to artisanal honeycomb, honey butter, and creamed honey, all untreated and sold through the BuyCTGrown marketplace as well as direct from the farm. Flavor varies jar to jar depending on which forest plants the bees worked that season.