Honey Farms & Apiaries near Garden Valley, CA

Camino

Honey Bear Ranch is on Barkley Road in Camino, inside the Apple Hill growing district above Placerville, and is listed locally under both agritourism and honey. No further confirmed details on hive count, honey varieties, or visiting hours.

Shingle Springs

El Dorado Honey bottles raw, unfiltered honey sourced from bee yards across El Dorado County, in the Sierra foothills east of Sacramento. Rather than selling from a single farm stand, the honey moves through more than a dozen regional retailers, including Boa Vista Orchards and Nugget Market. No heat-processing or additives, a standard several small foothill apiaries use to set themselves apart from imported honey blends.

Newcastle

Miller Honey Farms opened its Newcastle operation in 1974 and still sells jars locally at Echo Valley Ranch and Ace Hardware in nearby Auburn, alongside its own honey and mandarins. The Geraldson Road location is part of a larger multi-state beekeeping business, not a single-family roadside operation. Retail hours vary by season — check with local retailers carrying the honey before making a special trip.

Lincoln

Nastase Honey Farm keeps hives on Sego Lane outside Lincoln and bottles what they produce as raw, unfiltered honey, mostly orange blossom and wildflower varietals shaped by the almond and citrus orchards nearby. It's a small, family-run operation — no storefront, no farmers market circuit listed, just honey sold directly from the farm.

Grass Valley

McClaughry Farms Honey keeps bees along Colfax Highway outside Grass Valley, in the Sierra foothills of Nevada County. No current product list or contact details are available online.

Rancho Cordova

Shirak Honey and Orchard Pollination operates out of Olson Drive in Rancho Cordova, in the Sacramento Valley's almond and stone-fruit belt. Beekeeping operations in this region typically split their year between honey production and contract pollination, trucking hives to orchards during almond bloom each February.