Honey Farms & Apiaries in Alabama

Bill's Honey Farm

Meridianville, AL

Bill's Honey Farm has sold local honey since 1975, when Bill Mullins started the operation; his sons Todd and Ted run it today. The Meridianville farm sells raw honey, bee pollen, cut comb, and beeswax candles in more than 60 varieties, and hosts homeschool tours and candle-making classes by request. It runs on an honor system for after-hours buyers: take what you need, leave cash in the box.

Central Alabama Honey & Apiary, LLC

Alabaster, AL

Central Alabama Honey & Apiary started as David Willis's hobby before growing into a network of hives spread across Shelby County. The Alabaster operation sells raw, unfiltered honey along with beeswax candles, lip balm and honey-oatmeal soap in stores around Birmingham. Willis also runs a swarm removal service, relocating unwanted honeybee colonies into hive boxes instead of exterminating them, with a stated 90-95% survival rate.

Coastal Honey Farm

Lillian, AL

The Green family has kept bees in Lillian since 1956, when Matt Green's father Irving 'Pete' Green started the hives that became Coastal Honey Farm. The farm sells wildflower and orange blossom honey alongside infused varieties like habanero, elderberry and chocolate, plus honey lip balm, from a farm stand on County Road 91 and at festivals around South Baldwin County.

D & D Apiaries

Opp, AL

D & D Apiaries keeps hives on Highfill Lane in Opp, a Covington County town in Alabama's Wiregrass region. The listing points to a honey operation, but no working website confirms products sold or how to buy direct.

Foxhound Bee Company

Birmingham, AL

The People Behind Foxhound Bee Company What started as one hive in 2012 for the owner, Adam Hickman, has developed into a full-service beekeeping supply company based in Birmingham, Alabama. Just like our bees, we are small (though we like to punch above our weight), and we love their hardworking, never-say-never, keep your nose to the flower passion. Despite being a certified Master Beekeeper, Adam has made plenty of beekeeping mistakes. They type of mistakes that make your heart sink, like whe

Judy Bee's Honey And Berry Farm

Judy Bee's Honey and Berry Farm is a u-pick blueberry and blackberry farm in Mount Olive run by local beekeepers, who also sell raw honey harvested on-site. It's a smaller, family-scale operation rather than a big commercial patch — call ahead before visiting, since the farm has had seasons where picking wasn't open to the public.

Shelby Crossings Bee Farm

Alabaster, AL

Shelby Crossings Bee Farm keeps hives on Bermuda Lake Drive in Alabaster, a Shelby County city south of Birmingham. The name points to honey as the product; no further details on varieties or sales are published online.

Sweetgum Ridge Apiaries

Sweetgum Ridge Apiaries manages more than 35 hives on a 70-acre farm along the Alabama River in Lowndesboro, run by Kate and Ralph. Beyond raw honey and beeswax, they sell nucleus hives and queens each spring and raise free-range chickens for eggs.

Viridian Ridge Emotional Boot Camp and Bee Farm

Gurley, AL

Viridian Ridge combines two things under one roof on Hurricane Creek Road near Gurley: an emotional boot camp program and a working bee farm, in the ridge-and-valley country of northeast Madison County. No public details on honey sales, hours, or program enrollment are posted — contact them directly.

Jimmy Carmack Co. Pure Alabama Honey

Center Point, AL