Honey Farms & Apiaries in Connecticut

A & Z Apiaries

Hampton, CT

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.

Bee Haven Apiaries

Tolland, CT

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.

BeeLove Apiaries

Wilton, CT

BeeLove Apiaries keeps one of the larger sets of hives in Wilton, on Sturges Ridge Road, where Ray DuBois produces raw honey and beeswax and teaches beekeeping classes. The operation focuses on pollinator conservation as much as honey production, building out bee sanctuaries alongside the harvest. Current honey stock and class schedules are posted at BeeLove.org.

Hannah's Honey

Monroe, CT

Hannah's Honey keeps bees on Wheeler Road and sells raw honey, honey candy, honey sticks, beeswax candles, honey soap, and beeswax lip balm, along with custom gift baskets. Orders come through the website, local farmers markets, or by phone, with shipping or local pickup available.

Hanover Honey

Hanover, CT

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.

Hilltop Apiaries

Simsbury, CT

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.

J.B. Hutt Apiary

Coventry, CT

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.

Jones' Apiaries

Farmington, CT

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.

Langford Apiary, LLC

East Hartford, CT

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.

Monkey's Pocket Apiary

Fairfield, CT

Monkey's Pocket Apiary is a family-run beekeeping operation in Fairfield that has kept hives for more than 20 years. It sells raw wildflower, clover, buckwheat, and basswood honey with no added flavoring, plus beeswax candles and farm eggs, and also handles live bee swarm removal and relocation.

Red Barn Honey Co

Red Barn Honey Co is listed in Connecticut as a honey producer. No website, market schedule, or contact page turned up online to confirm the apiary's location or the scale of its operation.

Red Bee Apiary

Weston, CT

Marina has kept bees in Weston since 2000 and sells the harvest as Red Bee Apiary: single-origin wildflower and blueberry blossom honey, honeycomb, creamed honey, bee pollen, propolis, and beeswax candles and salves. The property is a private working apiary, opened to the public only for occasional garden tours, talks, and honey tastings. Products ship through redbee.com and sell in specialty shops around Connecticut.

Stonewall Apiary

Hanover, CT

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.

Fieldstone Farm and Apiary

Coventry, CT