Local Honey from New Jersey

Tassot Apiaries, Inc., a family run business located in New Jersey manages bee hives on many parcels and farmlands throughout the Morris and Hunterdon County areas. They are specialized in raw, local, chemical free high quality honey, as well as pure beeswax items. Their products are sold at their farm and several farmers’ markets. They are also available through a network of retailers and farm stands. Their prize winning honey is raw, only strained, not filtered, and not heated.

Great news: Farmers' Market are reopening but...

Jean-Claude and Bea, our local beekeepers. Farmers’ Markets are reopening all over, with local growers selling their own produces…but what about honey and honey bees’ products?

Everybody is observing the declining number of pollinators and many of you are often asking: “What can we do to reverse that?”

I always had the same answers:

1- Avoid the usage of pesticides.

2- Plant or seed flowers.

3- Buy local honey.

Now, after visiting some local farmers’ markets, I have to add a warning to my third answer.

Buy local honey from beekeepers you know, or with their name on the bottles.

I see too many “farmers” labeling unknown origin honey with their name on it and some are so unscrupulous that they are also pretending that the beehives on their property are theirs when they are renting them for pollination purposes.

When you buy at Farmers’ Markets, ask yourself the following questions:

Will I buy tomatoes with barcodes on them?

Are bananas or pineapples growing in New Jersey, Pennsylvania or New York?

How come those farmers, who know absolutely nothing about honey bees, pretend to be seasoned beekeepers?

Do not hesitate to ask questions, there is no stupid question! If the answers seem not clear enough do not buy from this place.

Support our environment, support your local beekeepers, buy local honey with real beekeepers’ name on the bottles.

Jean-Claude Tassot

Beekeeper and owner of Tassot Apiaries, Inc.