February 27, 2020
A long day was recently spent in the honey lab sampling dozens of pails of Single Source Honey for our curated Ames Farm Brewers & Distillers Varietal Honey Inventory. This collection of honey has been selected from our reserves for the discriminate mead maker, brewer and distiller.
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September 10, 2019
I feel like I have painted myself into a corner of artisanal honey production that no one else has tried to duplicate, because of the slow and tedious process of extracting one super of honey at a time! Read how this unique approach to producing honey evolved and why its special.
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January 04, 2019
One of the joys of beekeeping is sharing the natural goodness that honeybees create in products like raw honey and pollen, which bees use for their own benefits within the hive. There are also other by-products of life in the hive...
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December 06, 2018
From the honey lover to the foodie to the hard-to-shop-for person on your holiday list, we've got something in store for everyone. While we specialize in single source honey, our online store has every product that we've produced with...
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April 07, 2018
It's the end of winter and that sweet, aromatic jar of natural, raw honey from Ames Farm (or another reputable local apiary) has become grainy and pale. Is something wrong with it? Is it ok to eat? Read on to learn all about what's going on in that jar...
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January 05, 2018
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In its debut episode "Lawyers, Guns, and Honey," a new Netflix-produced show Rotten explores the rise of corruption and profiteering in the honey industry. The beautifully-made documentary not only shows the typical process in the industrial honey production, but...
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June 08, 2017
Honeybees use a wide variety of plants for nectar and pollen sources here in central Minnesota. Looking out my window, I see a plethora of forage for them here on the farm in mid-May. Fruit trees, dandelions, oak trees, honeysuckle, and wild mustard are...
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March 05, 2017
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Many people are enjoying the warmest winter in their entire lifetime, but this one has a different feeling to it for some long-time beekeepers and fruit growers across the northern USA. The seasons are changing rapidly—last year featured the longest growing season...
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February 15, 2017
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Each spring for hundreds of years, beekeepers take advantage of the honeybees' biological urge to expand and grow as winter turns into spring and the bees respond to incoming tree pollen, which allows them to raise new bees and plentiful frames of brood.
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August 03, 2016
The sincerest of thanks to everyone who visited us this season at the farmers markets in Minneapolis. Here is a list of our
Last Markets in 2016. The support for our dream
of delicious artisanal and single source honey products makes for an unforgettable...
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January 05, 2015
Ames Farm proudly supplies honey to many small local businesses. We love learning about their unique projects and creative uses for our honey, and we want to share each wonderful story. One local partner, Bob’s Java Hut, opened in 1994...
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March 25, 2013
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Bernie left few marks on the land after purchasing it in 1959. On the most secluded knoll in the northeast corner of the 40 acres, he planted an orchard of apples trees ringed by borders of majestic white pines. From the road, the ridge of pines...
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