About this map

FindHoneyLocal is a directory of people who sell honey from their own hives: backyard beekeepers with a few colonies, and apiaries and honey farms with a shop, a market table or store accounts. It is free to search and free to list on, and it takes no part in any sale.

What's here right now

312 listings across 46 states, 41 of them backyard beekeepers. So far we added every one of them ourselves; none has been submitted by a seller yet. 91 show a street address, and 35 post a price per pound. Large parts of the country have nothing on the map yet.

Where the listings come from

There are two sources, and every listing page says which one it is.

Added by us. An empty map is no use to anyone, so we started this one from beekeepers' own websites and from state beekeepers' and farm directories. A seller went on the map only if one of those pages showed them selling honey at the time, and we recorded only what that page said: what kinds of honey, the price, where to buy, and a street address only when the seller publishes one for buyers. Anything the page didn't say is left blank and shown as "ask the seller". We have not spoken to any of them.

Submitted by the seller. Any beekeeper can list through the form. A person reads each submission before it appears, to keep out spam and nonsense. That review is not verification: nobody visits, inspects or tests the honey.

If a listing we added is yours, submitting it under the same name sends your version to the same review, and once approved it replaces ours.

What we don't do

This is a small independent site run by a couple of people. The person who reads submissions checks that they look like a real beekeeper; nobody inspects hives or tastes the honey.
"Raw", the floral sources and the description are the seller's own words, or a plain summary of their website. No standard defines raw honey for these listings, and nobody here tests a jar to check it.
We make no health claims about honey, and listings that make them are edited or turned down.
No listing is paid, promoted or sponsored. Nobody can buy a position. Results sort by distance when you search and alphabetically when you don't.
No payments pass through the site, and we take no commission.
We don't rate or review sellers, because we have no honest basis for doing it.

How addresses are handled

Many honey sellers are households with a few hives in the back garden, so nobody is asked for a street address. Sellers who publish one for buyers, such as a honey house with a shop, can add it, and we then show it with links that open it in Google Maps or Apple Maps. Everyone else shows only their town and ZIP code.

Either way, the pin on our map sits at the middle of the seller's ZIP code, not on the house, because we don't convert street addresses into map points. Ask the seller where to pick up.

If you use the "Near me" button, your browser asks permission and the coordinates stay in your browser to sort the list. Searching by ZIP sends only that ZIP to our server.

Listings go stale

Small beekeepers sell out before the next harvest, lose hives over winter, move or stop. Every listing shows how long ago it was listed, and ones older than about six months carry a warning. Nothing here is a live inventory, so message the seller before a long drive.

Corrections and removals

Sellers can correct a listing by submitting it again under the same name. To have a listing taken down, or to tell us a seller has stopped, use the contact page. A person reads every message.