Stick Season has arrived and several frosty nights ended the picking season last month. But the farm store will be open on Saturday 11/16 from 10-2.

The store will be open on the below dates going forward for sales of raw honey (see below), frozen blueberries, Patricia’s famous low-sugar jam, local syrup, Vermont-made soy candles, and Vermont-themed cookbooks. We have twenty different vintages of honey in stock including several 2024 Fall honeys–Aster, Knotweed, and a Goldenrod honey we’re calling “Old Gold ’24”, from right here in Granville, VT!

This is when and where you get find us coming up:
NOVEMBER: Saturday Nov. 16: 10:00–2:00 at the farm store;
DECEMBER: Sunday Dec. 1, at Pierce Hall for the Rochester Winter Market, 10:00–3:00; Saturday Dec. 7, at the farm store from 10:00–2:00; Saturday Dec. 14, at Lawson’s Finest Liquids in Waitsfield from 11:00–3:00.

We can also ship non-perishable merchandise to you! Please contact Rob by email (rob@vermontberries.com) or text (802-349-6485) with your order request.

Please see the full list of our raw honeys below.

Big pot o’ honey!

photo: Liz Horstman

Our Raw Honeys

From right here in Rochester. VT:
    Berry Farm 2023: is SOLD OUT. There will not be any 2024 Berry Farm honey–it has all been left with the bees for their winter supply.
    1. Blackberry 2024, a spring/early summer honey made by the bees from this year’s very abundant wild blackberries. Also contains clover and dandelion. Light and fruity, it is selling fast.
    2. Aster 2024 Dark and musky. Also contains goldenrod nectar but purple aster was very abundant this year and dominated the fall crop.

Also from Vermont:
    3.Black Locust 2024 (Panton, VT) light and buttery. This year’s is a little more golden than earlier vintages and now creamy and blonde.
    4. Wildflower 2024 (Shaftsbury, VT) from clover & dandelion flowers mostly, and more floral than Black Locust. Beautifully smooth, creamy, and pale, this honey has the light sweetness of powdered sugar, with a hint of fruitiness about it.
    5. Trefoil 2023 (Hinesburg, VT) is light, buttery smooth, and fruity, with a taste of sweet orange about it. Clover and vetch nectar were also involved in this high-summer, naturally-creamed honey. Selling quickly.
    6. Basswood 2023 (Shaftsbury, VT) A spring honey that has a slight “bite” of citrus about it. Crystallized. Darker than Wildflower. Running low on this vintage.
    7. Buckthorn 2023 (Sunderland, VT) a spring honey with a butterscotch taste that is also slightly sour. Even people who say they don’t like honey like this honey! The 2023 vintage is creamy now–there was no Buckthorn harvest in 2024, probably due to wet conditions.
    8. Purple Loosetrife 2024 (Hinesburg, VT) The invasive plant, Lythrum salicaria, likes damp ground and has made a comeback in Vermont recently due to wetter conditions. This new honey is darker than early summer honeys usually are and has fruity, candy-like vibrancy.
    9. Knotweed 2024 (Putnamville, VT), a rare late summer/early fall honey that the bees made from Japanese Knotweed, Aster and Goldenrod. Smooth, creamy, darkish, with a taste of funky fruitiness.
    10. Bamboo 2023 (Putnamville, VT) a rare late summer/early fall honey that the bees made from “Japanese Bamboo” (aka Knotweed) and other fall field weeds. Smooth, creamy, blonde, and with a taste of tropical fruit. This is is one of our Top Shelf honeys!
    11. Goldenrod 2023 (Shaftsbury, VT) This fall honey has a somewhat earthy, yeasty taste and a slightly gritty texture. Not as “funky” as earlier vintages of Goldenrod we have had.
    12. Goldenrod 2024 (Hinesburg, VT) More pale than Goldenrod usually comes out–contains a good bit of Clover and Aster nectar. Creamy.
    13. Old Gold 2024 (Granville, VT) Goldenrod-dominant honey from bees kept at Old Road Farm. Has an earthy nose but lighter in color and slower to crystalize than Goldenrod usually is. In its liquid state it has the greenish tinge that you see with high fructose honeys such as Tupelo and Black Locust.

Unique raw honeys from out of state:
    14. Wild Blueberry 2024 (Cherryfield, ME) from the vast fields of low bush blueberries north of Bar Harbor. You can taste the blueberry in it–smooth, quite dark, and not yet crystallized.
    15. Raspberry 2024 (Downeast, ME) Rich, fruity, and a little fiery, a beautiful golden-brown color, and still runny.
    16. Cranberry 2022 (Cape Cod) It doesn’t taste like cranberries but instead carries a hint of apricot. Now crystallized. Golden, and a little gritty.
    17. Dark Knotweed 2024 (Cooperstown NY) very dark with a molasses flavor and strong notes of rum raisin liqueur and dark chocolate. Unforgettable. The darker the honey the greater the health benefits, they say.
    18. Star Thistle 2020 (Beulah, MI) from the Sleeping Bear Dunes area, creamy and blonde, with a taste of marzipan and notes of green apple! It’s amazing.
    19. Orange Blossom 2024 (Central Florida) From orange groves, with a very strong orange taste. Very popular, it is another of our Top Shelf honeys.
    20. Tupelo 2024 (Ponce de Leon, FL) from the Florida panhandle swamplands, now back in stock! A rare honey with a green tinge to its color, a buttery mouth feel, and hint of spiciness. Made famous by Van Morrison’s song, Tupelo does not crystalize due to its high fructose/low glucose ratio. Top Shelf!

Here are the sizes and prices of the honey (due to rising costs, some honeys have had price increases in recent years.)
2 oz. net jar: $3 for most types; $4 for the Knotweeds, Goldenrod ’24, and all the berry flavors; $5 for Bamboo, Orange Blossom, & Tupelo
5 oz. net jar: $6 for most types; $8 for the Knotweeds, Goldenrod ’24, and all the berry flavors; $10 for Bamboo, Orange Blossom, & Tupelo
9 oz. net jar: $9 for most types; $12 for the Knotweeds, Goldenrod ’24, and all the berry flavors; $15 for Bamboo, Orange Blossom, & Tupelo
13 oz. net jar: $12 for most types; $16 for the Knotweeds, Goldenrod ’24, Berry Farm, and all the berry flavors; $20 for Bamboo, Orange Blossom, & Tupelo
18 oz. net jar: $15 for most types; $20 for the Knotweeds, Goldenrod ’24, Berry Farm, and all the berry flavors; $25 for Bamboo, Orange Blossom, & Tupelo
38 oz net jar: $25 for most types; $35 for the Knotweeds, Goldenrod ’24, Berry Farm, and all the berry flavors; $45 for Bamboo, Orange Blossom, & Tupelo

Honey by the pail–available in Black Locust, Wildflower, Goldenrod ’23, Old Gold, and Star Thistle: 4 lb. bucket: $35; 7 lb. bucket: $60; 12 lb. bucket: $90

Our available jam is Blueberry, available in the two smallest sizes at $3 and $6; Raspberry jam is sold out for now–we aim to make more in time for Winter Market on December 1.

For mail orders, we add $7 for handling and materials regardless of order size, plus actual USPS shipping charges. Write to Rob at rob@vermontberries.com, or text 802-349-6485.

Some quick notes:

The ingredients in our jams are usually certified organic except for the Pomona’s fruit pectin (made from lemon peel) but sometimes we run short of certified organic fruit and can only get conventionally grown. With all our batches of jam the label accurately shows whether the ingredients are certified organic or not.

The honeys we sell are truly raw and unfiltered; and the bees are kept well away from any spraying or GMO crops, although none of the above are certified organic.

Please write to us using the contact page or to rob@vermontberries.com for more info.