Autumn has arrived and the foliage is gorgeous! We will be open just from 10-noon Tuesday. We close at 5:00 PM now that we are into October. We will be closed Wednesday 10/16 when showers are forecast, open again Thursday when a sunny day is called for.
Fall raspberries are ripening slowly and will continue at some level until we get our first killing frost. Intrepid raspberry lovers might be able to do some PYO–first pickers in after we open up will always do best–and we may have a few boxes of fresh raspberries at the farm stand at any given time. The Fresh Blueberry season is over. It started about 12 days early this year due to warm and wet conditions, and finished earlier than usual too. We are now sold out of primo frozen blueberries–but if you want them for jam or cooking they should be good and we have quite a lot of these.
Our famous low-sugar raspberry and blueberry jam is back in stock, and we are loaded up with raw honey and maple syrup. We carry a very large selection of raw honey (see below), local syrup, Vermont-made soy candles, and several Vermont-themed cookbooks.
We will be open every weekend through October 14 (Indigenous Peoples’ Day) and generally open three midweek days as well (Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays typically.) Our hours of business are usually 10-5 once we are into October.
We can 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
Here are our raw honey types:
From right here in Rochester. VT:
Berry Farm 2023, from the bees on our farm, has a complex medley of fruity notes that are like guava and passionfruit. Wow!
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.
Aster 2024 has just been harvested. Dark and musky. Also contains goldenrod nectar but the purple aster was very abundant this year and dominated the fall crop.
Also from Vermont:
Black Locust (Panton, VT) 2022/2023/2024, light and buttery. This year’s is runny and a little more golden than earlier vintages which are now creamy and blonde.
Wildflower (Shaftsbury, VT) 2024, 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.
Trefoil (Hinesburg, VT) 2023 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.
Basswood (Shaftsbury, VT) 2023. A spring honey that has a slight “bite” of citrus about it. Crystallized. Darker than Wildflower. Running low on this vintage.
Buckthorn (Sunderland, VT) 2023, 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.
Purple Loosetrife (Hinesburg, VT) 2024. This 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.
“Bamboo” (Putnamville, VT) 2023, 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!
Goldenrod (Shaftsbury, VT) 2023. 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.
Unique raw honeys from out of state:
Wild Blueberry (Cherryfield, ME) 2024, 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.
Raspberry (Downeast, ME) 2024. Rich, fruity, and a little fiery, a beautiful golden-brown color, and still runny.
Cranberry (Cape Cod) 2022, It doesn’t taste like cranberries but instead carries a hint of apricot. Now crystallized. Golden, and a little gritty.
Dark Knotweed (Cooperstown NY) 2024, 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.
Star Thistle (Beulah, MI) 2020, from the Sleeping Bear Dunes area, creamy and blonde, with a taste of marzipan and notes of green apple! It’s amazing.
Orange Blossom (Central Florida) 2024. From orange groves, with a very strong orange taste. Very popular, it is another of our Top Shelf honeys.
Tupelo (Ponce de Leon, FL) 2024 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 a price increases in recent years.)
2 oz. net jar: $3 for most types; $4 for Knotweed, Berry Farm, and all the berry flavors; $5 for Bamboo, Orange Blossom, & Tupelo
5 oz. net jar: $6 for most types; $8 for Knotweed, Berry Farm, and all the berry flavors; $10 for Bamboo, Orange Blossom, & Tupelo
9 oz. net jar: $9 for most types; $12 for Knotweed, Aster, Berry Farm, and all the berry flavors; $15 for Bamboo, Orange Blossom, & Tupelo
13 oz. net jar: $12 for most types; $16 for Knotweed, Aster, Berry Farm, and all the berry flavors; $20 for Bamboo, Orange Blossom, & Tupelo
18 oz. net jar: $15 for most types; $20 for Knotweed, Aster, Berry Farm, and all the berry flavors; $25 for Bamboo, Orange Blossom, & Tupelo
38 oz net jar: $25 for most types; $35 for Knotweed, Aster, Berry Farm, and all the berry flavors; $45 for Bamboo, Orange Blossom, & Tupelo
Honey by the pail–available in Black Locust, Wildflower, Goldenrod, and Star Thistle: 4 lb. bucket: $35; 7 lb. bucket: $60; 12 lb. bucket: $90
Our jams are Blueberry, available in the four smallest sizes at $3, $6, $9, and $12; and Raspberry, available in the three smallest sizes at $4, $7, and $11.
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.
