Company founded
1997
Number of employees
1-4
Description
Our joint beekeeping experience began in 1997 when we moved to Tinton Falls, NJ and purchased our first colony. Recently after our move, Ed and I had seen the Peter Fonda movie, Ulee's Gold, which is about a beekeeper in Florida who pulls his troubled family back together all the while he is collecting tupelo honey from his bee hives. The next day Ed called to say we would be picking up our first beehive from a beekeeper in Vineland, NJ. Since that first hive we have grown to 80 hives and now offer an early season Jersey Fresh wildflower honey called Spring Blossoms (April-June nectar), a mid-summer Jersey Fresh wildflower honey called Summer Gardens (June- July nectar) and a Jersey Fresh fall wildflower honey called Red Bank Raw (August - October nectar). In addition we offer several Jersey Fresh varietal honeys; cranberry and blueberry honey. And since we are always listening to our customers we now carry clover, alfalfa, buckwheat, tupelo and orange blossom honeys. In addition we are licensed from the New Jersey Department of Agriculture to use the Jersey Fresh logo on our New Jersey products. It helps that Mary comes from a family in which her father was a hobbyist and commercial beekeeper in Maryland and Georgia. In addition while she was working at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center in Beltsville, Maryland, Mary began working with bees. ...