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The 2008 Tupelo Honey crop will be harvested soon. We are just waiting on the bees to finish doing there job. It looks like we are going to have a good crop this year the flow has lasted longer than usual and the bees have made a lot of Tupelo. We will start harvest the Tupelo by the weekend 05/10/2008 because we have to get some ready for the Tupelo Honey Festival on the 17th.

2007 Tupelo Honey Harvesting

 Today is May 14, 2007 and we have just finished extracting our 2007 Tupelo Honey Crop.  This years Tupelo is very light, and because of the extreme dry weather it has a very low moisture content.  The moisture content was the lowest I have ever seen, which causes the honey to be very thick.  The quality and taste is superb.  It's aromatic sweet smell filled the honey house every time we opened the extracting machine for reloading.  The overall yield for this years crop was lower than last year due to low river levels.  Our bee's were in excellent shape, very strong and produced a beautiful honey crop.  They worked very hard for long hours along the Chipola River to bring in some of the best Tupelo that can be had.  Thanks to Smiley Apiaries Honey Bee's we can have some fine Tupelo for another year.  Each of our tupelo bee yards had as many as 128 hives.  After the Tupelo was harvested, we were able move 128 hive to Gallberry locations.  To my surprise, inspite of the drought conditions our bees pruduced 16 drums of water white Gallberry Honey.  This is the best Gallberry Honey I have ever seen.  The Gallberry Honey will be for sell on this website as soon as we get it packaged.

We were very sorry that our 2006 honey crop sold out before the 2007 crop was ready.  Thanks to all of my customers who waited so very patiently for the new crop to be harvested and packaged.