Pure, raw unfiltered,
natural local honey
At Brighton Honey, we are passionate about honey and pride ourselves at producing a natural local honeywithout chemicals, antibiotics or pesticides. It’s natural, raw, local honey from my hives in the town of Brighton, Rochester NY. If you are looking for honey please contact us or you can purchase honey online. If you want to stop by to purchase honey and you can see the bees hard at work. Brighton Honey is 100% pure raw, unfiltered, all-natural, and is never heat treated. If you hold the honey up to the sunlight you can see tiny specks of pollen grains and tiny pieces of white beeswax, something that missing in processed or imported honey typically from the supermarket, that’s raw honey
Some interesting honey facts, since honey is a natural plant product gathered by bees; Local raw unprocessed honey is: Naturally vegan; naturally kosher, and amazingly a near-zero carbon footprint source of concentrated energy! Humans have been consuming honey for thousands of years and in the geological infancy of hominids, honey would have been the only significant source of concentrated energy available. Honey was highly sought after and was considered an extremely extravagant gift in early civilizations. Honey has been used for medical purposes, trade, fermented as a beverage and of course to sweeten tea. Honey is a gathered as a crop by unique farmers call Beekeepers and the farm is called an Apiary. Beekeeping is the process of providing essential shelter and security for bees saving them work and energy. This protection and tending allow for the robbing of honey for human consumption.
Be nice to bees! Unlike other bee-like insects, honeybees are vegetarians and don’t like to be around humans. The only reason honeybees may be interested in you is they smell something sweet perhaps perfume or conditioner. Never swat at bees. If you ever see a clump of bees please make a beekeeper happy and give them a call and let them rescue the bees.
Latest Blog Posts
Gardening and Creating Pollinator Friendly Spaces January 12, 2019 - Anyone can create a welcoming garden for pollinators. Turning your own yard or other property such as a schoolyard, work landscape, or roadside green space into a pollinator habitat is fun, easy and can make a difference for birds also. Planting a few flowers for your honey bees is like adding a few gallons of water to the ocean. Honeybees need on average about a square mile of good cover to forage on. However, adding a diverse mix of flowering plants to your garden will also attract butterflies, moths, hummingbirds, along with native bee species and the occasional wasps. These insects are essential to our survival and need to be welcomed into at the least a corner of our backyards.… more
Spiked Honey Ginger Lemonade Cocktail August 13, 2018 - This is a guest post from my brother-in-law, Adam. He is a food connoisseur and Vice President of Learning at Lobster Ink: I wanted to make a refreshing and light summery mass cocktail for my housewarming BBQ in Brooklyn. I decided on making a spiked ginger honey lemonade using my favorite honey. On the day before the party, I started by making a ginger simple syrup, I also froze three-liter bottles of water. I have a great samovar I got from a hotel sale, and about 20 minutes before my guests arrived I filled it with the lemonade (I usually make my own lemonade, but I was running late so I got a nice, not from concentrate fresh store brand),… more
Offsetting Unavoidable CO2 Emissions: Low Emissions Vehicle December 11, 2017 - With the solar panel installation the next logical step in taking ownership of my contribution to climate change was to invest in a low emissions vehicle. After some research and going over the pros and cons my final choice was the Chevy Volt. The Volt satisfies two major factors when it comes to usefulness of a electric vehicle; the volt is a pluggable and a hybrid electric i.e. PHEV. The volt technology has a great electric only range of a little over 50 miles while incorporating the hybrid engine to extend its range and mitigate the anxiety of range or the fear of being stranded by a depleted battery. The Chevy Volt PHEV is the ultimate melding of the technologies… more
Holiday Rum Balls Recipe with Honey December 11, 2017 - The holiday season is never complete without rum balls. This year we decided to modify the classic recipe with honey. The balls need to set a bit but an early sample seems successful! Here is the recipe we used. 1 box finely crushed Vanilla wafers (11 oz box) 2 ½ cups powdered sugar 1 cup finely chopped pecans or about 4 oz (toasted) ¼ cup cocoa ½ cup rum ¼ cup honey Use food processor to finely crush wafer and pecans. Crush pecans and wafers separately to visually control the crushing process in order to get a uniform product. Combine and mix well wafers, pecans, powdered sugar, cocoa powder and then add honey and rum. Shape into 1-inch balls. Roll… more
Monitoring Solar Output via MRTG September 15, 2017 - I was successful in porting the solar inverter data to MRTG! This is accomplished with program called RRDTool developed by the author of the original MRTG. A script was needed to import the raw solar data into a database using a handy language called python. RRDTool uses a database called Round Robin Database thus the RRD. The solar inverter has the ability to "push" a file via FTP to a host at a selective time interval. Currently I have it pushing every minute to a server. A cron job calls a script every 5 mins which then imports the data to the round robin database. The graphs are generated on the fly with a CGI script which calls to RRDTool to… more
Brighton Honey Adds Solar April 25, 2017 - It was chilly overcast spring morning when we started. I wanted to get them installed as early in spring as possible to get a full season of sunlight. The next day the sky had cleared and the sun was shining bright on a crisp blue background. I threw the switch on the inverter and powered up the system and the capacitors started to hum. more
Beekeeping and a Disrupted Plant-Pollinator Relationship January 18, 2017 - Plants and insects have been evolving in unison for millions of years and have benefited from an elegant symbiotic relationship. This relationship has provided plants a willing host to convey pollen in trade for valuable high energy cocktail called nectar. Residual pollen is an added bonus protein source. A new dynamic is disrupting the alignment of this interaction. Climate change is affecting this coordinated inter species relationship by disrupting the flower blooming cycle. Plants have evolved a response to the spring warming cycle that starts the flowering process in most of the northern hemisphere. more
Hive Extraction and Equipment List with Infrared Photos August 31, 2015 - Worked another extraction this weekend for a local building management company and every time I am on one I learn to be a bit more efficient and wanted to share my list. If there is the opportunity to make a small hole first when starting and extraction this is ideal. So the trick is to annoy the aggressive bees and get them out a small hole and grab them with the vacuum right away. This time around I broke through the drywall with a small hole and kept banging on the ceiling to annoy them. I then opened a hole about 6 inches square. This really helped as the aggressive bees rushed the opening and right into the vacuum. I… more
A New Beekeeping Season is Upon Us January 27, 2015 - Even though the north east is under the barrage of a strong winter I am looking forward to a spring gardening and challenge of what the beekeeping season will bring. Last year many beekeepers were reminded that the weather is a relentless foe and we as beekeepers in the north east need to stay diligent and manage bees for winter survival. The more organized of us are already getting ready for when and if the Indian summer break in late February or early March to inspect and add bee candy if necessary. Not only do we need to keep the supply of carbohydrates in the hive but perhaps add feeders to stimulate the queen to fire up the brood chamber… more
