Honey Lake Bee Company

06/11/2026

Load up your market tote with fresh and in-season vegetables from our farmers! Grown locally and always picked fresh just for you! 🍓🧄🧅🍄‍🟫🥬🥕🍅
Illinois Farmers Market Association
Churchill Orchards
Geneva Lakes Produce LLC
Middlebury Farms Inc.
River Valley Ranch - RVR

06/11/2026

Some of our hives and a friend’s hive after the storms last night and heavy rains. More storms tonight! Hope we miss them.

06/10/2026

When it gets hot and humid out, bees will leave the inside of the hive to help reduce excess heat that each bee produces. Bees like the internal temperature to be around 92-97 degrees- warmer than that they spread water and fan it to cool the hive but also they will hang outside the front waiting for things to cool down. This is called “bearding” and does not mean the hive is going to swarm.

06/09/2026

Yesterday the skies were cloudy with rain threatening. The bees were super busy trying to bring in their last loads of pollen and nectar.
Turn the sound up and you can hear the buzzz.

06/09/2026

Checkout the recent article about our little bee business in COUNTY Magazine! Link is in our bio.
Thank you COUNTY Magazine for a wonderful article🐝🐝🐝

06/08/2026

https://jwcmedia.com/the-bee-man-of-barrington/

Lake Forest’s Annie McAveeney’s labor of love—Fill A Heart 4 Kids—celebrates nearly two decades of serving the state’s most vulnerable children.

06/06/2026

We now have bread bags! Hand made by us with our beeswax. These are LARGE bread bags that can hold any size loaf (or 2).
Only available at the farmers markets- and limited supply!

06/05/2026

Spring honey is now being harvested and our expert honey connoisseur, Karen believes it to be the best honey yet! With the dry conditions, it is a lower moisture (15%), than typical honey harvested in the spring making it thicker. Karen says, “light and sweet with a delicate flavor - So Yummy!”.
Pick some up at a farmers market or order from our website for pickup from our house - we also ship.

What is your favorite honey?

Current Farmers Markets:
Palatine and Evanston Saturday
Skokie Sunday

06/03/2026

SCHAUMBURG CUSTOMERS: Unfortunately we will not be attending the Schaumburg Farmers Markets this year. We have thoroughly enjoyed the past 4 years that we were able to serve as your honey/candle/beeswax product vendor and will miss seeing you all on a weekly basis! If it was our choice we would have continued to be there every Friday!

You can still find us at many farmers markets in the Chicagoland area or online! We ship across the United States and also offer local pickup! Check out our website (honeylakebeecompany.com) and please stay in touch!