Honeybees collect nectar from hundreds of species of wildflowers, fruit trees, and vegetables in order to produce honey. The color and flavor of honey depends on the flowers from which bees gather the nectar. The color of honey ranges in a wide variety of colors from water white through different shades of amber to dark amber. A single hive (colony) of honeybees must tap 200,000 flowers and travel over 55,000 miles to gather enough nectar to produce just one pound of honey. In fact, a single female worker honeybee will only make 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey in her short lifespan of approximately 40 days!

We have 7 apiaries scattered through East Baton Rouge Parish, Washington Parish, and East Feliciana Parish. North Leighton Gardens These apiaries included certified organic blueberry and fruit orchards as well as rural and suburban plant communities.

Wildflower honey produced at North Leighton Gardens comes from a rainbow of wildflower species such as hollies, native and Japanese plums, apples, crabapples, goldenrod, buckwheat, asters, vegetables, blueberries, white clover, kumquats, Meyer's lemons, Louisiana sweet oranges, grapes, muscadines, virgin's bower, climbing hempvine, Chinese tallow tree, red maple, black willow, basils, mints, and other culinary herbs, etc.

Wildflower honey produced at our other honeybee yards also comes from a varied floral source such as mayhaw, blueberries, apples, pears, yaupon, Chinese tallow tree, red maple, clovers, blackberries, muscadines, wild plums, goldenrods, climbing hempvine, asters, citrus, and other wildflower species found in rural southern, Louisiana.