USA Pure Honey is a guide to local honey in every US state: what the state actually produces, and who to buy it from.
Where the listings come from
Two sources, and every listing says which one it came from. We would rather tell you how thoroughly something was checked than imply it was all checked the same way.
50 listings we checked by hand. One per state, opened and read on their own websites. These are marked Our pick and sit at the top of their state page.
709 listings come from the National Honey Board. Businesses register themselves with the board — the USDA-overseen industry body — and publish their town, contact details and the floral sources they sell. We checked every website link and read what came back, but we have not visited these producers or spoken to them.
What "checked" actually means
We open the link and read the page. That matters more than it sounds: a working website is not the same as a 200 response. When this site was rebuilt, a third of the inherited listings were wrong — dead domains, parked pages, a producer filed under the wrong state, and a pasture-meat farm listed as a honey producer. Checking the 759 listings here turned up parked domains, redirect stubs and sites with no mention of honey on them.
293 listings have a website link we confirmed. The rest are listed without one, because a listing with no link is more use than a link that goes nowhere.
How we make money
A producer who ships nationwide can pay to be promoted. A promoted listing appears on state pages — other states' and its own — and never on another business's listing. It is marked Sponsored wherever it appears, and noted as shipping nationwide outside its home state, so you always know which placements were paid for and which were not.
A business that has claimed its listing can also pay to show its own store on its own listing page: its products, prices and offers, labelled as supplied by the business and paid for. It never appears on another business's listing, and it changes nothing we say about the business. Buying takes you to the business's own website, where it takes the order; we sell nothing ourselves.
Paying changes where a listing appears. It does not change whether a business is listed, what we say about it, or whether its link was checked — every listing here goes through the same checks, and an advertiser's entry is written the same way as anyone else's. We will not remove a producer to make room for one who pays.
An advertiser can also be Our pick for its own state. These are separate things, and the pick is not for sale: it goes to the producer we can establish the most about — a site we have read, and in one case third-party lab reports for the honey itself — and no payment buys it or moves it. Where one business is both, the paid placement carries the Sponsored label and the pick does not.
Where a link earns us a commission, the listing says so. A commission never changes whether a business is listed, what we write about it, or whether its link was checked.
What we do not do
We do not publish customer reviews, because we have no way to stand behind them. We do not copy other directories' listings.
We do not publish street addresses. Many of these are people working from home, and a town is all a directory needs. The 756 map pins sit on the town, not the front door.
If a listing is yours
Sign in, open your listing and choose Claim this listing. You can correct anything, add details, or ask us to take it down — we will not argue about a removal.
Suggest a producer
Know a beekeeper who should be here, or spot something out of date? Send us the details or email [email protected].