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Squeaky Tree Honey Farm is a family owned business. Our farm is located in Iredell county near the Davie county line. We get wonderful spring honey here where the bees collect nectar from flowering trees as well as flowers in the fields. Typically the spring honey flow is over around the beginning of June. We then collect and extract this honey and prepare the hives to be moved to the "mountains" up in Wilkes and Surry counties for our July Sourwood honey crop. This is quite an endeavor as you can see below. The honey crop from the Sourwood is very unpredictable. Some years are good and other years we get little to no yield.

We sell bottled honey retail and wholesale by the case or in buckets as supply allows. Contact us if you would like some rich, raw North Carolina honey. It is carefully strained but not processed. Honey can be picked up in Statesville at our other business - Ted's Signs or from our farm out in the country by special arrangement. Let us know if you would like to start your own beekeeping. We can help you get started in the spring with bees and equipment.

Sourwood

Sourwood grows in the higher elevation forests of the southeastern United States. It is also known as sorrel-tree or lily-of-the-valley-tree. The flowers are an important source of honey in the summer.

It is the source of the famous Sourwood honey. In summer the sourwood tree has long, drooping clusters of fragrant white flowers which resemble lily-of-the-valley. Sourwood tree leaves turn bright scarlet, orange or crimson in the fall, and are sour to the taste.

Sourwood honey is a light-colored honey that has an almost caramel or buttery flavor, and a pleasant, lingering aftertaste. Some fans of sourwood honey claim that because of its taste you don’t need any butter on your biscuits or bread with this honey!

National Honey Board

You can see our hive moving operation below- Dad, Ian and Jeremy. The boys like running the loader. It's a lot better than when we did it all by hand before. There still is plenty of other hard lifting work though.