Ed. Note: The following content was provided by Bennett’s Honey Farm, who is a client of KHTS AM-1220.

The family-owned and operated Santa Clarita honey packing facility Bennett’s Honey Farm offers tastings of more than 12 different varieties of 100 percent pure, gourmet honey for sale.

Bennett’s Honey Farm bees are sent all over the country to pollinate a variety of different kinds of flowers, creating a new and distinct honey flavor every time.

“Every floral source or flower produces a different flavor of honey, so when we bring our bees to the oranges and they work the flowers on the orange trees, it’s orange honey,” said Chip Vannoy, the farm’s owner and beekeeper. “Every floral source has its own distinct flavor.”

While some honey flavors are brought in from outside sources, Bennett’s Honey Farm beekeepers produce most varieties entirely themselves, from the flower to the bee to the extraction, said Vannoy, who has about 35 years of experience as a beekeeper.

If there’s enough rain in the Santa Clarita Valley to keep flowers in bloom during the spring, the bees pollinate sage and buckweed in local foothills before the temperatures begin to rise and they travel to North Dakota for the summer to pollinate clover.

Bennett’s Honey Farm honey offers the most natural honey with no refined sugars and the least amount of processing compared to industry standards, making it a healthy way to enjoy a sweet taste, according to Vannoy.

“We’re not pulling pollens and enzymes or anything like that,” he said. “We just lightly warm our honey and then we strain it through a cheesecloth filter. Most of the industry, they’re heating it to over 165 degrees,… they’re pulling out all the pollens, all the enzymes– anything that’s good for you is gone. You’re just basically getting a colored sweetener.”

One unique flavor created by the staff at Bennett’s Honey Farm is called creamed cinnamon honey, which Vannoy said makes for a healthy sweet breakfast when spread on a slice of toast.

“The best thing is to come to the honey farm and do a tasting,” added General Manager Al Fortune. “That way you get to taste a sample of all the different flavors.”

A limited supply of raw honey comb is also available at Bennett’s Honey Farm, a unique product Fortune said is currently in high demand.

“That’s right from the beehive to the consumer– that’s just pure honey comb,” Fortune said. “You talk about as close to nature as you can get, that’s it.”

In addition, the farm also sells 100 percent beeswax candles the staff pours themselves using wax byproducts created during honey processing, as well as honey barbecue sauce, royal jelly and more.

The farm’s tasting room and store is open seven days a week at its location on Honey Lane off the 126 freeway, and products are also available online.

Bennett’s Honey Farm

3176 Honey Lane off Hwy 126

Fillmore, CA 93015

805-521-1375