Home of Award-Winning Honey River Mead
Howdy folks! The snow is coating the fields and the hives now, so we’re taking a few months to reflect and reset for 2026. In the meantime, we’re here to report that 2025 was an excellent year for honey production. Our happy bees worked hard this year – this year we had over 80 hives in production! We’re selling honey wholesale in a few local places, which we haven’t done in many years, since most of our honey goes to make the wine. Interested in placing an order, or coming to try for yourself? Give us a call. All appointments and orders are done over the phone.
It was also an excellent fruit year: we had the largest peach crop ever! In celebration, we’ve added a new photo blow, drinking the Peach Melomel-In-Progress in the honey house. Before it ferments, it’s an absolutely delicious a mix of honey and peaches and spring water. Ambrosia! Want to try the alcoholic version? Come by in 2029 to taste it for yourself!
We’re extra thankful for the apple press crew this year. The apple juice we turn into our Cyser was 100% from Healthberry Farm this year – over 150 gallons of juice that will also be melomel in three years. There will also be a short-run batch of the Perry from an entirely Asian Pear juicing. We feel blessed, for the land and the fruit and our friends who help, and are excited to share it with you sometime.
Want something that’s ready now? We are open *by appointment* for tastings and tours of the honey house and winery. Please call 304-227-4414 to schedule your appointment, place an order, or for any other reason.
If you’d like email updates with stories from the farm, the beekeeping and wine-making operations and our life here in rural WV — We’ve launched an email list which will be much more story-telling than a sales letter, we promise! If you sign up, you can expect to hear from us seasonally.
About Us:
Learn about: Honey River Meads ~ Healthberry Farm Honey and Honey Products. For regional vendors, festivals and ordering information, visit our contact page.
At Healthberry Farm, we believe in the importance of working with nature to produce the finest products possible. Our varietal honey offerings are raw and come to you straight from the hive, without pasteurization or processing. Honey River meads are aged for two years so they can be bottled without sulfites. Our salves and candles are made with simple ingredients that are good for your body and the air you breathe. We do not add any chemicals, preservatives, colors or additives to any of our products, as they are unnecessary and often harmful.
We are located in the heart of the Highlands of West Virginia, surrounded by the Monongahela National Forest. Healthberry bees forage on plants in a wild setting, a safe distance from sources of toxic contamination, and are never moved for pollination services. Our practices give you an opportunity to support eco-friendly, small-scale farming while treating yourself to delicious varietal honey products made by healthy, happy bees!
We believe that when you try it for yourself, you will be able to experience the difference!
Bee Healthy, Bee Happy!
On your health,
Ben & EMay
2025, drinking Peach Melomel – fermented for you by 2029!
2012, on one of our first dates, mountain climbing and singing songs to each other!
