Kingsburgh Apiaries - Bee Quest Honey

General information

Kingsburgh Apiaries and Bee Quest Honey are owned by Tom and Julia Epplett, and operated from our home near Plattsville, ON. As a home-based business, our emphasis is on quality over quantity, with the minimal-processing, extra care and oversight only possible with a smaller-scale venture, a driving force in our operation. We try to go the extra mile and take the added care necessary to produce a quality, small-batch, natural and local product.

Our main product is our unpasteurized Bee Quest Honey, collected from hives located along the Nith River watershed and sold both from our home and through our small but select network of local vendors in the Kitchener area. Julia also makes a selection of beeswax candles from beeswax laboriously collected through the harvest season by Tom; Julia is also a formidable Quality Control Chief. We also provide smaller, special occasion gift jars of honey (for wedding favours, etc.) and are available for Apicultural talks, with PowerPoint presentation, literature, etc. and, depending on the season, live bees in an observation hive.

Our customer base is largely, but not exclusively, local. Our health-conscious customers like our honey because it is from local nectar sources (with all the medicinal and nutritional benefits of local) and, since processing is minimal, retains the natural “nose” (aroma) and flavour of unadulterated honey. The farm-gate nature of our little venture also allows those of our customers who are curious to see the beehives we have at home, and to see how their honey is made.