For three generations, Honeyville’s “beekeeping and honey bottling family business” has been going
strong. It is situated just outside of
Durango, CO and started by Vernon Culhane in the 1920’s. Vernon began his venture by taking away some
of the honey bees from a tree close to his house to initiate his own hive. The honey these bees were creating tasted
amazing and soon the whole area heard about Vernon’s honey. He started selling his honey in and around
Durango which gained him the nickname of “The
Falfa Honey Man”. He started out
taking honey to downtown Durango on his old flatbed truck where the town’s
folks would be able to fill up their jars with honey. After a while, people started coming to the
Honey House for honey where people not only filled up their containers but was
greeted with a tour of the farm. Vernon’s
pastime with honey turned out to be a flourishing business.
Today, you can shop at the Honeyville factory store, watch
them make the honey, observe the bees, and buy a variety of products created
from the honey. My husband and I went
crazy and not only bought their raw honey but whipped cinnamon, chocolate buzz,
honey caramel, apple butter, bumbleberry jam, honey peach wine, and chocolate
raspberry honey wine. Everything was mouth-watering
good.
What a neat place! And, I can almost taste that yummy honey. :)
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