Green live-oak canopy stretching toward granite hills of the Llano uplift under a Texas sky

Llano County · Texas Hill Country

From the Llano uplift

Hill Country Spring Willow. The April 2026 harvest is in. A limited early-season honey, willow-dominant, with persimmon in the mix.

Spring 2026 · Limited batch

Place first, then the jar

This is not a blended supermarket honey. It is a crop from one county, one spring, one riverine forage, lab-read so we can say so without guessing.

Along the Llano River watershed, willow comes on early. The bees work that bloom, then persimmon, with traces of mesquite, elm, and the rest of a Hill Country spring. We extract without heat, we do not filter the pollen out, and we do not treat the yards with chemicals.

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Mellifloral Profile #2026-2281

April 2026 · Llano County, TX

62.16%Salix · willow pollen

Lab-analyzed unifloral Salix, 62% willow pollen. Well above the ~45% monofloral threshold, with Texas persimmon as a substantial secondary forage.

Unifloral / monofloral willow honey (Salix). Pollen concentration 5,468 grains/g.

How we pack it

All natural. Unfiltered. Never heated.

All natural

Honey as the bees stored it. No flavoring, no blending from elsewhere, no shortcuts in the jar.

Unfiltered

We coarse-strain to take out comb. Pollen, the fine stuff of place, stays in the honey.

Never heated

Extracted and packed without heat. What you taste is the spring flow, not a processed syrup.

No chemical treatments

The yards are run without chemical treatments. The forage, and the bees, come first.

The yards

Creek, pasture, and the early bloom

A wet-weather creek lined with dense yellow wildflowers and live oaks in Llano County
Honey bees on a hive landing board with a second white hive and wildflowers behind it
A line of white hives set in open Hill Country pasture under scattered trees
Shallow Hill Country water reflecting sky, with yellow flowers along the bank
A white hive bearded with bees beside a stand of yellow Hill Country wildflowers
A jar of Fine Llano Honey on a worn white table, label showing a cowboy-hatted bee and the words from the uplift

Hill Country Spring Willow

Light in the glass. Green in the flavor.

Woody, earthy, herbaceous. Mild-to-tangy when young, with a slight bitter edge that settles as it ages. A finishing honey. Green tea, chèvre, yogurt, something simple after supper.

Lab-analyzed unifloral Salix, 62% willow pollen. Not a health claim. A map of what the bees actually worked.

Spring 2026 harvest complete

Limited batch. Price on request.

We are a small farm. Write us for jars, quantities, and pickup or shipping from Llano County.

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