Honey Farms & Apiaries near Smithville, MO

Plattsburg

Honey Timbers sells honey from hives kept on its own land near Plattsburg, offering raw, strained, and ultra-filtered jars along with pollen and beeswax candles. It's a small beekeeping operation in Clinton County, north of Kansas City, listed on regional and national honey locators. The farm keeps a Facebook page for updates. Reach out there to check what's in stock.

Hitch Hive Honey is a family apiary in Excelsior Springs, Missouri, passionate about beekeeping and the importance of pollinators. Pure raw local honey sells in 8-ounce to 2-pound queenline bottles alongside raw cut comb honey.

KC Raw Honey keeps naturally healthy bees on 43+ open acres of diverse Kansas wildflowers — pond and stream included — beside the beekeeper's backyard in suburban Overland Park. The honey is local, raw, and unfiltered: cold-extracted and double-sieve strained to preserve pollen, live enzymes, vitamins, and antioxidants, from colonies obtained entirely by relocating local swarms.

Hillside Honey Apiary is a veteran, family-owned bee farm operating out of a former rural high school building in Easton, Kansas, just north of Leavenworth. Shelley and Ty Martin tend about 80 hives whose bees forage wildflowers along the Missouri River between Leavenworth and Atchison. Beyond raw unfiltered, infused, and creamed honey, the farm sells beeswax skincare products, goat's milk soap, pasture-raised eggs, and cut flowers, and runs hands-on beekeeping tours where visitors suit up to open a live hive.