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KimberBee’s wildflower honey bees find their pollen close to home

July 25, 2025   ·   0 Comments

By BRIAN LOCKHART

LOCAL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE REPORTER

The honey bees that populate the hives used by KimberBee Wildflower Honey in Adjala-Tosorontio don’t have to go very far to do their job.

Beekeeper Kim Headon keeps enough flowering plants and trees on her property so the bees can find pollen close to home. The result is delicious wildflower honey.

The taste and colour of honey will vary depending on what type of plant the bees visit. Because Kim takes great care in keeping her gardens filled with flowers, her honey has a distinct flavour.

“I’ve been doing this since 2016,” Kim explained. “One day on a whim, I decided to go to a lavender farm and went on a tour and they had bee hives. I heard the story of the queen and the worker bees, and I thought it was something that was so cool, I thought I could do this. I went to take a course, and went home with two hives.”

Kim takes pride in her large garden on her 10-acre property, and the garden serves the bees.

“I’m a huge gardener and I have a 10-acre property and large gardens, so they forage in all my flowers and trees,” Kim said. “I have six hives and their all together and each one can give you a different colour honey. The colour depends on what they forage on. The bees will fly up to three kilometres away from their hive to forage. We have lots of trees. They love maple trees and willow trees, especially in the spring. One of the trees is a Harlequin Maple – they seem to love that one. In the early spring it looks like it’s alive because there are so many bees around it – it looks like it’s going to take flight.”

In addition to producing honey, Kim also makes products from the beeswax. She makes beeswax candles, hand and body balm, and lip balm.

“I love the smell of beeswax candles and it’s so good for the air,” Kim said. “When the honey in the hive has reached the proper viscosity, the bees cap it over with wax. Bee products are all pure and natural. If you do process it, then you’re killing all the good stuff in it. I also bake with honey. You use half with honey for how much sugar the recipe calls for.”

Kim has six hives, each with double broods containing around 50,000 bees.

Honey production slows down in the fall when the bees naturally prepare for the coming winter. They cluster together in the winter for warmth.

Kim sells her honey and products at farmers’ and vendors’ markets as well as from a stand at the end of her driveway.

Kim’s stand is located 1454 Concession Road 7, in Adjala-Tosorontio.


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