Heritage Prairie Market

Store Hours
Closed Monday
Tuesday-Friday 9am to 6pm
Saturday 9am to 5pm
Sunday 10am to 5pm

Contact
Office Phone 630 443 8253
Store Phone 630 877 0407
Email info@hpmfarm.com

Directions and Map
We are located just west of Randall Road on Highway 38.
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2N308 Brundige Road
La Fox, Illinois 60119

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Bron's Bee Company
What Does the Sweet, Golden Nectar of 300,000 Flowers Taste Like? Discover this edible wonder in each ounce of honey from Bron’s Bee Company. THE HONEY. Adorning our bottles … Prairie flowers kissed by a Midwest sun are ideal for crafting this sweet, full-flavored 100% pure honey. This natural purity produced by our small, sustainable farm and other like-minded, family-owned beekeepers is the hallmark of our product line. THE VINTAGE. Join other connoseurs of honey when you enjoy our tall bottles of 100% pure honey marked by a vintage date medallion and hand-dipped beeswax seal . A first of its kind, these make an extraordinary gift. THE VARIETY. In addition to raw honey and Bron’s Select, we offer five different infused honey flavors in darling glass bears and honey pots. Plus, honey contains fructose, glucose, water, nourishing enzymes, vitamins, minerals, and powerful antioxidants that may eliminate free radicals that damage healthy cells.

An assortment of honey bee products, including honey bee pollen, beeswax candles, and comb honey, are available at our farm store, or at the Chicago Green City Market and the Geneva Green Market. In addition to our line of all-natural honeys, Bron's Bees also offers a collection of infused honeys. Hand-crafted in our kitchens, come taste the cinnamon, chocolate, lavender, rosemary, chocolate, or mint flavors, and find your favorite. In support of other local beekeepers, we bring some of the best honeys of the midwest to Heritage Prairie. Bron's Bees honey can also be purchased online.

Bron's Bees Honey is currenlty sold at the following locations:
Fruitful Yield
Dill Pickle Food Cooperative
Provenance Wine and Food
The Chopping Block
Trotter's To Go
Foodstuffs
Convito Cafe

Chef Supported Apiary
Heritage Prairie is offering to lock in 2009 pricing on the most delicious and healthful honey available from our bee farm and other, family-owned apiaries. At $4/lb, you can prepurchase 2010 honey from our Chef Apiary. For every 150 lbs purchased, your restaurant will have a dedicated hive of bees in our Chef Apiary. With the purchase of at least one hive, you will be locked in to the lower 2009 price for any quantity of honey purchased in 2010. There is no sweeter local food story than nurturing a hive of bees! To be a part of our program, or for more information contact Mike.

Honey is more than a just a natural sweetener, it has health benefits as well. Channel 7 took a look at these benefits, and talks to Bronwyn at the farm. Click here for the video.

Did you know. . .

...that honey bees can travel up to 55,000 miles, and visit up to 2 million different flowers to make one pound of honey?

...that there are over 300 different unique varieties of honey in the United States? In general, the lighter the honey the milder the flavor.

...that it's easy to cook with honey? When substituting honey in place of other granular sweeteners, begin by replacing up to half the called for amount. Also, reduce any liquid called for by 1/4 cup for each cup of honey used, and add 1/2 teaspoon baking soda for every cup of honey used. Then, reduce the heat of your oven by 25 degrees, to prevent scorching the honey. For recipes and ideas, click here!

...that honey contains antioxidants? Antioxidants scavenge and release free radicals from the human body. Generally speaking, the darker the honey, the more antioxidants it contains.

Click the picture below to see some beekeepers in training.

Inspecting the hives is an important part of beekeeping. Pesticides and loss of rural agricultural lands have made beekeeping something of a lost art. In the United States, we consume about twice as much honey as we produce. That means that much of the honey found in the big box grocery stores is imported from off-shore and merely bottled here in the United States.

At our farm we are working to educate people about beekeeping and the health benefits of eating local honey. From learning how to tell if a hive is ready to swarm or whether the bees are expecting a hard winter, there's always something the bees have to teach you. Daughters Margaret and Grace are the next generation learning about the love and art of beekeeping.

We hope you enjoy our honey. Use it to replace processed sugar in your diet every chance you can...make something sweet, something healthy!