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Real bees.
Real beekeepers.

We don't sell a meadow on a label. We sell what the bees made, the way they made it — raw, unfiltered, unheated, from one place: the Missouri Ozarks, in Southwest Missouri.

Where it's from

A place, not a factory.

Our hives sit in the hardwood hollows and clover fields outside Springfield, in the 417. The bees work white clover and sage in spring, wildflower and tulip poplar through summer, buckwheat and sourwood into the dark of the season. Each honey on our shelf is a different bloom, a different month — not a different additive.

We've been keeping bees since long before it was a brand. We've been stung. We know what real honey tastes like, and we got tired of watching it get heated, filtered and cut until it tasted like sugar water.

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Beekeeper tending the hives
How we make it

Three steps. Nothing else.

01

Keep

Hives placed by bloom across the Missouri Ozarks. The bees do the hard part; our job is to keep them alive and out of the way.

02

Pull & strain

We pull frames at the right moment and strain out wax — that's it. No fine filter, no flash heat. Pollen and enzymes stay in.

03

Jar

Straight into the jar — lot-stamped by hand, and onto your counter where it belongs.

"Show me, don't tell me. The gold's in the jar — taste it, then talk."

— The Show Me promise
The jar

One honey. Two sizes.

Show Me Honey Co raw honey jar
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