Hyper-Local Raw Honey and wholesome bee products for culinary arts and healthy homes.

Davis, CA

Yolo County California

Lyle lives and works in Davis, CA, has been beekeeping for “8 years or so” and has way too many projects these days. He doesnt like the word “moist” and wishes he had a dollar for every time he changed the subject of a conversation to bees, mead, honey, honey bee democracy, NorCal coastlines, Planting pollinator forage, Or climbing in the sierra nevadas.

Lyle admits that he has a problem with “More Bees” but, lucky you, he now has more honey fit for your table(s). If you are hunting for something from your farm, let us know and maybe you can host a few colonies for a share of our honey bees’ hard work.

Honey & Bees

Raw and unpasteurized, our small batch honey is 100% sourced from the locality on our label.

Currently only harvesting from Davis, California, but expanding our apiaries into parts of Yolo and Sacramento Counties.

Only biopesticides approved for use while honey is in the hive are ever used on our bees.
Full stop.

Got this #natural #comb (and bees) from an owl box and stuck it in a bee box. A few weeks later the whole colony abandoned this and moved together downstairs to a box with queenless colony in a natural #merger.
Happy to bring this Hefty #braggot to bottle. Tastes like a good fit for the #honeybee forage around these parts #homebrew #mead #honey
Fave way to eat honey?...I'm going to say #mead even though it is technically drinking
💕 Favorite Hive? Big ole' swarm trapped in *secret place* who must have been someone else's favorite Hive and queen because all she did was lay spotless brood frames day in and day out. Not to mention her daughters were the most productive. 💕 When
"Show me the honey!" Hereby home grown and shown. If my beakish nose communicates my genetically superior (French 🥖 🍷) palate you may like to know that. #daviscalifornia early summer honey flow (sunflower 🌻 , citrus 🍋 , etc) tastes like
The size of a #queen is most commonly known as the strongest indicator of her ability to produce. young bees shape the comb to accomadate her (always vertical) cell. #apiculture #beesofinstagram #beekeepersofinstagram #beekeeping
I let these guys keep their natural comb shape over the winter and they are healthy and happy.

Our bees are raised in accordance with U.S. National Organic Standards for livestock rearing.

The rich colors and flavors of our raw honey are preserved through our low-treatment beekeeping and low-heat honey extraction practices.

We make a point to harvest our honey and recycle the wax so there’s little impact on our bees and barely any waste.

Local Pollinators

Our goal is to have a net-zero or positive impact on local pollinators.

Honey bees compete with local pollinators for forage; it is widely agreed that the largest issue at hand is urbanization and monocropping, which can result in a low volume of quality forage for both local honeybees and local pollinators. 

Lyle is currently organizing and advocating for a Davis-based hedgerow program to ensure there is plenty of pollen and nectar (and flowers!) for all species to enjoy.
In coordination with Project Apis M.’s Seeds for Bees program and local landowners, Lyle is actively seeking fallow fields or hedgerows; if you are interested in this free seed program, please use our contact form or contact us on social media.
The seed mix is planted in October or November and is either a till or no-till brassica daikon mix which is an early-Spring bloomer. Daikon helps break up the soil, provide organic material and makes a delicious pickle!

Products

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Lyle's Locals Honey
from $16.00
Propolis Propolis
Propolis
Pollen Pollen
Pollen

How Tos

How to Decrystalize Your Own Honey

  1. Put a pot of room temperature water on your stove and get your jar of crystalized honey. If possible, get a thermometer to measure the temp of the water. If you don’t have one, no worries.

  2. Place your honey in the pot, preferably in a glass jar or other heat-safe container

  3. Using the low setting, bring the water up to about 110F, or just until it starts bubbling

  4. Turn the heat off

  5. Once the heat starts to drop, use the low setting to bring the water back up to 110F

  6. Repeat as needed until honey is fully decrystalized, indicated by darker color and gooeyness when stirring

Recipes

Yogurt Bowl

Ingredients:

  • Melon of your choosing

  • Yogurt of your choosing

  • Lyle’s Locals Honey

  • Granola

Instructions:

  1. Pour yogurt into bowl

  2. Slice melon in half

  3. Scoop out seeds

  4. Slice melon halves into wedges

  5. Cut into wedges to divide into pieces, not cutting through the rind

  6. Filet wedges along the rind to get melon pieces

  7. Put melon pieces into bowls onto yogurt

  8. Pour honey over melons and yogurt

  9. Pour granola over melons, honey, and yogurt

  10. Enjoy! ☺️

Jamaica Sun Tea

Ingredients:

  • Jamaica flowers 1/2 lb or a few handfuls (the more you add, the more concentrated the tea will be)

  • Lyle’s Locals Honey (1 lb/gallon of water)

  • Water (1 gallon/lb of honey)

  • Large steeping vessel (at least translucent if not transparent)

Instructions:

  1. Pour honey into your large steeping vessel

  2. Add hibiscus flowers

  3. Pour water into vessel

  4. Set out into the sun, and let steep for hours until sufficiently imbued. The earlier in the day you start, the better, to get as much sun as possible

  5. Enjoy! ☺️

Catching Swarms

Here Lyle demonstrates how to capture a swarm by moving the queen from a fence to a new hive.

Backyard Bees

Local bees, local hives, local honey.

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Contact Lyle

Lyle@LylesLocals.com
(774) 282-0268

630 Peña Drive
Davis, CA 95616