FAQ Fox Honey Farm

All honey (except Tupelo) sooner or later will crystallize, harden, and become creamy. This is normal and even a mandatory process for almost all honey. After that, honey becomes even more delicious and easy to spread as well. Honey naturally self-crystallizes over time and self-preserves for even thousands of years, and honey never goes bad. Some pure honey like acacia may be liquid for a year; others like sunflower honey harden even within a few days after the bees have collected it. In China, there is a honey that hardens within hours after extraction. It is poured into a bucket, and a stick is placed in the middle. The stick is used to pull the honey right out of the Honey buckets, put the honey on a rope with a rocker, and is then carried to the market. And everyone knows this honey and knows that it is the freshest.

If you wish to have liquid honey on the table, you can carefully warm the honey till it becomes liquid again. This can be done by putting the jar of honey in a white Styrofoam cooler (not plastic). Pour hot water from the tap, fill it to within one inch of the top, and close the cooler (Sometimes cooler might leak, so it is best to leave it in the sink overnight). Hot water will warm up the honey slowly, and in the morning, you will find honey liquid and lukewarm. This process does not damage the honey and can be repeated as many times as you would like.