BARKMAN HONEY, LLC
HILLSBORO, KS

We are Barkman Honey We are honeybee people – avid supporters of the little magical creatures who generously share their sweet bounty. with Esra Barkman in the 1920s. His love of bees prompted him to hop a train from Kansas to Oregon, where he mastered his craft working in the bee yards. He returned to Hillsboro, Kansas, and started a family tradition of selling honey beginning in World War II when sugar was rationed. In the late 50s Esra shared beekeeping with his son, Richard. With increased demand, they founded Barkman Honey Company in 1960. Its flagship brand, at the heart of our company. Today, Barkman Honey continues to be a beekeeper-owned family business that maintains operations in Artesian, South Dakota, a 60-year tradition that has helped the family grow their honeybee advocacy and preserve bee culture for future generations. We are Barkman Honey We are honeybee people – avid supporters of the little magical creatures who generously share their sweet bounty. with Esra Barkman in the 1920s. His love of bees prompted him to hop a train from Kansas to Oregon, where he mastered his craft working in the bee yards. He returned to Hillsboro, Kansas, and started a family tradition of selling honey beginning in World War II when sugar was rationed. In the late 50s Esra shared beekeeping with his son, Richard. With increased demand, they founded Barkman Honey Company in 1960. Its flagship brand, at the heart of our company. Today, Barkman Honey continues to be a beekeeper-owned family business that maintains operations in Artesian, South Dakota, a 60-year tradition that has helped the family grow their honeybee advocacy and preserve bee culture for future generations. Mission: Protect the Honeybees At Barkman Honey, our focus goes beyond honey production. We’re on a mission to safeguard and sustain honeybees, for the livelihood of beekind and humankind alike. Habitat preservation helps ensure that bees have the environment they need not just to survive – but to thrive in harmony. Beekeeper recruitment helps build a solid base of next-generation bee advocates and honey producers. Chinese honey made its way to grocery stores across America? Most times this honey was contaminated with cheap sugar syrup like high fructose corn syrup and residue from harmful antibiotics and pesticides. Barkman Honey has led the charge in combating this illegal and adulterated honey through the Of course all Barkman Honey is True Source Certified and fully No one has a more focused commitment to product safety than Barkman Honey. The results speak for themselves. They’re also backed by a sizeable investment in safety training, equipment and processes. There are more than 300 varieties of flowers in the world that provide nectar for making honey. That’s why rigorous testing for impurities along with proper color, moisture and flavor isn’t just essential in maintaining product specifications and Food Quality Program standards - it’s vital to providing you consistently delicious honey, bottle after bottle. As the only system to ensure both food safety and quality criteria, this certification provides a product specification which must be in compliance for every batch of product – or we won’t ship it. We’ve even created the Extracting Facility Survey, a tool used to develop industry best practices and help honey producers grade their facilities, leading to improved overall quality. This auditing tool was shared and has since been adopted for industry-wide use by the NHB Quality Assurance Committee and endorsed by the USDA. At Barkman Honey, our company is our hive – an environment that fosters collaboration, camaraderie and community service. Our H1VE program is all about growing our most valuable assets – our team members. Together we thrive by focusing on three key areas that we believe make a difference in the lives of our team and make the world a better place: – Our values are what make us as a company and a collective of people working toward a shared goal. It’s the reason we’re devoted to ethical practices, lasting relationships, team member support, respecting our earth and service to our community. Using recycled material in the production of our products, from containers to cases to closures. Whether it's providing meals for a grieving family or celebrating the arrival of a new baby, we strive to become an extended family. Our "We Care" program encourages benevolent giving and participation on the part of our team. An employee assistance program and paid time off donation opportunities provide team members additional support when needed. Our relationships move beyond our business into our communities through volunteer service and financial support of local needs and organizations we are deeply passionate about. Certain ideas form the character of our company. We believe that it is our core purpose to serve God with all resources entrusted to us, enlarging our territory of influence through wise stewardship and servant leadership. This core purpose has given us a set of timeless, guiding principles: To provide product and service solutions for quality minded customers. California Naked Wild Honey is produced from the beautiful San Joaquin Valley in the heart of California to farms in the Mojave Desert as far south as San Bernardino County. Honeybees are extremely important to California agriculture, with fruits, nuts and vegetables depending on bee pollination for crop production. In fact, California almonds would not exist at all without nature's honeybees doing their magic. Pan-American Naked Wild Honey is the delicious result of millions of tireless honeybees foraging nectar sources throughout the United States, Argentina and Canada. In addition to common American sources, including clover, basswood, citrus, cotton and tallow, Canadian honeybees commonly enjoy access to such plants as canola, buckwheat and blueberry. Argentina has a wide diversity of floral species to choose from, including citrus, chilca and eucalyptus in the subtropical northern provinces, as well as clover and sunflower in the prairie provinces. And most important, each locale provides an almost infinite variety of wildflowers. Interestingly, each year brings about a different combination of floral sources and flavors as varying temperatures and rainfall totals favor different flowering plants across these vast landscapes