Our Story

Wild Tree Bee Company was founded in Temecula, California, with a simple belief: the best honey comes from healthy bees, clean landscapes, and a deep respect for nature.

We produce small-batch, bloom-specific raw honey harvested exclusively from our honey farm and  apiaries across Southern California. Rather than blending honey to create a uniform flavor profile, we celebrate the unique character of each harvest, capturing the distinct flavors, aromas, and colors shaped by the season, landscape, and floral source. Every jar offers a genuine taste of place and the purest expression of raw honey, exactly as nature intended.

For the Kennedy family, beekeeping started with a handful of hives tucked into an organic citrus orchard in the foothills of Temecula. What began as a way to care for the land quickly became an obsession with understanding honey in its purest form. As each season passed, we watched the bees transform the nectar of citrus blossoms, wildflowers, buckwheat, coastal blooms, and native California plants into honey with remarkably different colors, aromas, and flavors.

It changed the way we thought about honey forever.

We realized that the honey found on most grocery store shelves rarely reflects the place it came from. Much of today's commercial honey is blended from countless sources to create the same flavor, color, and texture year after year. In the process, the individuality of each harvest, the character of the landscape, the bloom, and the season, is lost.

We believed there was a better way.

At Wild Tree Bee Company, every harvest is kept separate. We never blend different blooms together to create consistency. Instead, we allow each honey to express the landscape where our bees foraged, preserving the subtle differences that make every season unique. Like a fine wine or single-origin coffee, every jar reflects its own terroir., the unmistakable influence of climate, soil, native botanicals, and time.

Today our family cares for apiaries throughout Southern California, from organic citrus groves and coastal hillsides to wildflower-filled valleys and remote desert landscapes. Every location offers bees a different palette of blossoms, allowing us to produce an ever-changing collection of bloom-specific honeys that simply cannot be replicated.

This is the honey we believe nature intended: raw, unfiltered, never pasteurized, and harvested in small batches with respect for the bees that make it possible.

We're proud to share our family's harvest with yours, and we hope every jar gives you something increasingly rare—a true taste of California, exactly as the bees created it.

Follow our journey on Instagram @WildTreeBeeCo to see our hives, our harvests, and the bees behind every jar.