Meet Your Honey: Fahey Family Honey Farm

Down a long dirt road in Pownal, Vermont, Antoine and Kelli Fahey and their children keep bees. They started in 2011 with two hives in the backyard. Today they manage more than 300, spread across several family farms in the Pownal valley.

Antoine learned beekeeping as a boy, on his family’s homestead in upstate New York. It’s been his full-time work ever since. Beyond honey, the family raises nucleus colonies and queen bees for other beekeepers. Their four kids are homeschooled, and they’re often out in the bee yards too — small hands helping during harvest.

Tending hives in one of the Faheys’ bee yards.

I met Kelli at the North Adams Farmers Market. We got to talking, and what stuck with me was simple: a small, local family operation, focused on doing one thing well.

The honey is raw wildflower, unheated. Skipping pasteurization keeps the flavor the bees actually made instead of flattening it out.

You’ll find it on our shelves now.

The Fahey Family Honey Farm table at market.