Bushkill Farms and Apiary is a family run operation with 3 generations of beekeepers and over 60 years of beekeeping experience. We are located near the Ashokan Reservoir within New York state's Catskill Park. Our bees are not treated with antibotics, miticides, or hormones. This, combined with the fact that our bees are not within flying range of any commercial crops that may be sprayed, allows us to provide the purest, unadulterated wild flower honey from the Catskill Mountains.
Think twice before you decide to kill honeybees. First of all, honeybees are vital to our food supply. Roughly 30% of the food you eat has been pollinated by honeybees. If you have been following the news lately, you are probably aware of the perils the honeybee is facing with Colony Collapse Disorder and the effects it can cause to our food supply.
Tributyltin (also known as TBT), a ubiquitous pollutant that has a potent effect on gene activity, could be promoting obesity, according to an article in the December issue of BioScience, the journal of the American Institute of Biological Sciences. The chemical is used in antifouling paints for boats, as a wood and textile preservative, and as a pesticide on high-value food crops, among many other applications.
