The Field Guideby Moss & MarrowThe Field Guideby Moss & Marrow
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This page is The Field Guide's list of beekeepers in the Netherlands selling their own honey, each one checked by us and grouped by province. Honey is on this page when the beekeeper who keeps the bees sells it, whether from a farm shop, a market stall or their home. Beekeeping supply shops and associations aren't included. A home seller is listed only when the beekeeper has made the location public themselves, on their own website, social media or Google Maps; otherwise we ask first.
Bees forage across the land around their hives, so buying from the beekeeper ties the honey to a known place and person, and to how the farmland around it is managed.
78 producers · every one checked against our inclusion criteria
Open on the map →78 producers across 4 provinces, most of them in Utrecht (32), Gelderland (24) and Zuid-Holland (11). Each entry opens the producer's own page with what we checked, when we checked it, opening hours and how to buy; the names are listed by province, town by town, and the map lets you search the same list by postcode.
Raw honey (rauwe honing) has no legal definition in the EU, so the word on a jar isn't checked by anyone. Most beekeepers who sell their own honey spin it out of the combs and strain it without heating, which is what people usually mean by raw, but the only way to know is to ask. Each listing on our local honey page says how the beekeeper describes the honey, where they publish it.
Koudgeslingerd means cold-spun: the beekeeper uncaps the combs and spins the honey out in a centrifuge (honingslinger) without heating it, then strains it to remove wax. Slingeren is the usual way Dutch beekeepers extract honey. Like raw, koudgeslingerd is the beekeeper's own description, not a protected term, so we quote it on a listing as their statement.
Large honey brands buy honey from many beekeepers and countries and mix it, so the product tastes and looks the same in every jar and can be sold all year. Older jars say only "mengsel van honing uit EU-landen en niet-EU-landen" (blend of honey from EU and non-EU countries). Under EU rules that apply from June 2026, blended honey must name its countries of origin. Honey in the Field Guide comes from the beekeeper's own hives.
In the EU, every jar of honey must state the country it comes from, and a beekeeper selling their own honey usually puts their name and address on the label. Some beekeepers and shops also sell honey they bought in, which may come from elsewhere. In the Field Guide, honey is included only when it is sold by the beekeeper who keeps the bees. Our criteria for honey.
Almost all honey crystallises in time, because it holds more sugar than can stay dissolved; how fast depends on the flowers the bees visited. Rapeseed honey sets within weeks, while some honeys stay runny for months. Crystallised honey hasn't gone off, and warming the jar gently in a bowl of warm water makes it liquid again. Creamed honey (crèmehoning or romige honing) is honey stirred while it crystallises, so it sets soft and spreadable.
Dutch honey is usually named after the season or the main flowers the bees visited: spring honey (voorjaarshoning) from fruit blossom, willow and rapeseed, summer honey (zomerhoning) from lime trees, clover and wildflowers, and heather honey (heidehoning) from heathland such as the Veluwe in late summer. Each beekeeper's range depends on where the hives stand. Local honey on the map.
Honey is hard to certify as organic in the Netherlands, because EU organic rules require the plants within 3 km of the hives to be mainly organic crops or wild vegetation, and bees fly where they like. A beekeeper can still be certified when the hives stand in a nature reserve or among organic farms. We check every organic claim in the EU organic register. How we check organic status.
Yes, many Dutch beekeepers sell from home, from a table by the door or an honesty stall (unmanned, with a cash box). We list a home seller or honesty stall only when the beekeeper has published the location themselves, on their own website, social media or Google Maps, and otherwise we ask first. The listing says which kind of sale it is. Self-service honey.
Some do, and many sell beeswax candles, blocks of wax or wax wraps next to the honey. In the Field Guide, these appear on the listing under "They also make". They are shown so you know they are there, but they aren't assessed, never decide whether a beekeeper is listed and don't appear as a filter. Labels on a listing.
Honey is included when it is sold by the beekeeper who keeps the bees, whether from a farm shop, a home sale, a market stall or a webshop. Beekeeping supply shops and beekeeping associations (imkerverenigingen) aren't included, and nor is honey a shop buys in from elsewhere. We check each beekeeper from their own website, social media or labels, and each listing shows the month we checked it. What we accept as evidence.
Royal jelly (koninginnengelei) is rarely produced in the Netherlands; most jars sold here are imported, often from China, and processed into capsules or mixed into honey. A few beekeepers harvest small amounts in late spring and sell it fresh or frozen to people who ask, so the surest route is the beekeeper. We don't check royal jelly as a separate product; our honey page lists beekeepers who sell their own honey, each listing says what else they make, and asking them is the way to find out.