Paskapoo Honey

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About us

Paskapoo Honey is a small family owned apiary located in Calgary's Paskapoo Slopes. We produce top-quality, small-batch, local, raw, unpasteurized, soft-set honey that is never mechanically filtered, meaning it contains healthy live enzymes and traces of local pollen.

Soft-set Honey?

Soft-set is like the silky, sophisticated cousin of regular honey. It’s made by controlling the crystallization process to create a smooth, spreadable texture—no more hard, gritty chunks that make your toast feel like sandpaper. But the benefits don’t stop at its dreamy consistency! Here’s why soft-set is a step above the rest:

Luxuriously Smooth Texture

Unlike traditional honey, which will crystallize and become solid over time, soft-set honey is gently stirred to perfection in a holy-crap-that-was-expensive machine for up to a month (really!). It spreads like butter, making it the ideal partner for toast, bagels, and biscuits.

Zero Drip, Zero Mess

Tired of honey that dribbles, drips, and leaves a sticky crime scene in your kitchen? soft-set honey stays put. It’s neat, tidy, and perfectly portable for on-the-go sweetness.

Same Nutritional Goodness

Don’t let the fancy name fool you—soft-set honey retains all the enzymes, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants of regular raw honey. You’re still getting that healthy boost in a smoother, more delightful form.

Extended Shelf Stability

The controlled crystallization process of soft-set honey prevents large, gritty crystals from forming over time, so it stays smooth and creamy for longer. That means no reheating or waiting around for your honey to de-crystallize.

More Versatile in the Kitchen

Its thick, velvety texture makes soft-set honey perfect not only as a spread but also as an ingredient in frostings, marinades, and desserts. It’s easier to measure, blend, and control, compared to the rock-hardness of crystalized honey.

Soft-set is proof that you can have it all—natural goodness and modern convenience.

Want to buy some honey?

We sell soft-set honey in 1 Kg (2.2 Lbs) containers for $30.

Contact David for more details

Tips & facts about honey & bees

• Honey should never be microwaved as this kills the healthy enzymes contained within the honey.
• Honey does not go bad, and does not need to be refrigerated. Refrigerating our honey will make it harder, counteracting the benefits of it being soft-set.
• Honey stores ~3.5 kWh of metabolic energy per kg.
• Each hexagonal honeycomb cell can serve as either a storehouse for nectar/honey or pollen, or a nest for larvae.
• It takes the entire lives of 36 honeybees to produce one tablespoon of honey.
• it takes nectar sourced from about 2 million flowers to make just one pound of honey.
• Honey bees have five eyes and six legs, and can fly at a speed of 24 km/h.
• That buzzing sound you hear when a honeybee comes near? That’s the sound of its wings beating up to 240 times per second!
• Depending on the time of year, one hive can contain up to 80,000 individuals – mostly female workers/foragers, a few hundred male drones, and one queen.
• Over winter there are no drones in the colony. In spring, the queen will lay specific eggs that hatch into male bees for that summer
• Female worker bees live for only 6 weeks, male drones live up to 8 weeks, and the queen can live for several years.
• One bee produces about 0.00011 horsepower.
• A bee colony uses honey through winter just to keep warm, equivalent to a 100-watt heater running 24/7.