Binnen in de Bijenkorf: Kauai Honing en Bijen Tour

I highly recommend this tour. Jess and Christine were wonderful and full of knowledge. They were both very passionate about caring for the bees. If you have never tasted honey straight from the hive, then you definitely need to do this tour!

Jess and Ronnie were our guides and are clearly passionate about the farm and bees but also about everyone enjoying the tour and getting what they want! There were so many offers for pictures, regular check in with an individual struggling in bee suit and general conversation and welcoming of questions. Eating honeycomb fresh from the frame and tasting honey is really a bonus.

We got to harvest a frame of honey and they gave us the honey in a little jar that is travel approved.

This was 11/10! Jess and Ronnie were LOVELY and taught us so much about hawaii, bees and the local plants. I would 100% do this tour and would love to do it again.

The tour is so much more than just seeing bee hives. Even if you are not a honey fan the interesting information provided by our tour guides Ronnie and Christine is worth the price to help support one of the most important parts of our food chain. Being able to see the bees in action close up and seeing the end result of their hard work was amazing. Even more amazing was tasting the difference between honey from a variety of plants the bees collected the pollen from.

Ronnie and Jasmine were our guides and they did a great job introducing us to the bees and their hives. I had previous experience as a beekeeper but the rest of our group did not and our guides made a point of putting everyone at ease with their explanations of bee behavior and biology. The bees in the hive we opened were exceptionally calm and docile and I believe everyone felt comfortable around them. The honey tasting at the end of the tour was also a great experience and I suspect many in the group had never tasted raw honey straight from the comb! The comparison between the taste and texture of the real honey and the store-bought “honey-like product” was illuminating and likely convinced the whole group to only buy the real thing going forward. All in all this was an experience well worth doing for those with even a modest interest in bees and honey!

6/5 recommend if you have any curiosities about honey or bees! We were able to get really close to the bees, try some fresh honey, and explore part of their farm. Learned so much and tried some of the best honey ever. Also got to take home some.

This is an excellent tour! McKenna and Jess were our tour guides/bee keepers. They are friendly, knowledgeable, and love what they do. We were given bee keeper suits to wear while visiting the apiary. Our guides gave excellent instruction on how to approach the hives and were respectful as to when to open the hive during our visit. It happened to rain during our visit to the apiary, which was an unexpected but an incredible opportunity. After visiting the bees, we had a tasting of fresh honey and honeycomb, and four different honeys. The directions to get to the farm were sent via email and were very helpful, as were the signs as we got close to the location. I highly recommend this tour!

It’s such an informative tour. Ronny and Jessie were very attentive and knowledgeable about bees, hives and honey. Very interesting tour since we love honey.

We loved this! Makenna is so knowledgeable and made us hungry for more knowledge about bees and working an apiary. She is wonderfully fun as well. Jasmine was her assisting guide and also great. We don’t realize we’d be able to hold a frame and then taste honey with the comb directly from that frame. I am quite nervous about bees. They made everyone so comfortable I didn’t want it to end. Thank you for making this available!