Proprietary Honeys
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Central Texas Wildflower (In Store Only)
The Honey: Walker’s Central Texas Wildflower Honey is a medium bodied honey that varies slightly in flavor from season to season. Take some every day for good health. Some research suggests that regular consumption of honey produced in your locale may help alleviate allergy symptoms. For a classic every-day digestion and general well-being tonic mix equal parts Walker’s Local Honey, apple cider vinegar, and water. To this tonic, add your favorite fruit juice and water for a refreshing any-time beverage.
The Plants: Walker’s Central Texas Wildflower Honey is our only bee-mixed multi-floral honey. As such, it contains honey that our bees have made locally from several different plants. Indian Blanket (Gaillardia Pulchella)—a striking Texas wildflower—makes a golden light amber honey with a buttery taste. As the Gaillardia is in mid-bloom in early June, another native wildflower, Horsemint or Bee Balm (Monarda sps.) reaches full flower. Horsemint honey is very clear and provides an acidic tinge to the natural blend.
The Provenance (place): Walker’s Central Texas Wildflower Honey is produced in our own back yard. Our bees are dispersed from Austin to Waco along the eastern edge of the Texas Hill Country and throughout the Blacklands to the east of Interstate 35. So if you live in Bell, Falls, McClennan, Milam (West of the Little River), Williamson, or Travis Counties, this is your local honey. Enjoy!
Central Texas Yaupon Holly - Limited Availability
The Honey: Yaupon Holly Honey is less sweet than most honeys. It has a slight bitterness which balances the natural sweetness of honey. A medium to full-bodied honey, Walker’s Yaupon Honey is a great complement to Pancakes, Waffles, or Toast; or stir it into Oatmeal with Oliver Pecan Co. pecan halves and apples or raisins.
The Plant: Our bees gather nectar from the Yaupon Holly (Ilex vomitoria) that grows in the understory of the Post Oak Savannah region of Central and East Texas. Yaupon trees bloom from late March to mid April. For many centuries, native Texans have made a dark, caffeine-rich drink from the dried leaves of Yaupon Holly, prompting the exploring Spanish to name the tree chocolate del Indio.
The Provenance: We locate our beehives on farms and ranches in Burleson, Lee and Milam Counties to produce this specialty honey. Our Yaupon Holly Honey is harvested immediately after the bloom period so that we can offer the purest Yaupon Honey. Because our bees will soon be gathering nectar from later-blooming plants in the same area, delaying the harvest even a few days would compromise the uniqueness of this honey. Our small batch, artisanal treatment of this unique honey gives us confidence that you will not find a better, more pure, presentation of Yaupon Holly Honey anywhere in Texas. Grandpa “Clint” Walker started our family business producing Yaupon Holly Honey. Please allow our Walker Family’s three generations and seventy-five plus years of Yaupon Holly Honey experience to be your warranty of quality. Enjoy!
From Our Beekeeper Friends
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American Wildflower
The Honey: Wildflower Honey is often referred to as "Poly-floral" honey, meaning honey that is from multiple species of plants within forage range of a beehive. This is in contrast to many of the other honeys on this list that are "Mono-floral" honeys. Mono-floral means that the honey is almost completely from the same species of plant allowing one to identify that plant's signature taste. Wildflower honey can be from a multitude of different sources and can vary wildly...ha!...from region to region and season to season. While there can be large variations, our American Wildflower is always selected from regions that we are highly familiar with. We work in close concert with our beekeeper friends to make sure we offer the best wildflower honey you can get!
The Plant: There are a plethora of melliferous plants across the US. Wildflower honey is exactly what it sounds like: honey from a multitude of wild flowers.
The Provenance (place): Our American Wildflower is a select honey with a multitude of other nectar producing wildflowers and tree blossoms. We scour the country for the best tasting wildflower honey each year. Our most common sources are South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota, California, Texas and even Hawaii!!!
Clover
The Honey: Clover Honey is the most widely produced honey in the United States. This popularity is due to its abundance and overall appealing flavor. Unlike most honey that is labeled “Clover”, Walker’s Clover Honey is not a blend of clover and other honeys. If you have never experienced pure Clover Honey, we invite you to try a sample or a jar. Some people describe pure, unblended Clover Honey as “smooth” or even “buttery”. However it happens to strike your palate, we think you will see why Clover Honey is one of our most popular varieties. Use Clover Honey anytime, anywhere for a silky-smooth and sweet addition to foods and drinks.
The Plant: Clover Honey is primarily produced from what is commonly called “yellow sweet clover.” An exotic plant—native to Russia—clover has become an important forage plant for cattle as well as an excellent honey plant.
The Provenance (place): The best Clover Honey in the US is produced in the Midwest. Commercial Beekeepers in Texas will make Tallow honey here on the Gulf Coast of Texas and then move their bees up to the Dakotas and Montana to make large clover honey crops. While Walker Honey Farm no longer travels with our bees, we take advantage of our Texas Beekeeper friends to make some delicious Midwestern Clover for us!
Huajillo
The Honey: Huajillo Honey is a beautiful white honey that often has a cloudy tint to it. This honey is a sweet and smoky tasting honey with slight cinnamon and peach notes.
The Plants: A cousin to the Mesquite, Huajillo (Not Guajillo…and don’t let anyone tell you differently.) is a desert shrub with curved thorns and round whitish-yellow flowers.
The Provenance: Uvalde County and the surrounding areas have long been the best location for this world famous honey.
Buckwheat
The Honey: Buckwheat Honey has a robust, full-bodied flavor and is dark amber in color. This honey is made by the gathered nectar from the small white flowers on the Buckwheat grain. Buckwheat Honey is higher in anti-oxidants than some other honeys and has been used for centuries to help soothe a sore throat or a cough. Buckwheat Honey is a great choice for baking bread and provides a wonderful contrast for your taste buds when drizzled on fresh fruit.
The Plants: Buckwheat Honey comes from the Buckwheat plant, which despite its name, is not actually related to wheat. When in bloom it appears as a small shrub with a white flower.
The Provenance (place): Pacific Northwest
Tallow
The Honey: Tallow Tree Honey has a slight bitterness which balances the natural sweetness of honey, Tallow Honey is a medium to full-bodied honey.
The Plant: On the coastal prairie along the Texas Gulf Coast grows a tree that was introduced into the Houston area in the 1950s as an ornamental landscaping tree. The Chinese Tallow Tree (Triadica sebifera) has a beautiful red heart shaped leaves in the fall along the coast making it one of the few trees to "true colors" in that area. Surely this was why it was imported...for it is fall showiness.
Now, it has become an invasive weed along the coast from the Louisiana border down past Lake Jackson and inland for a hundred miles or so in places. Cattle ranches fight it. Municipalities spend tax dollars trying to eradicate it. But honey bees and beekeepers love it. The golden tags literally drip nectar from them mid-May to mid-June every year
The Provenance: Texas Gulf Coast
Mesquite
The Honey: Mesquite Honey is slightly floral and pleasantly mild, and is very light in color as it actually happens to be our lightest honey in both flavor and color out of our varietals.
The Plants: Mesquite Honey comes from the Honey Mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa) and the Screwbean Mesquite (Prosopis pubescens).
The Provenance (place): Our Mesquite Honey comes from the Deserts Southwest of the US and Northern Mexico. It needs specific drought conditions in order to produce the nectar for the bees to harvest, so while there are plenty of Mesquite trees around Texas, the weather conditions won't benefit the harvest unless there are severe drought conditions.
Orange Blossom
The Honey: Orange Blossom Honey is packed with flavanols (the stuff that you taste and smell) that explode on your taste buds. This varietal tastes and smells like an orange grove in full bloom. Orange Honey is good straight from the spoon and is the perfect complement to hot tea. It is an excellent topping for fresh fruit salad—just slice your favorite seasonal fruit, drizzle on Walker’s Orange Blossom Honey and enjoy!
The Plant: Our Orange Blossom Honey is produced from the nectar of the same blooms that yield the succulent oranges that you enjoy throughout the year. Wherever oranges are grown and produced, there are beekeepers taking advantage of this March blooming cultivated citrus plant. Orange Blossom Honey is produced across the Southern U.S. in the citrus groves of California, Texas, Mexico and Florida.
The Provenance (place): From 1942 to 1992 Walker Honey Farm produced Orange Blossom Honey in the Citrus Groves of the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. Since then we have shopped for the best Orange Honey to deliver to our customers. We are committed to using our 50 years of Walker family experience producing Orange Honey to bring you the best of this sub-tropical specialty honey. Inquire about our current supply as the origin varies year-to-year as we buy only the best offerings each season.
Raspberry Blossom
The Honey: Raspberry Blossom Honey is a medium sweet honey with a unique berry finish. . It pairs great with tea and chocolate. This honey will shine when coupled with anything you would pair with fresh raspberries! If you're looking for honey+fruit, check out our Raspberry Creamed Honey!
The Plants: Raspberry Blossom Honey has no fruit added to it. It gets the slight raspberry note from the nectar of the raspberry bush blossom.
The Provenance: This honey is made in the raspberry fields of Washington state
Avocado Blossom Honey
The Honey: Avocado Blossom Honey is a dark amber honey that is bold tasting but surprisingly still smooth with an earthy sweetness reminiscent of molasses but without the lingering bitterness.
The Plants: Avocado trees produce a large amount of nectar to keep bees invested in visiting their blossoms and acting as pollinators. Avocado pollination occurs in a very short window for each blossom and bees are essential in aiding the process.
The Provenance: Our Avocado Blossom honey comes from the avocado orchards of Mexico.
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