Ontario Honey Creations is the sister company of Toronto Bee Rescue, both of which are family-run businesses, co-founded by Sarah Allinson-Chorabik and her husband, Peter. One of the coolest things about their product line and operation is that they dedicate a portion of all their sales towards their free honey bee swarm removal service offered by Toronto Bee Rescue! This service aims to humanely remove honey bee swarms from residential or commercial spaces and relocate them to more suitable locations.
As part of a community of chefs, farmers and foodies, we cannot emphasize enough how important initiatives such as the Toronto Bee Rescue swarm removal service are. Honey bee colonies are facing alarming collapse – Ontario alone faced a 58% winter mortality colony collapse over 2013/2014. The work Sarah and Peter do through the Toronto Bee Rescue is something we whole-heartedly support here at 100km Foods. We all need honeybees! Not only because their ecological role is crucial for pollination, but also because, well, honey is just the most delicious thing ever!
Ontario Honey Creation’s apiaries are located throughout Toronto and the GTA, and they harvest separately based on time of year in the spring, summer and fall. One of their apiaries is right in the Rouge Valley, so their products truly couldn’t be more local!
They use the honey they harvest to create artisanal honey vinegars, through a static fermentation process, which are then aged for six months before bottling. The garlic in the Honey Garlic Vinegar is also grown on their own family hobby farm. We now carry four distinct varieties of these vinegars – the original Honey Vinegar, Honey Apple Vinegar, Honey Raspberry Vinegar and Honey Garlic Vinegar.
Paul, Grace and the office staff tried out these vinegars and we were all impressed by the flavour and deliciousness of these products that we decided right then they would be our next feature. icon on our website, or to the brand new category of honey vinegars to add them to your cart and try them out!
Thanks so much to Ontario Honey Creations, and in particular Sarah Allinson-Chorbik, for providing us with such fantastic information about their operation!