Ontario's honey harvest is in. Yes, mother nature's unadorned sweetener does have a season: Think of it as a cycle that rushes in with the honeybee's starter source of food – spring blooms and blossoms – then ploughs through summer's heat and finally dwindles with a long, last supper as flowers begin to fade.

"There are not so many flowers left now," says Florin Zidaru of Bees Universe, from behind his nectar-laden stall at a farmers' market earlier this week. "This is the end of a season that begins in June and finishes this month with the honey harvest. We're gathering the last of the honey next week."

Zidaru works with his brother and sister-in-law, Ion (John) and Irina Alecu, who co-own the five-year-old Bees Universe farm near Innisfil, just south of Barrie. Together with their mother and other family members, they tend to nearly 300 hives on different plots located near conservation areas. Coming to market is their wildflower honey that Florin proudly calls "raw."

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