Leo Halm created Leo's Honey House in 1980. He began keeping bees as a means to provide pollination for his wide variety of fruit and nut trees in his orchard in Coopers Plains, NY. He began harvesting honey in a small building on Main Street and selling his limited production to family and friends. In 1999, son Robert and granddaughter Cathy took over and expanded the operation. It is currently located on Clark Road in Campbell, NY. We have two bee yards in production totaling about 30 hives. Cathy has spent recent years studying and implementing disease control methods that don't involve pesticides, antibiotics or antifungals.

The production of high quality raw, ultra raw and comb honey for our customers continues to be our primary goal. As a byproduct of our honey production, we began generating quantities of sweet-smelling bees wax from which we create a wide variety of taper, pillar and figurine candles. Cathy was recently inspired to create a line of soaps, lip balm and hand cream using beeswax and honey. Occasionally we are able to meet demands for locally produced pollen and propolis as well as our home bred queens and nucs.

Our future endeavors will include making the honey house more tour-friendly and educational for future beekeepers. With additional expansion in the bee yard, we will begin offering pollination service to area organic and chemical-free orchards.