
Stiles Honey

Our Story
Stiles Honey officially opened for business in 1995 as Stiles Apiaries, but really started as an eight year old boy’s love of the outdoors and sharing his father’s hobby.
Grant Stiles was just a boy when his father first introduced him to beekeeping,
and from his first moment of looking inside his first hive,
Grant was hooked on honeybees and beekeeping.
What started as a young boy’s hobby has now grown into one of the most successful apiaries in the New York/New Jersey area, with Stiles Honey currently managing well-over 4,000 honeybee colonies a year.
Beekeeping is a reoccurring theme in Grant’s life, as he paid for much of his college education at Penn State by selling beeswax candles and hand painted beeswax ornaments.
He graduated with a degree in entomology, where his emphasis & research was honeybee.
As an entomologist with a passion for bees, Grant became the New Jersey State Apiarist, a position he held for 10 years. During his tenure as state apiarist, Grant learned about the industry of commercial beekeeping and obtained the tools he needed to successfully run Stiles Honey.
Stiles Honey is proud to be producing and packing our local honey for distribution, in the NJ and NY markets. Stiles Honey is also sold across the country, and as a national distributor, we are the largest honey producer and packer in New Jersey.
Using our superior tasting honey, Stiles Honey is a leading co-packer for other honey products and labels, including the ever-popular Mikes Hot Honey.
Stiles Honey is the beekeepers one-stop-shop for bees, beekeeping equipment, and honey packaging supplies.
We are the area’s leading nuc producer, and every spring we supply New Jersey beekeepers with quality bees to start a new hive, or replace any winter losses.
To better serve area beekeepers, in 2015 we became an authorized Mann Lake bee equipment dealer, providing a local resource for all your equipment needs.

News & Videos
Grant is a Certified Master Beekeeper and has been putting his skills to good use
Grant is a Certified Master Beekeeper and has been putting his skills to good use in his honey producing, packaging and distribution business. Started as a part-time effort, Grant has been working at it full-time since 2013. With demand increasing for his pollination services and honey products, it was time for him to move to larger quarters. An SBA 504 loan from UCEDC and his bank allowed him to get the money he needed to purchase a new building with only 10% down. His savings are a real boost to Grant’s cash flow and business operations.
UCEDC Annual Highlights 2016
Mike’s hot chili-infused honey spicing up condiment craze
CBS NEWS January 20, 2015, 7:02 AM
One man looking to spice up condiments is cashing in on America’s changing appetite.
Last year “CBS This Morning” got a behind-the-scenes look at the factory behind the fiery red sauce with a rooster on the bottle. But as CBS News correspondent Vladimir Duthiers reports, Sriracha’s not the only dressing delighting spicy food lovers. Michael Kurtz was working as a part-time pizza apprentice when he realized his own homemade hot condiment might be the next thing to stick.
Hot sauce: the condiment with a kick, is on fire. It’s one of the fastest growing industries in the U.S. with sales of over a billion dollars. But Kurtz is hoping the collision of spicy and sweet will be the next flavor Americans savor. The food world is already buzzing over his chili-infused honey, and it’s finding its way onto tables and shelves nationwide.
“I was a college student in Brazil and in this town there was a pizzeria, that had jars of honey on tables with whole chilies,” The memory of that honey-drizzled pizza followed him all the way to Paulie Gee’s in Brooklyn, New York. One day he brought the Brazilian novelty to his boss at the pizzeria, who loved it. He added it to a pie, and dubbed it...
“The Hellboy.”
“They’d ask for a little to-go container. So, initially I was just selling people little tiny plastic containers out of the restaurant,” Kurtz said. As demand grew, he expanded production beyond Paulie Gee’s kitchen. “The hardest part of operating a small business is scaling up,”
Kurtz found a local apiary that supplied the wildflower honey. “We run around 4,000 colonies of bees for honey production and pollination purposes,” beekeeper Grant Stiles said. He now adds the sting to the honey as well.
The process includes warming the honey so it can mix with the chili peppers and then running that mix through a special filtration process. It all ends up in a tank to be bottled as the the final product. Andrew Knowlton, restaurant editor at Bon Appétit magazine, has been tracking the growth of hot sauces and the trend of small purveyor gourmet condiments.
“What it has is, it’s got heat and it’s got sweet, and those — that’s a magical combination that I think the American palate right now is driven towards,” Knowlton said. “The best thing that can happen to Mike’s Hot Honey is you have influencers using it.”
Mike’s Hot Honey has grown through word of mouth alone. It’s now in retail stores and pizzerias across the country and as far away as Kuwait. Chefs are using it in everything from deviled eggs to fried chicken, quinoa and panna cotta. Bartenders are even mixing it into cocktails, including at New York City’s Mandarin Oriental.
But Kurtz said with success, comes competition, and his isn’t the only hot honey on the market. “We fully anticipated that others would try to copy us at some point,” he said. That’s why he asked his spicy secrets not be revealed.
Kurtz said he wants to keep growing his business. Last year sales doubled, but he’d like to go from selling tens of thousands of bottles, to many more. Just a few weeks ago, he received his biggest order yet from Williams Sonoma, for stores in the U.S., Canada and Australia.
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Each year 2.5 million honeybee colonies crisscross the country, traveling from farm to farm, from the almond orchards of California to the blueberry fields of New Jersey, with one crucial job - to pollinate America’s crops.
The pollination services these bees provide produces one third of our food and increases crop value in the U.S. by 15 billion dollars annually. Yet, few ever see these bees at work or know how the beekeeping industry that maintains them has been pushed to the brink of devastation.
(Video by Adya Beasley | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)
Grant Stiles
Nucleus Hives Presentation @ New Jersey Beekeepers
Stiles Apiary | WPBS Weekly: Inside the Stories

Educational
Please Join
Grant Stiles, Tim Schuler & Jeff Burd
"Beekeeping 101.5"
Novice Level 2 Day Class
This 2 Day class is for novice beekeepers that have up to two years experience
2 Day Classes Are $275 Per Person
Topics Included
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Bee Biology
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Basic Equipment
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Locations
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Bee Plant
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My Hive Is Queen-less,
What Do I Do Now?
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Timeliness
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Interesting Honeybee Behavior
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What Is Healthy Brood?
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Nucs and Packages
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Seasonal Management
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Honey Extracting
Dates & Locations
Friday June 16th, 9AM to 4PM
Saturday June 17th, 9AM to 4PM
That Honey Place
511 New Brunswick Avenue
Woodbridge Township, NJ 08863
Saturday July 15th, 9AM to 4PM
Sunday July 16th, 9AM to 4PM
Schuler's Bees
135 West Jersey Boulevard
Richland, NJ 08350
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Contact Us
Our Store
Stiles Apiaries LLC
859 King George Road
Fords, NJ 08863
Opening Hours
Monday - Friday: 9AM-2PM
Saturday: CLOSED
Sunday: CLOSED