Marshall’s Farm Honey

I stumbled upon Marshall’s honey at a Farmer’s Market but now get it at Andronico’s.
Their honey is my favorite!
And, I like that they have separate wild flower honey for the different regions in the Bay Area. Wild flower honey is great for allergies, especially when you eat a local variation.
Allegedly they offer tours of their facility, which would be cool to do.
Tip: I heard that you aren’t supposed to stick a metal spoon in honey. So I use a wooden or ceramic one.

Ever since Her Majesty’s Secret Beekeeper closed, we’ve been seeking out local honey replacement suppliers. On a random day, I walked down to the Ferry Bldg to happily discover it was Farmer’s Market Day & Marshall’s Farm Honey had just finished setting up their stand
Chose the Bay Area Beekeeper’s Blend — the nice lady said it was their signature honey & the one all the restaurants use… how could I pass that up?
Plus, it was all local to SF & while we don’t have allergies, if we did, THIS would be the perfect honey to fight off all those nasty, nasties
This honey was so pungent & sweet & so versatile — we’ve had other honeys that are good w/​let’s say, toast but not coffee… cheese but not ice cream… you get the picture. But not this beauty! It’s paired wonderfully w/​everything we’ve tried it with, so far!
The stand was packed w/​so many little jars & they were all calling my name — but we wanted to be sure not to go overboard at first blush… of course, that didn’t mean that we didn’t go ahead & mentally line up our next indulgences…
Star Thistle, you’re totally next! Sounds so intriguing!

A friend gave me some Marshall’s Farm Honey during the holidays which was a sweet surprise.
The Mt. Tam honey is very smooth and perfect for my tea. I love using it and only wish I could get my hands on more to send to my mom who now wants to try it for herself.
I love their honey especially since it’s locally produced. I definitely have to try the other flavors and am really excited about the one with lavender.

I can’t say enough how highly I recommend this honey business. I love the new mini-​glass containers is so kitchy. I would suggest people try the Napa valley honey for a full bodied honey. I also like the Berkeley Buzz one too for a lighter flavor. They do cost more but it’s all local honey around the Bay Area.
I like that they offer a variety of jar sizes and flavors. Lots of tourists love to buy the honey sticks with different flavors.

This review is based on their lack of customer service for ordering online. The company had two different promo codes offering a discount. I tried using these codes on their website & they would not apply to the total. So I left in the «note» section of my order that I tried the codes and that they did not work. I stated in that section the codes I used, the exact ones posted. I double checked them. Another person had posted on their Facebook page that they experienced the same problem. The owner said they would remedy it, then followed up saying the codes had posted, implying there should be no problem. Well you would expect that leaving both codes in the note section, the person processing the order would have the common courtesy of applying the discount for my order… but no. Nothing was done about it, it went completely unacknowledged. Then, my phone call wasn’t returned. If more than one person tells you there’s a problem, don’t stick to your guns that everything is in working order. Read what people leave in the note section on your order form, and use common customer service sense. Going that extra bit to make a customer happy, makes all the difference– as all of us people in customer service as well as all of us customers know. I can find good honey elsewhere.
*update*
Contrary to the owner’s self-​serving comment, I did not receive a returned phone call unfortunately, and as previously stated I specifically asked in the notes section of the online order form if it could be adjusted, which I would assume it could have been had my comment been reviewed along with everything else on there. I understand there is a lot to keep up with as far as getting codes to work but this has to do with parts of an order form being overlooked, which doesn’t seem to be a technological issue. If my credit card number can be read and acknowledged, then so should the note’s section that was presumably put there for such purposes.
I am by no means a penny-​pincher, but It just would have been especially nice for the alleged discount that lured me in to be applied or refunded, considering I ordered extra things that I didn’t ever intend to, just to meet the ridiculous $ 50 order minimum that I hadn’t anticipated. A very basic customer service was not met at all. Should I have jumped through more hoops? Or should the business? Maybe I will try ordering again in the future when the company isn’t so overwhelmed with keeping up with it all and with basic service. Funny how Unilocal comments can get responded to, but there is nothing in the very impersonal owner comment attempting to rectify or compensate for the situation. The response was not even for me, but «anyone». Just plain poor and tacky customer service.

I love this company! It’s a true local business done well! They have such great products and go out of their way to service their customers! It’s so nice that they have «pollen tech» in mind for allergy relief! You can buy the honey for your region and get the pollen in the honey which has been proven to help allergies!
My favorite is the coconut honey! It adds such a nice essence to hot tea!
Great job guys!

Yes, I am a bad vegan — I love honey. My grandfather was a beekeeper and I believe in supporting local beekeepers — so much produce we enjoy is not possible without bees. Most local beekeepers who provide raw honey are kind to their bees — they don’t consider them «disposable» as some large commercial operations might.
Marshall’s has fantastic honey — a bit expensive but that’s the cost of buying at the farmers market instead of going to the beekeeper’s farm.

Ad Hoc in Yountville uses their honey. If Thomas Keller says its good. Then its must be as good as it gets. Probably not.

Marsha”s Wild Blackberry Honey is divine.
The flavor is so pronounced and strong, and it’s exhilarating to know that the honey is locally sourced from San Francisco flowers (great for allergies)
Each morning I can’t wait to adorn my steel cut oatmeal with fragrant smelling and tasting Marsha”s Farm Honey.
Trust.

Been coming here for years, so I’ve noticed the price increase over the years, which is why I give it four stars.
They always carry the eucalyptus/​acacia allergy blend which is a must for allergy sufferers. I especially like their honey label during Yom Kippur. It always makes me feel like I’m one of God’s Chosen Ones and not just a lowly Gentile.

I had my first taste of Marshall’s Farm honey at Garibaldi’s and it was instant love. Knowing only two pieces of information about the honey I had at the restaurant (one, that it was from Marshall’s Farm; two, that it was a wildflower honey), I guess that wasn’t detailed enough information to determine which honey they’d used. The wonderful woman at the farmer’s market insisted that I let my taste buds recall the exact flavor by tasting. They were all fabulous, but I recognized the fragrant wild blackberry honey like it was my own lamb!
All the honeys come from bay area counties (SF, Alameda, Contra Costa, Napa, Sonoma, Marin, Solano) — How cool is that? The unique flavor of each varietal depends on where and/​or what type of flower they honey comes from. Some are darker in color, sweeter, more floral or fruitier than others. Unlike some other raw honeys I’ve tried, Marshall’s doesn’t leave a weird aftertaste.
I don’t usually use honey much at all except for the occasional dressing or cup of tea, but I’m super excited to experiment with my sampler pack of honeys (four 3-​oz jars for $ 14)! They come in all sorts of sizes depending on your needs, and prices are super reasonable considering the quality and craftsmanship that go into each jar. Now that I’ve had such fantastic honey, I don’t think I can ever buy a bear-​shaped bottle of nondescript, mass-​produced honey from the store again.

I always hit up this booth when at the Ferry Building’s Farmers Market. Be sure to taste any of the honeys that strike your interest. They really do have different tastes to them. My secret is to close your eyes and focus on the taste. They do have a stamp program if you buy from them often.
Their honeys do cost more, but OMG they are local and they taste so good! So I say your health is worth the extra $ 3. Here are my personal favorite flavors: Infused Lavender, Buzz erkly, Napa, and Wild West. There might be more but I can’t remember right now? Oh yeah, they do accept credit cards.

If you had told me this is what honey is supposed to taste like, perhaps I would have been a fan much earlier on.
I sought out local honey to help my allergies (eating honey produced from local pollen is supposed to build up your resistance). At first, I balked at the 11 $ per bottle price tag. But, upon further inspection, this is twice the amount of honey of the cheapest bottle, and the cheapest bottle already cost 5 $, so come to think of it, it’s not really that much more expensive.
Honey has alway tasted to me kind of sweet and kind of plastic-​y. Not really that complex, and a kind of poor sugar substitute. But man, this honey has such nuances, such flavor, such taste. It’s not only just sweet, but it tastes like… well, a field of flowers growing in Sonoma next to a vineyard. Rainbow hued blooms waving in the wind, face forward toward the sun. The taste alone makes me want to throw my shoes off and run around in said wildflower field.
Now I can’t ever imagine not having a bottle of this in my cabinet. I use it to sweeten yogurt, on toasts, to add complexity to stews, add sugar to vegetables I want a little bit more caramelizing. The uses are endless. And it lasts forever. But that could be perhaps I just keep stocking up on it, because, God help me the moment I reach for my Marshall’s honey and see that the bottle is empty with not another one in sight.
Seriously, this honey is the real deal.

Had the Wildflower Honey at Ad Hoc with the cheese course the night before and tasted multiple varieties at the Ferry Building Farmer’s Market. The Pumpkin and Almond were absolutely wonderful and the ladies at the booth were incredibly friendly. Good sugar, good service, happy me! I regretted not having luggage to take some home on the plane, but will definitely be ordering online soon.

We first tried their honey while dining at ad hoc. Then we went to Postrio the following night and had it AGAIN (by way of honeycomb). So when we saw the Marshall Farms Honey stand at the Ferry Building Farmer’s Market on Saturday afternoon, we knew it was fate. We were able to meet Mrs. Marshall and her cousin. We sampled many lovely honeys and decided to take some «Honey So Fresh» home. When we told them it was our honeymoon, we got to pick out 2 honey sticks on the house. I’m not kidding when I say this is the most amazing honey I’ve ever tasted!

Tried their honey at the Farmer’s Market by the Ferry Building. Many varieties of honey from the Northern California area. Each different and very tasty. I like that they have tiny jars of them so you can sample a few. Of course if you have a favorite they have normal sized jars.