This is a concern that comes up often. Honeybees produce honey to survive the winter months. What most people don’t realize is that honeybees produce far more honey than they actually consume. Beekeepers and bees have a symbiotic relationship. Beekeepers take care of their bees, provide them with a home, and ensure that they have enough honey to last the winter. If they don’t, the bees will be unable to survive the winter months and the beekeeper will no longer have any honey. Killing their bees is not the beekeeper’s goal. Beekeepers do everything in their power to make sure their bees are healthy and well taken care of. This ensures the bees make quality honey.  Bees are free to forage wild flowers and plants miles away from the hive. They could easily fly away and make a home elsewhere yet they continue to return to the beekeeper’s boxes, where they are safe, dry, and taken care of. The health of the bees is especially paramount for companies like Bee Flower and Sun Honey, that provide pure raw honey that’s unadulterated and with zero additives. Additionally, as creating honey is a part of the natural process of bees, you could say that raw honey is the most environmentally friendly sweetener available as nothing needs to be chopped down and there is no processing required.