Twenty years ago, Bill Lewis walked away from a career as an aerospace engineer to become a beekeeper. Bill's first brush with bees was when he was 14 years old, working on a merit badge for the Boy Scouts in Wisconsin.

Today, Bill manages nearly 400 bee colonies in the Angeles National Forest, a rural oasis high above the city. There, the bees produce honey from native Black Button sage and buckwheat. During the almond bloom in February, Bill moves his bees to almond orchards to help with almond pollination and can harvest limited amounts of almond honey. In April, Bill moves his bees to the orange tree orchards in California's citrus belt and harvests large quantities of Orange Blossom honey.

Bill's honey is never heated or filtered. It's full of live enzymes and tiny grains of pollen that the bees naturally put in the honey.

Honey varieties take on a different color and flavor depending on which flowers the bees are attracted to. Commercial producers mix all their honeys together, so the commercial honeys taste the same because the distinctive flavors of each variety are lost in the mix. Bill's honeys are always single varieties, so the unique character of each honey is featured.

Bill harvests only honey produced when the bees have plenty of flowers available to them. As a result, Bill's honey always has outstanding flavor and his bees are very healthy.