OUR STORY
We're Recklesstown Honey Company.
Recklesstown Honey Company was founded in 2021 by brothers Brian and Matt Haluska with a clear mission: to create unique experiences through the art and science of beekeeping.
What began as a handful of hives has grown into multiple apiaries across Burlington, Ocean, and Monmouth Counties. Every jar we produce is raw, unfiltered, and harvested by hand. No additives, no shortcuts, nothing processed out of it.
We believe that buying local is about more than honey. It’s about knowing where your food comes from, supporting the ecosystem that produces it, and connecting with the people who made it.
— Brian and Matt Haluska
Recklesstown Honey Company | Chesterfield, New Jersey
The Apiaries
Where It All Begins
Our apiaries sit across the farmland of Burlington, Ocean, and Monmouth Counties — each location a little different, each one chosen for what it offers the bees. The hive boxes vary in setup from apiary to apiary, placed where the forage is strong and the environment is clean. No two locations are exactly alike, and that diversity is part of what makes our honey interesting.
The Harvest
From the Frame to the Jar
When the honey supers are ready we pull them from the hive and bring them to our extraction space. We uncap the wax cells and load the frames into our extractor, which spins the honey out.
For larger harvests the process runs across multiple days. The honey settles naturally in the tank before we jar everything by hand. No filtering, no additives — just honey, exactly as the bees made it.
The Mission
More Than Honey
One in three bites of food you eat exists because a bee pollinated it. We’ve seen colony losses firsthand, read the research, and watched guests at our farm react with genuine surprise when they learn how much pressure bee populations are under. Colony collapse, habitat loss, and pesticide exposure are real — and they’re happening here in New Jersey.
At Recklesstown we treat our hives using only organic and natural treatments. No synthetic chemicals, ever. Through our beekeeping experiences and education programs we work to connect our community to the world of bees and why protecting them matters to all of us.