December 3, 2025 by KAAL-TV The Ardent Apiary of Lake Mills, IA has been producing small batches of local honey since 2020. “We started when we bought this old, abandoned acreage,” said owner Adam Stene, who with his wife Rachel raises three colonies of bees, bottling around 600 lbs of honey annually. “Somewhere around that number,” Adam Stene said. “We measure it by the five-gallon bucket.” The Stenes are also raising lavender plants, selling the fresh cut flowers at farm
