Does honey need kosher certification? 🍯

What should I know before buying honey? Does it  need to have a hashgacha? Can I buy honey from a   roadside farm, or locally grown honey? The truth  is, it's best to buy with a Hashgacha, because   honey could be heated, it could be pasteurized,  and then the equipment that are used for the honey   need to be kosher. There could be bee parts still  left behind in the honey. So therefore, if you buy   professional honey that has a Hashgacha on it,  then you know that these issues were taken care   of. If you do want to buy from a roadside stand,  what you should look out for is to make sure that   it's not flavored. The flavor of the plant that it  gets from is not considered flavored. You know, it   could be clover honey, et cetera, but it shouldn't  have any other additional flavors added to   it. It shouldn't be heated, it should be a raw,  unpasteurized honey, and you should make sure that   it's clean. It's possible to get clean honey even  without heating it, and even without filtering it.   Oftentimes, the beekeepers, they will centrifuge  their honey to get out the pieces, and they can   also put it through a mesh. You should ask  them, make sure that it's clean. Sometimes   the honey solidifies, it crystallizes, and then  you can't really tell what's going on inside.   Make sure that it's clean honey that you could  see that there's no insect parts inside of it.