What's your favorite honey?

[Anonymous]

Try whipped honey. It's amazing!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We keep hives on our farm. If you want local honey, I would google your county's beekeeper association and then see if they have a list of beekeepers who sell honey. This time of year it may be hard to find any - supers are pulled around the first week of July after the spring nectar flow. Ours is bottled and sold at our farmers market booth and usually sold out by the end of the year in October - minus the few bottles I keep to give as gifts during the holidays. Honey is like wine - each year it's different depending on where the bees are foraging. Different nectar sources give it different flavors and, like wine and art, everyone has different preferences. I absolutely hate buckwheat honey because it leaves a very astringent taste on my palate, but others love it because of its rich dark color.

The evidence and research of local pollen helping allergies just isn't there - anecdotal at best. But that doesn't stop the people from believing it to be real, some are probably experiencing psychosomatic relief - I've heard every story imaginable when people are buying it. We have one guy who shows up with a big Lowes bucket wanting it filled with honey. We've had people ask if they could pay us to come get stung by bees. I think they are nuts but different strokes and all that...

What do they want to get stung for?

Quoted Poster/farmer with bees: They think it helps with allergies (there is no scientific research to validate this, BTW). I think they are nuts - I've been stung enough times while checking hives to know I don't want to do it willingly by p*ssing off a million bees.

I love creamed/whipped honey - it's made when you allow honey to sit and the sugars crystallize, then it's whipped to a spread-like texture. I put cinnamon in ours and it is great on french toast/bread.