Anonymous
Post 01/16/2022 02:19     Subject: What's your favorite honey?
I like wildflower or orange blossom. I live in VA and always buy Gunter’s.
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2022 02:09     Subject: Re:What's your favorite honey?
Anonymous wrote:I prefer Orange Blossom honey. Sorry, I don’t see the brand online, but I’ve purchased it at the Friendship Heights Whole Foods.


+1 Orange blossom is my favorite.
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2022 01:55     Subject: Re:What's your favorite honey?
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?
Anonymous
Post 01/15/2022 08:21     Subject: Re:What's your favorite honey?
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...
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2022 09:40     Subject: What's your favorite honey?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Anything locally made.


+1
Plus, your kid will be exposed to local pollen and therefore might not have such bad pollen allergies in spring


I’d love something locally made. I hadn’t heard the potential allergy protection, that’s interesting.


NP and I love this theory but the evidence is scant at best. But I mean it can’t hurt you, just don’t expect too much.
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2022 09:14     Subject: What's your favorite honey?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Anything locally made.


+1
Plus, your kid will be exposed to local pollen and therefore might not have such bad pollen allergies in spring


I’d love something locally made. I hadn’t heard the potential allergy protection, that’s interesting.
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2022 08:25     Subject: What's your favorite honey?
Anonymous wrote:Anything locally made.


+1
Plus, your kid will be exposed to local pollen and therefore might not have such bad pollen allergies in spring
Anonymous
Post 01/13/2022 22:32     Subject: What's your favorite honey?
I love Really Raw Honey, which is available widely.
Anonymous
Post 01/13/2022 20:55     Subject: Re:What's your favorite honey?
I prefer Orange Blossom honey. Sorry, I don’t see the brand online, but I’ve purchased it at the Friendship Heights Whole Foods.
Anonymous
Post 01/13/2022 20:47     Subject: What's your favorite honey?
Anonymous wrote:Thank you, PPs. Any recommendations for farms/apiaries that ship or sell through local Whole Foods etc would be very much appreciated.


Just go to Whole Foods and ask them if they can point you to local honey.
Anonymous
Post 01/13/2022 20:24     Subject: What's your favorite honey?
Thank you, PPs. Any recommendations for farms/apiaries that ship or sell through local Whole Foods etc would be very much appreciated.
Anonymous
Post 01/13/2022 18:04     Subject: What's your favorite honey?
Anonymous wrote:Looking for something easy on a kid's palate that isn't overly sweet... (I know, I know, honey is sweet, but those who know honey will understand what I mean--I hope!)

There is such a huge variety of honey flavors and I'd like to explore beyond the typical supermarket bear-shaped jar.

TIA!
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Supermarket honey isn't that great, We get ours local in DTSS. Koiner's farm. Sometimes we order honey from South Mountain Creamery.
Anonymous
Post 01/13/2022 18:03     Subject: What's your favorite honey?
We are lucky enough to live (near lancaster county) in a place where people have their own hives and farmers market has local honey. I have a jar that's really mild and lightly flower scented but I think you need to talk to farmers and do tastings.
Anonymous
Post 01/13/2022 18:02     Subject: What's your favorite honey?
Anything locally made.
Anonymous
Post 01/13/2022 18:00     Subject: What's your favorite honey?
Looking for something easy on a kid's palate that isn't overly sweet... (I know, I know, honey is sweet, but those who know honey will understand what I mean--I hope!)

There is such a huge variety of honey flavors and I'd like to explore beyond the typical supermarket bear-shaped jar.

TIA!