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Tasting Honey

On December 12, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Uncategorized

I’ve been having the most remarkable conversations with very good honey tasters. I’ve been lucky with finding honey tasters lately.

It started with Marina Marchese, who came to visit our Medina Beekeepers last week. She’s one of the best known honey tasters…or sommelier as true tasters like to be called. Marina wrote a book [...]

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Kentucky Woman, and Winter

On November 21, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Bee Culture Magazine, Honey Bee Management, Uncategorized, Wintering

November…Early this month in Florida it was 80 degrees, sunny and honey bees were gathering pollen in the wild parts, and honey in the orange groves. Ohio’s not Florida, but this year it’s not too bad … in fact it’s been uncommonly warm most days…warmer than the last few years as I recall…but then, we [...]

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With fields like this, goldenrod honey is a given…especially when they are producing nectar like mad.

On Golden Fields

On September 26, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In A.I. Root Company, Bee Culture Magazine, Honey, Mother Earth News

Have you noticed the goldenrod bloom this season? With the exception of the extremely dry areas of the south, there seems to be much, much more of this wonderful, productive, attractive bloom than usual.

Maybe it’s just me…and that could be…but I tend to travel quite a bit this time of year to beekeeper meetings [...]

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