This is a journal of my vegetable gardens. Skippy was my first dog and he thought the garden was his, even though I did all the work. Now Suzie and Charley follow in his footsteps. We're located near Boston (USDA zone 6A). I have a community plot, a backyard vegetable garden, fruit trees, berry bushes, chickens, and bees. I use sustainable organic methods and do my best to grow all of my family's vegetables myself.
Saturday, February 27, 2016
more honey
Yesterday I bottled 10 pints, 15 lbs, of honey for us to eat. It's spicy and sweet, medium amber. Really good. (more...)
I'm not sure what adds the spiciness to the honey. Maybe the Nepeta the we in all summer. Or maybe it's just the complexity of a mix of flower sources that I am noticing and calling spicy. The previous batch was all from a 2 or 3 week period in August and I'm sure 90% of their forage was the abundant pepper bush around the lake. That made a nice honey, but a simple floral mild sweet taste. It's fun to try different batches.
I don't think I have enough to sell yet. My son bakes with it, cakes cookies etc. we're lucky to have a baker in the house. We are mostly using honey in place of sugar when we can. I think the 40 lbs I've collected so far this year might be about our annual usage so I'm not looking to sell. I give away a small jar to friends now and then. Anyway, I think I'll wait to sell it. I was told that honey is selling at $12 a half pound for small producers selling it locally so it brings a good price. $24 a lb. I'd need to improve on my labels. Right now they dissolve when they get wet - just the printed Avery labels. But I put it on and in everything. Toast, tea, oatmeal, it in my son's homemade breakfast bars and I drizzle moe on, it's in the bread I make and I toast it and add more. Yummy. I do get a bit sticky .... But sweet.
5 comments:
WOW!
can I order a jar of honey?
wow, congratulations! looks amazing!!
Me too, wow! Kathy, your jars of honey are beautiful!
I'm not sure what adds the spiciness to the honey. Maybe the Nepeta the we in all summer. Or maybe it's just the complexity of a mix of flower sources that I am noticing and calling spicy. The previous batch was all from a 2 or 3 week period in August and I'm sure 90% of their forage was the abundant pepper bush around the lake. That made a nice honey, but a simple floral mild sweet taste. It's fun to try different batches.
I don't think I have enough to sell yet. My son bakes with it, cakes cookies etc. we're lucky to have a baker in the house. We are mostly using honey in place of sugar when we can. I think the 40 lbs I've collected so far this year might be about our annual usage so I'm not looking to sell. I give away a small jar to friends now and then. Anyway, I think I'll wait to sell it. I was told that honey is selling at $12 a half pound for small producers selling it locally so it brings a good price. $24 a lb. I'd need to improve on my labels. Right now they dissolve when they get wet - just the printed Avery labels. But I put it on and in everything. Toast, tea, oatmeal, it in my son's homemade breakfast bars and I drizzle moe on, it's in the bread I make and I toast it and add more. Yummy. I do get a bit sticky .... But sweet.
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