What's your favorite Honey?

[jerrybob]

Alfalfa honey is excellent..........most honey is pretty darn good!:bumblebee::bumblebee::bumblebee::bumblebee:

 

[DKCDKC]

We have hives on our property. A hobbyist maintains them. All the honey is good, but the really light honey after all my thousands of tulip poplars come in bloom is fantastic. Never tasted any honey so good.

 

[Larro Darro]

I love the Tupelo honey from Wewahitchka Florida. My cousin married into the first family of Tupelo honey men, the Lanier's. They have been taking their hives down the Chipola and Apalachicola Rivers when the Tupelo are blooming for 115 years. Here is a link to their site L.L. Lanier and Son's Tupelo Honey - Ulee's Gold - Wewahitchka, Florida Since 1898.

But because of the price, I eat more clover honey than anything else. Since the movie Ulee's Gold came out, Ben and Glynnis have been selling so much honey it is hard to get any of it.

Larro

 

[Leejohn]

One ? How do you know what a bee feeds on. I see them on just about everything.

 

[jerrybob]

One ? How do you know what a bee feeds on. I see them on just about everything.

They put up little signs directing the bees where to go.....simple!

 

[cqaigy2]

Sourwood honey is my favorite then fireweed. And the comb honey is the best. I can only guess because hasn't been exposed to air.

 

[troutsqueezer]

One ? How do you know what a bee feeds on. I see them on just about everything.

Bees will focus on one variety of plant at a time. When you pull honey frames from the supers (box where bees store excess honey), you will notice that there are color variations from frame to frame or box to box. One side of a frame can be dark honey while the other side is light colored with a different taste. There are always scout bees searching different flowers to ascertain which plants have a nectar flow going on so they can report back to the hive.

 

[forgeblast]

I had my hives destroyed by a bear last spring. This spring, with the weird weather we were having I figured I would not catch a swarm again. My neighbor (couple miles away) lost 19 of 20 hives.
I decided to set up my bee house anyway. Its on the top of the field stone garden shed I built. I set up my entrance and my warre hive bodies and then put lemongrass oil and a few pieces of old comb in there. I am happy to say I have bees again, not sure when they moved in but they were working away. I am hoping next sept to harvest 20-50 pounds off of them.

 

[oosik]

By far - fireweed honey. Its expensive too - hard to get them little buggers to bypass all the clover.

 

[tcreeley]

As a kid we used to get cans of clover honey from the A&P. Once we grabbed a can of buckwheat honey...that was not so good! It lasted awhile!