Color and taste of honey depends on the flowers the bees are working at the time. We have a plant called sweet pepper; the honey is almost totally clear, and has a tiny "peppery" taste to it. Just because it is honey does not mean it will have a taste you like...some buckwheat honey is awful. We call ours wild flower, as our bees range to gardens in our neighborhood. He takes the honey supers (where they store our honey) off before the buckwheat and goldenrod is out. That way he avoids that strong honey; the bees don't care...they will eat any kind of honey and by doing the supers at that time, they have time to make and store enough honey for the hive for the winter. Neysa ----- Original Message ----- From: askgranny@juno.com To: memory-lane@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2011 12:41 AM Subject: Re: [ML] FW: yesterday morning...bees. I bought several dozen quarts of honey the last time, and specified that years fresh honey. Well, the honey we are using now looks like molasses it's so dark! It's partly sugared, so we have to heat it a little to pour it into our special honey jar. Still tastes great, so....I know where HE gets this honey, so will go straight to the producer next time...if we live long enough to use up what honey we have. Was spooked when reading about so many bees dying or disappearing so decided to stock up. Jeannie T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 13:22:39 -0700 ROBERT E PATY <dback1935@msn.com> writes: One of his clients was a beekeeper who would give the attorney about a dozen boxes of pints of honey from his hives. . I still have seven unopened bottles .Sure is a good thing honey doesn't spoil. > > Robert E Paty, Scottsdale, AZ aka Mad Hatter > ____________________________________________________________ Get Free Email with Video Mail & Video Chat! http://www.juno.com/freeemail?refcd=JUTAGOUT1FREM0210 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message