When I had bee hives it was a pleasure to remove the honey in late summer...There would be several different colors of honey. I just mixed it all together in the jar...truly wildflower honey....Everything from clover to dandelion, flowering bushes, fruit trees, my flowers and garden plants, etc. What I buy is mostly cotton and soybean honey ...but not the kind of soybeans we have over in this part of TN...Of course they will feed on any kind of wildflower or anything else that has pollen. My very favorite is Sourwood honey...Mostly in the mountain end of the state, but trees do grow in other places.... A surprise to me was finding out my Grandmother { Ma} on Mama's side and My Grandfather { Papa } on Daddy's side used to have bee hives, but not by the time I came along. Jeannie T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:19:05 -0500 "Neysa" <gramneysa@ct.metrocast.net> writes: > 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 ____________________________________________________________ Scholarships for Moms Grant Funding May Be Available to Those Who Qualify! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4d58bcd4ec7981ff6cm06duc

That is basically what he does, too. Although if the sweet pepper is in big enough sections, he will pull that first and process it and keep it separate. We particularly like that flavor. Usually not enough to bother with, though. Neysa ----- Original Message ----- From: askgranny@juno.com To: memory-lane@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 12:13 AM Subject: Re: [ML] ..bees. When I had bee hives it was a pleasure to remove the honey in late summer...There would be several different colors of honey. I just mixed it all together in the jar...truly wildflower honey....Everything from clover to dandelion, flowering bushes, fruit trees, my flowers and garden plants, etc. What I buy is mostly cotton and soybean honey ...but not the kind of soybeans we have over in this part of TN...Of course they will feed on any kind of wildflower or anything else that has pollen. My very favorite is Sourwood honey...Mostly in the mountain end of the state, but trees do grow in other places.... A surprise to me was finding out my Grandmother { Ma} on Mama's side and My Grandfather { Papa } on Daddy's side used to have bee hives, but not by the time I came along. Jeannie T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:19:05 -0500 "Neysa" <gramneysa@ct.metrocast.net> writes: > 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 ____________________________________________________________ Scholarships for Moms Grant Funding May Be Available to Those Who Qualify! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4d58bcd4ec7981ff6cm06duc 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