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EARLY SUMMER HARVEST!!!

Very VERY exciting times… our first harvest is ready!!! About a month ago we extracted 2 shallow supers off of 2 hives established last year, netting about 60-70lbs. This harvest is the first bloom of the 2012 season, our bees forage on a variety of plants and this early summer harvest is full-bodied and rich – some of the best honey I’ve had in a while if I do say so myself. Its a true Southern Ontario wildflower honey. Its also packaged quite beautifully! Bottled in screen-printed reusable Mason jars, I have to thank my friends at Flash Reproductions for the screen printing and Somerset Graphics for the tag printing – love it when a plan comes together!

Honey is available now through the beekeeper (me) for $10 per 500 g jar. We have 60 jars and this will be available until its sold out. There will also be a late summer harvest which will be available in September 2012.

A couple of notes about our honey;
- Our honey is as “straight from the hive” as it gets. We extract the frames, filter, then bottle it.
- All real honey will crystallize over time, if that happens just place the jar in warm water (without the lid) until it softens up – don’t boil or put it in the microwave.
- Our honey is more expensive than others, why? For starters its not mass produced. We’re a small batch/small operation and not only are we focussed on the quality of the product we also believe in quality packaging.

Posted from Ontario, Canada.

HARVEST

Yep, that’s right… It’s harvest time, we pulled two (very heavy) shallow supers over the weekend. Every frame was full and capped – beautiful! Was planning on extracting later this week but the excitement got a hold of me and we spun 20 frames last night. We have to finish up filtering out the wax, finalize the jar design, get the jars printed, etc… Should be bottling next week? We’ll let you know here (and on Twitter) first when the crop is ready! Oh, I forgot to mention it tastes AMAZING!!!