When this nice young man gave me permission to take pictures for my blog, neither one of us knew it would be months before I finally got round to using them. |
Now, because I'd read so many things about local/raw honey, like how you should be able to tell the difference, and how it tastes so amazing, that I was bound to be a bit let down. And I was, kinda. I didn't leap with happiness at how much better the very local version (Round Rock is about 18 miles from my house on the freeway, and even closer as the crow flies) of honey was than the stuff I can buy at the store that might come from 200 miles away (I was buying Texas honey already). But, I thought, at least it might protect Chad from allergies.
I don't remember how much honey this was; three pounds, maybe? |
However! We liked the Round Rock Honey enough to buy it again, and I do like the idea of buying local. The more small businesses that are operating, the better; every town would be exactly the same if not for the local businesses. And finally, I'm wanting to have a go at replacing the white sugar in our diet with honey, in the hopes that the non-processed sugar will be marginally better for us. So for all those reasons, I'm planning to head to the farmer's market tomorrow for another industrial-sized keg of honey.
Do you eat honey? Do you prefer the local varieties, or is that less important to you?
4 comments:
I do enjoy honey even though I don't buy it often. I'm definitely in the buy-local camp and good local honeys are hard to find here.
Bummer! I neglected to ask what kind of flower the bees are around, so I don't know what flavour of honey this is. I'd love to try different ones!
Sadly our seven month of floods have drowned so many bees.
That is sad. Your floods that the drought over so much of North America have me worried-- we have all the right natural resources, but Mother Nature isn't spreading them around as well as I wish she would.
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