🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝

[farmerjan]

3-D printers are way beyond my pay grade.... NEAT.... I wouldn't know where or how to begin...

If I didn't mention it... thought I did... ANYWAY..... I MUCH PREFER the buckwheat honey to plain ....

BUT.... I also like the "grade B and even the grade C" or what used to be called cooking grade years ago... of maple syrup... It is very much darker and stronger flavored... most people like the very light. It has to do when the sap is harvested... early is lighter, later is darker... changes in microbes in the sap...Now it is called very dark and robust... all syrup is Grade A now... with 4 "colors", so confusing for us "old timers"... but I get it to make it a uniform grading system across US AND Canada....... not like the old way of Grade A with 3 "colors/flavor intensities" then "grade B" was the dark late season kind...

SO, PLEASE put me on the buckwheat honey LIST..... like @Baymule .... pints and qts are GOOD.... sealed, they keep....

I am not a honey eater as much as a maple syrup eater... but got to using the honey more in my oatmeal.... I don't even bother with milk... more of a "sweetened oatmeal mush"..... and always used maple syrup... and in my cream of wheat.... now it is a "toss up"....

So you not liking the Buckwheat flavor is like me not liking the Grade A amber maple syrup... it is too "delicate" for me ..... the regular honey is too "delicate" for me also...

Glad not everyone likes the same things....

 

[fuzzi]

I think @drstratton might be able to get rid of all that buckwheat honey...

 

[farmerjan]

I think @drstratton might be able to get rid of all that buckwheat honey...

Yeah, we might all have to get in line and divvy it up.....

See @drstratton ... there is a MARKET for that flavor... maybe you ought to consider that and it would help pay for bee equipment etc and so forth... not just the shipping, but making a little money off it to go against expenses in the future???

I got some orange blossom honey one time when I was in Fl.... It was DIVINE..... there is a bee keeper up here that actually gets some from a fellow bee keeper in FL so that he can offer it for sale alongside his local honey... haven't bought any.... but now I am getting a "yen" for some of that...
See what a "bad influence" you are.... making us all "honey crazy"...

 

[drstratton]

3-D printers are way beyond my pay grade.... NEAT.... I wouldn't know where or how to begin...

If I didn't mention it... thought I did... ANYWAY..... I MUCH PREFER the buckwheat honey to plain ....

BUT.... I also like the "grade B and even the grade C" or what used to be called cooking grade years ago... of maple syrup... It is very much darker and stronger flavored... most people like the very light. It has to do when the sap is harvested... early is lighter, later is darker... changes in microbes in the sap...Now it is called very dark and robust... all syrup is Grade A now... with 4 "colors", so confusing for us "old timers"... but I get it to make it a uniform grading system across US AND Canada....... not like the old way of Grade A with 3 "colors/flavor intensities" then "grade B" was the dark late season kind...

SO, PLEASE put me on the buckwheat honey LIST..... like @Baymule .... pints and qts are GOOD.... sealed, they keep....

I am not a honey eater as much as a maple syrup eater... but got to using the honey more in my oatmeal.... I don't even bother with milk... more of a "sweetened oatmeal mush"..... and always used maple syrup... and in my cream of wheat.... now it is a "toss up"....

So you not liking the Buckwheat flavor is like me not liking the Grade A amber maple syrup... it is too "delicate" for me ..... the regular honey is too "delicate" for me also...

Glad not everyone likes the same things....

So glad you're enjoying it. My husband is not picky about food at all, whereas I get easily overpowered by the flavor of certain things...I can't eat vinegar or bell peppers, strong onions and many other things, but I keep trying them occasionally to see if my tastes have changed. So, I'm surprised that he doesn't care for the buckwheat when so many others enjoy it. I'm not surprised that I don't...lol

I have 16oz bottles on the way and I will be picking up flat rate boxes at usps on Tuesday. I love being able to share it with all of you!

 

[drstratton]

3-D printers are way beyond my pay grade.... NEAT.... I wouldn't know where or how to begin...

If it wasn't for my son it would be beyond mine too... it would definitely be a lot more challenging, not that it isn't already that...lol

 

[drstratton]

I think @drstratton might be able to get rid of all that buckwheat honey...

I think you're right!

Yeah, we might all have to get in line and divvy it up.....

See @drstratton ... there is a MARKET for that flavor... maybe you ought to consider that and it would help pay for bee equipment etc and so forth... not just the shipping, but making a little money off it to go against expenses in the future???

I got some orange blossom honey one time when I was in Fl.... It was DIVINE..... there is a bee keeper up here that actually gets some from a fellow bee keeper in FL so that he can offer it for sale alongside his local honey... haven't bought any.... but now I am getting a "yen" for some of that...
See what a "bad influence" you are.... making us all "honey crazy"...

Then it would become a job, I much prefer sharing it with all of you! Keeps it fun!

I'm glad you've all joined me, I'm much more honey crazy than I was. I think it's because I appreciate it so much more now. I've also learned that it's so much better for you than simple sugars. It's the perfect sweetener! So eat up!
I like being a bad influence!