Just thirty minutes south of us on route 7 in the little town of Ferrisburg, Vt, is a relatively unknown treasure known as the Honey Gardens (www.honeygardens.com).
To these people, making raw honey and honey related products is not just a business, it is a way of life.They have worked tirelessly to apply organic methods to bee keeping, and the results are the best tasting raw honey we have ever tasted, and a number of wonderful honey related products. Look around their website, it is full of great honey information. Their products are sold in many organic food stores so you may have encountered them. If not, you can order them from the website. We highly recommend the propolis salve and spray. The salve makes the best lip balm ever, and the spray can be used for many purposes, including antiseptic. We also use all the other products, including the actual raw honey. If you order honey, I advise not ordering anything less than a five pound jar. The honey seems to get harder when it crystallizes in the smaller jars and is just not as wonderful as it is in the five pounder or the larger sizes. If you are seeking a source of raw honey, you can't do better than the Honey Gardens. The prices are not cheap, but the quality is the best, and their dedication to beekeeping is unequalled in my experience. Del ----- Original Message ----- From: ransley To: silver-list@eskimo.com Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 12:05 PM Subject: RE: CS>Raw Honey???? have a heart! Faith , I see your point, but what else are we to call it in light of the chicanery in the honey world? I know for a stone cold fact that there is raw honey sold at our local HFS that the beekeeper is well known to give his bees sugar water. I also know he heats his honey to 90F to process it. People do not understand the need to know about that, let alone about the need to not use pasteurized honey. I buy 12 pints of truly raw, wildwoods, totally cold processed honey and comb from a little old lady every year. I can't eat that much in a year, not even close, so I'm stockpiling it for the inevitable day that she quits raising bees. I think we do need distinction in our description of honey. Daddybob No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.7.7/816 - Release Date: 5/23/2007 3:59 PM
