Tupelo Honey...An Epicurean Treat!

White tupelo honey is sometimes called fine tupelo honey and is the most expensive honey because it is the most expensive to produce. Care must be taken by the beekeepers to clean the combs at the right time so that when the white tupelo gum tree blossoms, only the honey from these blossoms is collected. White tupelo honey is a prized, sweet and delicious light amber table honey with a greenish hue to it and it won't granulate or crystallize.

Black tupelo honey is made from the blossoms of the black tupelo gum tree, nyssa sylvatica, and it produces a darker honey that will granulate. Black tupelo is not prized for table honey and is often used as a bakery grade honey. Both white and black types of tupelo honey are produced by placing bees on platforms on the tupelo gum trees in the spring months. As the bees travel through the swamps they produce the honey from the gum trees' nectar.

If top quality white tupelo honey is mixed with any other type of honey such as black tupelo, wildflower or gallberry, it will granulate. Only fine white tupelo honey won't granulate or crystallize. The delightful taste of pure white tupelo honey can be savored on hot buttered toast or cold vanilla ice cream as well as on or in many other foods.

Tupelo honey was mentioned in the 1997 movie, Ulee's Gold, that stars Peter Fonda as a beekeeper who also battles bank robbers and looks after his abandoned grandchildren. Many aspects of tupelo honey production and beekeeping were taught to Fonda by the Lanier family of Wewahitchka, Florida. L.L. Lanier and Sons produces fine tupelo honey and some family members were extras in the movie. Tupelo Honey is also the name of Irish singer Van Morrison's song and album released in November of 1971. The song declares: "She's as sweet as tupelo honey. Just like honey from the bee."



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Peace Honey: Honey That Gives Back

Honey with a cause! Partnering with Heifer International to purchase and package this premium honey from their beekeeping projects in Honduras, $3 is donated to Heifer for each bottle sold. Softly sweet with floral notes, this honey compliments toast, tea and a variety of other foods equally.

Heifer International is a non-profit organization whose goal is to help end world hunger and poverty through self-reliance and sustainability. Heifer’s mission is to work with communities to end hunger and poverty and care for the earth. By giving families a hand-up, not just a hand-out, they empower them to turn lives of hunger and poverty into self-reliance and hope. More: http://www.beegoodtrading.com/servlet/the-Peace-Honey/Categories

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Honey to Jazz Up Your Recipes....and Yes, Including Chili....

Chili is the kind of dish that can be made simply, with meat, beans and a tomato mixture, or jazzed up with lots of seasonings, bell peppers and even honey and beer.

Check your household to see what kind they prefer. If you can’t get to the River City Charity Chili Cookoff Saturday, here are some recipes to make at home.

The beer and honey are in the Cowboy Beef and Black Bean Chili recipe in “The Healthy Beef Cookbook” published by the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and American Dietetic Association. Read more: http://www.decaturdaily.com/detail/53737.html

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Fewer beekeepers reporting colony collapse disorder die-offs in honeybees

Fewer beekeepers are reporting evidence of a mysterious ailment that had been decimating the U.S. honeybee population.

But losses due to colony collapse disorder remain high enough to keep beekeepers on edge, and longtime stresses on bees such as starvation and poor weather add to the burden.

A survey of beekeepers for the January issue of the Journal of Apicultural Research found that the percentage of operations reporting having lost colonies but without dead bees in the hives — a symptom of colony collapse disorder, or CCD — decreased to 26 percent last winter, compared to 38 percent the previous season and 36 percent the season before that. read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=9672642

Kathleen Hardison is the founder of BeeGoodTrading.com. BeeGood Trading offers specialty foods, gourmet coffees from around the world, and artisanal honeys such as Tupelo honey. BeeGoodTrading.com delivers same day shipping on roast to order specialty coffees, artisanal honey, organic teas, and other gourmet products. For more information, visit http://www.beegoodtrading.com/.

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Kathleen Hardison is the founder of BeeGoodTrading.com. BeeGood Trading offers specialty foods, gourmet coffees from around the world, and artisanal honeys such as Tupelo honey. BeeGoodTrading.com delivers same day shipping on roast to order specialty coffees, artisanal honey, organic teas, and other gourmet products. For more information, visit http://www.beegoodtrading.com/.

Most honey is made by bees. But sourwood is made by bees and angels.

Sourwood honey is so rare that a good crop sometimes only surfaces once every decade. Yet, its deep, spicy flavor makes it sought after by honey connoisseurs everywhere. The honey’s scarcity can be attributed to the very small amount of sourwood trees currently growing. The medium-height tree is indigenous to the United States and grows from northern Georgia to southern Pennsylvania. It is also known as sorrel and lily-of-the-valley. It typically blooms from June to August, providing a small window of time in which beekeepers can bring their colonies to collect nectar from the flowers.

The bloom period is quite short and beekeepers must time themselves accordingly in order to ensure that the bees do not harvest any nectar from other flowering plants. If the bees are brought to the area too soon, they will harvest from the sumac trees that bloom before the sourwood and if they are brought too late, they will miss the beginning of the flow of nectar.
Read more: Sourwood honey is so rare that a good crop sometimes only surfaces once every decade. Yet, its deep, spicy flavor makes it sought after by honey connoisseurs everywhere. The honey’s scarcity can be attributed to the very small amount of sourwood trees currently growing. The medium-height tree is indigenous to the United States and grows from southern Pennsylvania to northern Georgia. It is also known as sorrel and lily-of-the-valley. It typically blooms from June to August, providing a small window of time in which beekeepers can bring their colonies to collect nectar from the flowers.

The bloom period is quite short and beekeepers must time themselves accordingly in order to ensure that the bees do not harvest any nectar from other flowering plants. If the bees are brought to the area too soon, they will harvest from the sumac trees that bloom before the sourwood and if they are brought too late, they will miss the beginning of the flow of nectar. Sourwood honey is so rare that a good crop sometimes only surfaces once every decade. Yet, its deep, spicy flavor makes it sought after by honey connoisseurs everywhere. The honey’s scarcity can be attributed to the very small amount of sourwood trees currently growing. The medium-height tree is indigenous to the United States and grows from southern Pennsylvania to northern Georgia. It is also known as sorrel and lily-of-the-valley. It typically blooms from June to August, providing a small window of time in which beekeepers can bring their colonies to collect nectar from the flowers.

The bloom period is quite short and beekeepers must time themselves accordingly in order to ensure that the bees do not harvest any nectar from other flowering plants. If the bees are brought to the area too soon, they will harvest from the sumac trees that bloom before the sourwood and if they are brought too late, they will miss the beginning of the flow of nectar.
Read more: http://www.slowfoodusa.org/index.php/programs/ark_product_detail/sourwood_honey/

Kathleen Hardison is the founder of BeeGoodTrading.com. BeeGood Trading offers specialty foods, gourmet coffees from around the world, and artisanal honeys such as Tupelo honey. BeeGoodTrading.com delivers same day shipping on roast to order specialty coffees, artisanal honey, organic teas, and other gourmet products. For more information, visit http://www.beegoodtrading.com/.

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Honey Commonly Used in Recipes....

During the "old days" recipes called for honey to add sweetness. In fact, honey was once the only method of sweetening until sugar cane was introduced and so old recipes do feature it strongly. Indeed during war time, with sugar on ration, bee keepers came into their own and honey was once again used as a sweetener. Gail Anderson-Dargatz in her strikingly evocative novel on Canadian farming, “A recipe for bees” says “During the war honey had replaced sugar for canning, sweetening tea and coffee, and making cakes and cookies. Now that the war and rationing was ended, the market for honey had bottomed out. Augusta herself had dumped her honey-canned fruit once sugar was available. Everyone was hungry for sugar then, and sick and tired of honey.”
Read more: http://www.smallholder.co.uk/news/beesandhoney/4788308.Using_honey_for_your_smallholder_festive_fare/
Kathleen Hardison is the founder of BeeGoodTrading.com. BeeGood Trading offers specialty foods, gourmet coffees from around the world, and artisanal honeys such as Tupelo honey. BeeGoodTrading.com delivers same day shipping on roast to order specialty coffees, artisanal honey, organic teas, and other gourmet products. For more information, visit http://www.beegoodtrading.com/.

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