Ready for winter

November was busy for me. The first weekend was occupied with the Women, Food, and Agriculture Network conference. The second weekend was occupied with the Iowa Honey Producers Association annual meeting. Upon return from the annual meeting, I spent the very next day winterizing the hives. I took the first step of assembling a wind break a…

Tale of two honeys

I finally had the chance to photograph an example of different honey harvests. The bottles in the photo came from the same season. The dark honey is urban, the light honey is suburban. I’ve seen similar examples of prairie honey and timber honey (same land, same season.). We also had a fun honey sampling at…