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Thanks for listening and thanks for supporting our friends and neighbors in the food-service industry!

I just found out that September is National Honey Month! 

As a huge honey fan and bee booster, I am thrilled to have a chance to pollinate business for my many apiary associates, including such rich and sweet friends as Boston Honey Company (who recently opened a new facility and store in Holliston), Red Bee in CT, Johnston Honey from MN (which I just finished and need to get more of!), Nakakono from Africa, and Pacific Resources and Wedderspoon from New Zealand! I am also happy to add to the list of bee-utiful bee-tailers Maggie’s Farm in Greenfield, MA (who I found through the MA Department of Agriculture).

Started by a husband and wife team that includes a former educator who left teaching to, as he puts it, “live my agricultural dream,” Maggie’s hives hardy Russian bees to make a light honey that is great in tea as well as a rarer dark honey that is good with apples for Rosh Hashahnah, as part of a homemade barbecue sauce, or simply on its own! 

As Maggie’s never mixes their honeys, each batch is different, like a fine varietal of wine, making repeated (even regular) orders easy to justify. They also make beeswax candles, soaps, and lotions, and even sell their own beekeeping supplies for those who might be inspired to leave other pursuits to get jive with a hive.

Honey is great at any time of year, but as it is National Honey Month, let us all give a little extra wiggle-waggle for our friends – both local and international – who bring us this environmentally-supportive treat!

bostonhoneycompany.com

redbee.com

johnstonhoney.com

nakakono.com

nakakono.com

wedderspoon.compri-nz.com

maggiesfarmandapiary.com