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Considerations when buying honey?
Well this may be a silly question, but is there anything I need to consider when buying honey? I mean, in order to buy responsibly-made honey? I'm starting to eat more honey lately, and I really don't know anything about the honey industry.
Re: Considerations when buying honey?
I want to learn more about honey myself.
From what I understand, there is no such thing as organic honey (as bees can travel wherev they wish & return w/ pesticides & whatnot).
I try to just buy locally harvested honey (is harvested the right word?).
Ok, I'll just try to stick with more local, smaller producers. I doubt they say if they feed the bees on it but I could ask.
Yep! It has helped me immensely. I used to have terrible seasonal allergies and they have all but disappeared since I started eating raw local honey.
I buy it at my farmer's market. They don't supplement with anything. It's raw, it's delicious.
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Ooh having my own beehive would be awesome!! I LOVE fresh honeycomb. I'm not sure how my neighbors would feel about this or if its even allowed!
I know there are great local producers at the markets but I don't have access to a market until spring. I shop at PCC and a local produce and meat market (LOVE this place, the produce/sundries store and the meat market share a building but are separate companies, and the meat place sells humane, sustainable local meat) and I'm sure at least PCC has local honey.
I just haven't been a honey person much, so haven't really looked.
I get my honey from our Farmer's Market, which is open year-round. It's raw wildflower honey. I've spoken to the farmer about it, and he has several fields of wildflowers with hives sprinkled through them. He doesn't supplement the bees with sugar or anything. It has helped A LOT with my seasonal allergies. It's the continous low-grade exposure idea. Your body digests the pollen and over time becomes less sensitive to it.
If you can't get honey from your market until spring, I would go for local, raw honey. It's my understanding that raw honey is less processed, it's just strained to remove the solids pretty much. My bee guy sells huge jars with the comb still in them! I don't go through that much. I buy the small honey bear (12 ounces I think?) every 6 weeks or so.
If you can make it up to West Seattle on a Sunday between 10 am and 2 pm, you can buy some great honey! Our farmers' market is year-round!
Unfortunately, that's a terrible time for me! That's dog park time!!
I go to West Seattle for my dogs' poultry, (well, SODO, but close enough to the WS Bridge that I wish I could combine runs, but the distributor is only open regular work hourse). I could go to Ballard too, but its so far, and also on dog park day! That may seem silly, but I have a lot of dog, and they need their weekly outing.
Raw honey is unheated, unpasteurized and unprocessed, so for many, its preferable not just for environmental reasons, but for health as well, because it will have live enzymes and not be altered by pasteurization.
I love raw honey, its thicker. When I was veg I used to eat it a lot with pb on rice cakes. I hate rice cakes, except with pb and raw honey!