Beekeeping 101
There is something serenely pleasant about hearing the hum of your bees working the raspberry patch.
Edible Guide: A Spoonful of Honey
Honey producers across the Island
On toast, in tea, as a drizzling finish or a primary ingredient—honey adds a natural sweetness to food and drink alike. It’s a hard-earned product of our friends the bees, the only insect that makes food for humans. These fuzzy little flyers zip around at up to 30 kilometers per hour, flapping their wings over 200 times per second. During one collection trip alone, a bee will visit 50–100 flowers—and it takes about two million flower visits to make just a pound of honey. But for the bee, a pound of honey is a lot; just an ounce of the sweet gold would fuel one bee on a trip around the entire world.
Vancouver Island has many honey producers who are working with and caring for the bees to create honey we can all enjoy, no matter our preference, from flavoured varieties to classic tastes.
Babe’s Honey Farm babes-honey-farm.com
Big D’s Bees bigdsbees.com
Country Bee Honey countrybeehoney.ca
Flying Dutchman flyingdutchman-bees.com
Fredrich’s Honey fredrichshoney.com
Island Bees islandbees.ca
Nielsen’s Honey facebook.com/nielsenshoney
The MacInnis Honey Co. facebook.com/themacinnishoneyco
Queen Bee Farms & Apiary qbfarms.ca
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Honey Lime Prawns
Spring is spot prawn season on Vancouver Island. Honey pairs well with spot prawns and makes a nice sweet and sticky marinade with lime juice, garlic and cilantro.