honey, honey?

After discovering this adorable honey store from another blog, Tanner and I finally made the short drive off the peninsula to The Honey Exchange. It's an ity bity store in a converted house, painted yellow, that carries beekeeping supplies, jewelry, assorted honey merchandise, meads, and of course, honey. The woman showed us part of their enclosed hive that's kept in the store and we marveled at the little bees. She told about the process and some of the people in the surrounding area who keep bees and sell their honey to The Honey Exchange. We learned that an average honey season will yield about 40 to 60 pounds of honey! I definitely think beekeeping is in our futures (distant futures but still there). Tanner loves honey and I think it would be fun and certainly challenging to come up with different uses for all the honey we might have.

In the other room Tanner and I taste tested a variety of honeys and came to an agreement on our favorite. We will absolutely be going back to pick up some honey once we've gone through ours (unfortunately we have two good sized containers right now. Hmm, I'll have to start thinking of ways to go through it). We also picked out a bottle of mead and we're both pretty excited to try it out!