A Tasting Tour of U.S. Honey Varieties
There are many choices when it comes to sweeteners. However, no other
sweetener has as many varieties as honey. Honey is pure, all natural, and was first
sweetener known to man. Honey is made when a bee changes the composition of nectar
by adding moisture and enzymes. The product is then stored in bee combs and covered
with bees wax.
Honey comes in many shapes, colors, and has a variety of flavors. Different types
of honey come from different types of flowers. If there is an area with a large
amount of one type of flower, a bee will produce honey with a flavor and color of the
plant. In areas with various types of flowers, bees will produce natural blends of honey.
Flavors of honey stretch from bland tastes to sweet pleasant ones. Honey colors can range
from a light golden color to dark brown depending on the flower. Darker honey means it
is a different taste, not that it is low quality.
Different forms of honey are produced and sold in stores. Comb honey is a filled
beeswax comb and is stored directly by the bees. Liquid honey is produced by clipping
the wax off of the comb and extracting the honey from the cells. Creamy granulated
honey is made by mixing granulated honey with liquid honey. Chunk honey is comb
honey in a jar, covered with liquid honey.
There are many common types of honey in the United States. Alfalfa honey is a
light colored honey that comes from purple blossoms and has a mild taste. Honey from
a dark avocado blossom is avocado honey. Blueberry honey is taken from the blueberry
bush which has tiny flowers. Blueberry is sweet and has somewhat of a tart taste.
Fireweed is a honey light in color. This comes from a perennial herb found in Northern
and Pacific states. Honey with a distinctive taste, golden color, and green cast is tupelo
honey. Tupelo honey has a high fructose content, so it takes longer to granulate than
other honeys. Wildflower honey is honey that is undefined at could have come from
several different flowers. Sourwood honey comes from the sourwood tree which can
grow up to 60 feet tall. Sourwood trees mostly grow and the mountains and can be found
in Northeast Georgia. This honey has a sour taste. Maple honey is very sweet and tastes
guards to take care of the beehive. These bees are usually very old and with a lot of
Their range starts from the western slope of the Cascade Range in north-central Oregon all the way to the Sierra San Pedro Martir in Baja California. Most of its distribution is centered from the Klamath and Siskiyou mountains and on western slopes of the Cascade Range and Sierra Nevada. Smaller patches also occur on the coast of southern Oregon and California, transverse ranges of southern California, and east of the Cascade and Sierra Nevada crests. Nearly 80% of its distribution is in California. (Habeck)
Reinke, Beth Bence. "How Sweet It Is: Sorting Out Sweeteners." CBN. The Christian Broadcasting Network, 2014. Web. 29 Apr. 2014.
Goldenrods are perennial herbs with wand like stems and stalk-less leaves. They usually grow to a height of 1.2 m (4 ft), but environmental conditions and species variations give them a range of 30 cm to 2 m (1 to 7 ft). Their yellow flowers are in graceful clusters. The genus goldenrods contain about 100 species, most of which are North American in origin. The Canada goldenrod, one of the commonest species, is of average height and has large panicles of small yellow flowers. The smaller sweet goldenrod has anise-scented leaves used to make herb tea. The wreath goldenrod, a low-growing species, is found in shady places. The November goldenrod is the tallest and bears large hairy panicles of flowers. Only one goldenrod species, the European goldenrod, is native to Europe. Several species of goldenrod that have white ray flowers are commonly called silverrod.
In Virginia 2009, was a young first grade girl who just moved from Georgia. One of the first sights she saw were the fragile honeysuckles. The first day at her new school was surprisingly, amazing. She made new friends and one of them even invited her to the boy scout trail where everyone had adventures. The honeysuckles were there again and this girl would always remember that moment of being truly happy after moving. I have always loved the environment them so many years ago. The aroma a honeysuckle emits is heavenly, making it take me back to those happy and confusing memories. My friend took me to the boy scout trail,during recess would go to the boy scout trail and we would see the cattails and the stream with it’s calm manner. Not only
The best action the public can take to improve honey bee survival is not to use pesticides indiscriminately. In particular, the public should avoid applying pesticides during mid-day hours, when honey bees are most likely to be out foraging for nectar and pollen on flowering plants. In addition, the public can plant pollinator-friendly plants—plants that are good sources of nectar and pollen such as red clover, foxglove, bee balm, joe-pye weed, and other native plants.
All around the world honeybees are vanishing at an alarming rate, according to the documentary Vanishing of the Honeybees. This film features two commercial bee keepers and their fight to preserve their bee numbers. David Hackenburg was the first commercial bee keeper to go public the bee population was decreasing. Approximately two billions bees have vanished and nobody knows the reason why. Honeybees are used all across America to help pollinate monoculture crops like broccoli, watermelon, cherries, and other produce. Without the honeybees the price for fresh and local produce would be too much money. According, to this film commercial bee keeper’s help fifteen billion dollars of food get pollinated by commercial
St. John's Wort scientifically known as Hypericum Perforatum, an herbal remedy generally used to treat depression, is making a rise throughout Europe and the United States. St. John's Wort is a perennial plant that produces abundant yellow flowers and grows naturally throughout much of the world, including specifically in northern California, southern Oregon, and Colorado. It usually flowers on “sunlight hills and forest edges” during the summer, between June and August. It was named after St. John the Baptist and is often harvested and in full bloom around St. John's Day, June 24.
The bees chew the wax until it reaches the required texture to construct the cells. They knead the wax using their bodies until it reaches a viscous liquid. The cells began as circular shapes when first constructed, which mirrors the shape of the bee’s body. These circular cells can later morph into hexagonal shapes from surface tension alone. However, the bees use their heads in order to tilt the axes of the cells and create the precise hexagonal shape. This prevents the honey from following out of the cells. Further, they measure the thicknesses of the cell walls to ensure they are precise. Following the construction of cells from wax, the bees add more material to them in order to strengthen
Blue Elderberry (Sambucus nigra subspecies caerulea) is a tall shrub with beautiful lacy clusters of tiny white flowers that look like snowflakes. This fascinating medicinal and edible wild plant grows in North America, Europe, western Asia, and North Africa. In California, the elder grows in wet places below 3000 meters and is a resident of Sonoma County and Bodega Bay. Once pollinated by insects, especially hoverflies, the flowers ripen into round black berries coated with a white wax. The berry clusters resemble constellations of little bluish planets (picture). We have two species of elder in California: blue and red. The red elder (Sambucus racemosa) is not customarily used and is said to be poisonous, although I know a very wise old herbalist who makes jam and medicine of the red berries without
Lonicera Japonica ( the scientific name of the plant) used to be only found in Japan and East asia. This Honeysuckle is quite a beautiful plant with milky white flowers. The flowers turn yellow as they age (fcps.edu). The leaves donn a dark green color and to finish it off, they sprout black berries. And This plant can grow in either a vine or bush form(fcps.edu). There more often seen and known is it's deadly vine form. As the name implies, the Japanese Honeysuckle is native to Japan. But since it's got to America it has become quite invasive. The Japanese Honeysuckle is known
“We lived for honey. We swallowed a spoonful in the morning to wake us up and one at night to put us to sleep. We took it with every meal to calm the mind, give us stamina, and prevent fatal disease. We swabbed ourselves in it to disinfect cuts or heal chapped lips” (Kidd
The lives of humans and honeybees have been intertwined for millennia. For at least 8,000 years, humans have sought honey for applications in disciplines ranging from medicine to the culinary arts. But while humans love honey, honeybees provide a much more valuable service: pollination. As the world’s most prolific pollinator, honeybees are essential to the reproduction of many plant species, which in turn benefits other animals and plants. In fact, humans heavily rely on honeybees to pollinate our own food source, a service that is worth billions of dollars a year. Unfortunately, the honeybee population is in a severe and prolonged decline, often in the form of colony collapse disorder, in which entire colonies are seemingly abandoned by adult bees overnight. Honeybees are an indispensable component of modern agriculture, and a failure to discern and address the many causes of honeybee population decline – both manmade and natural – could have disastrous consequences for the environment and human society.
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