The big multinational food companies adulterate with cheaper ingredients, what had been trusted brands until they bought them up, as a matter of course. You buy a product, it tastes unpleasantly different, you look at the small print on the label and see who has bought the company. One of the usual suspects..
I don't know how true it is but there were claims that something like 10 times more honey labelled as 'Manuka honey' was on sale than actually produced.
We have honeybees so have our own honey. Any surplus we make available during the summer/Autumn in an honesty box at the end of our drive. The locals seem to really like it, and most sales now are repeat customers. They like the fact that the honey will be different throughout the year as it depends what the bees have been browsing on. We sell it for far less than shops sell similar British honey .... we have charged £5 for a one lb jar for the last 6 years. All income is used for the bees, so no profit whatsoever.
I have seen "honey" in some supermarkets for £2 .... how they can produce it for that price is beyond me. A few years ago I saw some honey in Harrods .... I think they might have beehives on the roof .... it was £15 for a 12oz jar!!
Bee x
Gardener and beekeeper in beautiful Scottish Borders
A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
My favourite is the honey from Tilia (lime) trees. It has an almost greenish tinge to it, and the most fabulous floral taste .... one neighbour calls it "summer on a spoon".
In a good summer we are able to produce some comb honey which is always popular.
Bee x
Gardener and beekeeper in beautiful Scottish Borders
A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
My father kept Bees on his Allotments, you could really see and taste the difference between the Honey across the season. I remember lime Honey being very pale, and interestingly not too sweet. I remember him putting sections in to get Honey on the comb , though he always said the bees didn't like working it that much so not all of them would be filled, unless as Bee said it was a very abundant year.
Hopefully just an error on on the packet @pansyface . I'm sure you'll be able to tell the difference between a courgette seed and a sweetcorn seed when you look inside the packet . At least they've put a warning not to eat any bitter fruit.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
A place for everything and everything in its place with a label on types won't get this but in a fit of madness, I tidied and put away my seed tin last year. I have just experienced five minutes of panic while I searched for it. What seems like a logical place to store something last year doesn't seem so obvious this year. The fact that I will never sow the old seeds and they'd probably be more use in a bowl of muesli is irrelevant - particularly as I don't drink milk and therefore have little use for muesli anyway - but one's tin of seeds is as precious as the Quality Street tin of screws and the one of nails that will surely would've come in useful as soon as you throw them away.
I keep my seeds in a polystyrene box. I kid myself that it creates stable seed-bank style conditions inside but in reality it probably just uses up a lot of space for seeds that I'll never use again. I had naff all else to use the box for though. I used to use it to transport tropical fish but gave that hobby up about 15 years ago.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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Any surplus we make available during the summer/Autumn in an honesty box at the end of our drive.
The locals seem to really like it, and most sales now are repeat customers.
They like the fact that the honey will be different throughout the year as it depends what the bees have been browsing on.
We sell it for far less than shops sell similar British honey .... we have charged £5 for a one lb jar for the last 6 years. All income is used for the bees, so no profit whatsoever.
I have seen "honey" in some supermarkets for £2 .... how they can produce it for that price is beyond me. A few years ago I saw some honey in Harrods .... I think they might have beehives on the roof .... it was £15 for a 12oz jar!!
Bee x
A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
In a good summer we are able to produce some comb honey which is always popular.
Bee x
A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
I remember him putting sections in to get Honey on the comb , though he always said the bees didn't like working it that much so not all of them would be filled, unless as Bee said it was a very abundant year.
-sounds as if the problem may have originated in honey imported from abroad but blended and/or packed in Britain, labelled "honey from more than one country". Memo to self: read the label...
I have just experienced five minutes of panic while I searched for it. What seems like a logical place to store something last year doesn't seem so obvious this year.
The fact that I will never sow the old seeds and they'd probably be more use in a bowl of muesli is irrelevant - particularly as I don't drink milk and therefore have little use for muesli anyway - but one's tin of seeds is as precious as the Quality Street tin of screws and the one of nails that will surely would've come in useful as soon as you throw them away.