The honey produced is all natural, and because the surrounding
land used by the bees isn’t sprayed with pesticides or
any chemicals, the honey is pure. It goes straight from the
hive to the jar.
Walt's busiest time of year is late summer, when he harvests the honey. He needs to take each row of honeycomb, in each hive, and extract the honey using centrifugal force. This takes a lot of work considering he collects about six tons of pure honey each year. He also collects about a ton of raw honey and round comb honey. This honey is not altered and remains within the comb. It can be used on muffins, bagels, fruit and even chewed like gum. Nothing is wasted during Walt's processing; even the wax he has left over after jarring is made into candles and sold.
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• Bees produce honey in order
to have food during the winter when there are no flowering
plants. Most bees produce so much honey that there is
more then enough to be harvested by farmers and to allow
the bees to survive the long winters.
• Making honey is no easy chore for bees. For one
pound of honey, bees will need to travel almost 60,000
miles and visit more than two million flowers to gather
enough nectar.
• Honey has also been used by people as a food source
and as a sweetener as far back as 40 B.C. Honey was valued
so highly in Egypt that it could be used as money.
• A honey bee will stroke its’ wings about
11,400 times per minute which results in a loud buzzing
sound.
• A honey bee in her lifetime will only make about
1/12 of a teaspoon of honey.
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| Selling his honey and other products at various stores and festivals, Walt has developed a
loyal costumer base that returns year after year. He offers a variety of honey and different products; from a pale and delicate honey to a flavored honey with garlic and peppers and even pure bee pollen. In all, about ten different flavors and four different shades of honey are available. Many jars of honey still have bee pollen; propolis and honey comb mixed in, which are healthy and nutritious. The quality of the honey depends on the variety of flowering plants available for the bees and according to Walt there are plenty in Chester County, PA.
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