4 Reasons to Always Buy Honey From Your Local Beekeeper
A small change that goes a long way
A few weeks ago, and for the first time in almost two years, I bought a jar of honey from the supermarket. Up until that point, I had been well-provided for by a small, family-run beekeeping business in the small university town where I lived. The biyearly harvests and relatively low demand meant that not only was there always honey to be had when I came knocking, but that it even overflowed into the following year.
You’ll notice I’m speaking in the past tense. That’s because much has changed, both for me personally as well as for my beekeeper friends. As for me, I’ve completed the master’s degree I’ve been pursuing for the past three years and promptly moved out of said small university town. In itself, this is not necessarily a huge impediment to continue getting that quality honey, but it certainly made it less convenient.
The bigger change, and main reason why I’m forced to use the past tense, is that the honey stopped flowing. That is to say, for reasons I won’t get into here, of which some are personal and others that remain unknown to me, the local beekeeping business, which has kept me well-supplied with sweet molten gold for the past two years, has come to an abrupt end.
