Tag: honey

  • Bees-N-Trees Farm – Bill Fisher

    717-329-3216beesntrees@hotmail.comBased in Hershey PA Offering Bees – Packages, Nucs, Queens, Full Hives Click to download order form

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  • Mead Making with Dr. Norris Childs – part 4

    Mead Making with Dr. Norris Childs – part 4

    This four-class series, led by Norris Childs, introduces participants to mead-making, covering fermentation, aging, and finishing. Classes meet every other Saturday from April 4 to May 16, culminating in a shared bottle of mead. Attendees will learn in a unique honey house environment in Philadelphia. Norris has extensive mead-making experience.

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  • Mead Making with Dr. Norris Childs – part 2

    Mead Making with Dr. Norris Childs – part 2

    This four-class series, led by Norris Childs, introduces participants to mead-making, covering fermentation, aging, and finishing. Classes meet every other Saturday from April 4 to May 16, culminating in a shared bottle of mead. Attendees will learn in a unique honey house environment in Philadelphia. Norris has extensive mead-making experience.

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  • Mead Making with Dr. Norris Childs – part 3

    Mead Making with Dr. Norris Childs – part 3

    This four-class series, led by Norris Childs, introduces participants to mead-making, covering fermentation, aging, and finishing. Classes meet every other Saturday from April 4 to May 16, culminating in a shared bottle of mead. Attendees will learn in a unique honey house environment in Philadelphia. Norris has extensive mead-making experience.

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  • Mead Making with Dr. Norris Childs – part 1

    Mead Making with Dr. Norris Childs – part 1

    This four-class series, led by Norris Childs, introduces participants to mead-making, covering fermentation, aging, and finishing. Classes meet every other Saturday from April 4 to May 16, culminating in a shared bottle of mead. Attendees will learn in a unique honey house environment in Philadelphia. Norris has extensive mead-making experience.

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  • USDA Announces New Marketing Assistance for Specialty Crop Producers

    USDA Announces New Marketing Assistance for Specialty Crop Producers

    The USDA’s Marketing Assistance for Specialty Crops (MASC) program supports specialty crop producers, including honey sellers, with cash payments based on prior sales. Applications are open from Dec. 10, 2024, to Jan. 8, 2025. Eligible producers must be active and share the risks associated with specialty crop production.

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  • Honey Fest and Chestnut Hill Fall for the Arts Fest – Our best sales days yet!

    Honey Fest and Chestnut Hill Fall for the Arts Fest – Our best sales days yet!

    On Sunday Sept 15th, we put up our yellow tent on Germantown Avenue and spent the day talking about honey bees and showing off the girls in their observation hive. Our volunteers (which could be you next!) had the chance to share tastes of our honey with festival attendees. The variations in honey flavor profiles…

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  • Honey  Fest  This Saturday  and Bee Chat  Tonight

    Honey Fest This Saturday and Bee Chat Tonight

    That’s right, the best Saturday of the year is upon us! We’ll be celebrating bees and all things honey, from mead to candles to the raw local good stuff directly from our beekeepers. Join us for Honey Fest – A Philadelphia Beekeepers Guild Tradition at Wyck House on Germantown Avenue from 10 to 4. If…

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  • Calling All Bee Enthusiasts!

    We need your passion and support at the upcoming Annual Philadelphia Honey Festival!! This event is a fantastic opportunity to showcase the importance of honey bees, promote urban beekeeping, and sell your honey to eager visitors. Event Details: Volunteer Opportunity: You are the heart of this festival! If you can spare some time and energy, please…

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  • Time to Consign!

    Time to Consign!

    It’s that time again. Honey Fest is just around the corner and we’re planning on selling some honey. We’re asking for people to sign up even if they have before so we can make sure we have current honey kitchen certificates and know who is coming. How do you sign up you ask? Go to…

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