Winnie the Pooh and I have a lot in common, we both love honey.

“I eat my peas with honey; 
I’ve done it all my life. 
It makes the peas taste funny, 
But it keeps them on the knife”.

I have always  loved honey. I love its texture,its smell and  its taste.

 Each jar when its opened takes me on a journey to where the bees first started the journey of turning pollen into the nectar that we generically know as  honey.

One smell can take me to the fireweed covered sunny slopes on a mountain or the tangled brambles of a river estuary.

The magic of natures finest pollinator is a marvel unto itself.

Humans have used bees for thousands of years to create life sustaining food and beverages.

They were revered by the Egyptians and are still critical to the cultivation of fruit and vegetables today, throughout the world.

The video below is an example the dream that brought millions of immigrants to Canada. It illustrates the courage, the  tenacity and strength needed to follow that dream to a foreign land and turn that dream into reality.

I have known the Fredrichs and their  honey for many years. I still marvel at the honey that they produce and the way in which they do so.

Close your eyes as you open a jar of their honey and retrace the journey that they and their bees took to bring this elixir to you.

This is their web site – http://fredrichshoney.ca

Trish Summerhayes.
Owner/Publisher of Island Woman Magazine.

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Click this link to watch the video: – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn26gJWcNZ0

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