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It said later there were 4 boxes damaged and a bee keeper came out to help and he did the best he could on a very busy highway
 

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The bees will cluster as time passes, since they did not do orientation flights out of their hives. They do not know where they are. At that time the bee keeper can try to gather them up and re-hive them.
 

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We belong to some bee keep associations here. The Howard county fair is going on right now, so we sign up to work some shifts and sell our honey there. The club keeps some of the money to pay for speakers etc.

I entered some of my honey into the judging. I entered my extracted honey and creamed honey. I am so tickled! I won a blue ribbon for both!

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Wow excellent @addy1
How do they judge honey, by looks taste or both?

We give them three bottles to judge


extracted i.e. normal honey
Container cleanliness and appearance
freedom from crystals (filtering and the honey has not crystallized some does it real fast)
accuracy of filling the container
Flavor
Density, (water content, if too high the honey will ferment...........yuck!)

Creamed honey

container
fineness of crystals, the finer the better
uniformity and firmness
flavor
accuracy of filling

 
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Great on your blue ribbons! What is different about creamed honey?
 

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Great on your blue ribbons! What is different about creamed honey?
It is like a spread, the honey has very fine crystals, like a good smooth ice cream. Makes it spread like soft butter on toast.
If you are old enough, it is like the butter and honey mix they sold ages ago. But no butter, it is just honey.
 

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It is like a spread, the honey has very fine crystals, like a good smooth ice cream. Makes it spread like soft butter on toast.
If you are old enough, it is like the butter and honey mix they sold ages ago. But no butter, it is just honey.
How do you make it to be creamed?
 

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@addy1 I'm sure you've listed this before, but what flowers are you growing? Are you going for all native plants? And how many are wildflowers?

I haven't seen as many bees this year, and the ones I did see were earlier, in the spring. But. I do admit that the heat has kept me inside more than usual this summer, so the bees may be there.
 

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