On Successful on the honey displays
I’m overdue getting this publish up about our super luck on the North American and American Honey Presentations.
Within the intervening time, we’ve won numerous media consideration about those wins. The exceptional public reaction and toughen has been actually superb.
So listed here are the long-overdue main points:
In early January we took some make a selection honeys to each the North American Honey Display in Louisville, Kentucky, and the American Honey Display in New Orleans. Those are each highly-regarded and hard displays the place the contest is stiff.
What Categories our honey gained
To our marvel, our Creamed Honey positioned first with a PERFECT ranking on the American Honey Display. We then took Easiest In Display. It additionally took Easiest In Elegance on the NAHS. The Creamed Honey elegance is possibly probably the most tricky to win.
As Rick Sutton, the American Honey Display pass judgement on, advised CBC information:“Their creamed honey used to be the most productive I’ve ever judged and tasted. It won an ideal ranking of 100.”
As well as, our fireweed honey, which we acquire up top within the Purcell and Selkirk Mountains, gained first position within the American Display. It took a blue ribbon within the “Additional Water White” elegance. That is the lightest color elegance to be judged.
Our Easiest In Display creamed honey used to be offered at a charity public sale for $650 US, or $870 Cdn in keeping with jar. Our fireweed offered at public sale for $250 US or $335 Cdn in keeping with jar. (Consider me, we don’t fee the ones costs on our web page!)
Our Cranberry-Orange Creamed Honey, a seasonal honey infusion created by way of Amanda, gained first position within the NAHS for Creamed Infusions.
And Amanda’s honey sourdough bread additionally got here first on the NAHS for honey bread loaves. She handiest realized the way to make sourdough this iciness. A part of her luck used to be that she wrapped it up in considered one of our massive beeswax wraps to stay it recent.
Oh, and our Swan Valley Honey label, designed by way of Farm Meals Drink, took 3rd on the NAHS for honey label designs.
Strikingly, the Easiest In Display and firsts had been the primary instances Canadians had ever gained within the lengthy historical past of the AHS.
The NAHS, even supposing new as a part of YouTuber Kamon Reynolds’ stupendous North American Honey Bee Expo, used to be the biggest honey display at the continent, with over 1,100 entries.
What Those Awards actually Imply
Those are enjoyable and validating wins for us. I you ought to be humble about what this implies, and now not let Amanda and myself get too stuffed with ourselves. What I do assume, then again, is this popularity is helping remind the general public a number of issues.
This as soon as once more raises the profile of excellent meals produced right here within the Kootenay area of British Columbia.That is a space of Canada mythical for excellent high quality agricultural produce. From milk and grains to tree and berry culmination to export-quality alfalfa hay, our valley rocks.
Those wins additionally remind the general public concerning the worth of natural, uncooked honey. This healthy, excellent meals doesn’t want to be wrecked by way of overheating or pasteurizing. The general public craves excellent native meals, and our honeys have compatibility that invoice fairly smartly.
And finally, I feel those wins additionally assist different beekeepers as smartly. I’ve a word I really like to make use of about “a emerging tide floats all boats”. It approach, on this case, that after our little corporate does smartly that others additionally get advantages.
Why The Public cares
The general public understands that beekeeping is difficult and that we are facing massive headwinds in conserving our little buddies alive and wholesome. Sicknesses, pests, insecticides, converting local weather and converting agricultural forages all play arduous in opposition to our bees.
So after they do smartly, and by way of result we get advantages, then I feel all beekeepers by way of elegance get advantages.
Sure, it used to be Honey Bee Zen and Swan Valley Honey that gained those prestigious awards as a result of our honey bees. However in doing so I feel all of my native beekeeper buddies and festival benefited. It helps to keep our collective efforts and objectives top-of-mind for the general public.