Description: Bee Madness Apiary. Honey products, honey recipes and pollination.
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Bee Madness Apiary Richard and Ann Geiger 3322 E State Road 20 Rolling Prairie, IN (409) 233-7492
Since becoming beekeepers our emphasis has been to increase our own use of the products. We have learned that honey is twice as sweet as sugar and replaces about 20% of the liquid. Slight adjustment to regularly used recipes is necessary to acquire the expected products when using honey instead of sugar. The changes in flavor when using honey instead of sugar are astounding. Example: Buckwheat honey sweet cherry jam using cherries our bees pollinated turned out a little "runny" using The Ball Blue Book reci
Our bee yards are located in and near the remnants of the Grand Kankakee Marsh. Pollination of cherries, sweet and sour, Japanese plums, apples, plumcots, and apricots was successful in the spring of 2013. Additionally, effort has been made to attend seminars and practice making queens as well as propagating bees. We have provided starts of bees called a "nuc" to one customer last year and expect to have locally produced and mated nucs and queens available this year as well.