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...for business and meet G beekeeper, honey producer and bee keeping teacher.
Here he is holding a recently harvested honeycomb from one of his hives.

I have driven past G's road side signs for many a year and have always meant to stop and visit.
But of course didn't.
For the last few weeks he has had another sign advertising 'bee keeping
lessons' and finally today I stopped and  signed up!
Not to actually have bee hives  but just to learn a tad more about bees, honey, its benefits and harvesting the liquid gold.

And now I have learned about 'bee bread' (extra) the bees knees! of fermentation....'made with around 25% honey or nectar, 70% pollen, and bee saliva, which, alongside the honey/nectar, inoculates the pollen with a broad range of natural probiotic bacteria and yeasts, all necessary to kickstart the essential act of fermentation and predigestion.'
And  of course a wee taste test.
Fascinating...I was expecting waxy and chewy but it is very breadlike and delicious.

Move over kimchi!