Honey Harvesting
November 19, 2007 by Trent Adams
I’m becoming more interested in local harvesting by the minute. I’ve been predisposed to sustainable living since I ran into the concept of building Earthships while growing up in the Southwest. Layer on top of that reading the book “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” (my larder has gone through a radical restructuring since this book entered my house), and my growing interest in the concept of “food miles“.
Anyway… that’s all very well and good, but what’s a suburbanite like myself to do? Well, here’s a fun, sticky, and sweet way to start. A friend of mine has her own bees (and chickens), so we made a party out of this year’s harvest. Actually, we invited ourselves over to raid her honeycombs. It was totally fun interacting with the folks who descended on her place with jars in hand.
The feeling of local community harvesting was alive and well in her kitchen (especially since we used a an ancient honey spinner). The experience really got me thinking about what more we could do like this. I’m noodling the idea of a yearly “Harvest Party” where we invite the neighbors to a shindig where we share what we’ve harvested from our own land (or otherwise made using local resources). Social networking the old fashioned way.
