No Market and Honey Updates

I won't be at the Urbana Market this Saturday due to a conflict. We're planning on attending next week though!

I've had a lot of requests for honey. This year we're selling glass jars of fresh honey for $6.50 each. Creamed honey will be available later in the season. There is a *very* limited quantity of bulk honey available, if you are interested you will need to contact Linda at (217) 832-8200.

Our honey is not mass produced or medicated with pesticides, antibiotics etc. so it's only available in limited quantities. Before any honey is harvested, each hive is inspected and assessed. We believe the bees come first, and honey is only harvested from hives that have produced more than their winter supply.

Honey Soon!

Ben took a couple honey supers off the hives the other evening. We should have honey ready to sell very soon!!

Here's my Market display at the Urbana Farmer's Market! I'm on the third row facing east.
My lovely Mum! :)
Goat's Milk Soaps
Beeswax Candles

Bath Bombs

"Only 50cents each! Made with sweet Almond oil and pure essential oils these bath seltzers are aromatherapy in your bath tub. Choose from Lavender, Lemon, Grapefruit, Peppermint or Spearmint"

Thats what my description says.... but I just love making them! :-) Here they are ready for Saturday's Market.

Update

I've been really bad about updates here recently, am trying to get back on track. I've changed my work schedule so I'm only working Monday, Wednesday and Friday in Champaign and have Tuesdays and Thursday to devote to soaping and candle making (amoungst other things of course!).

We've enjoyed a wonderful spring and early summer. I don't ever recall having such moderate weather. Usually we jump from snow to smothering humidity so I'm not complaing at all. The downside is its made all the plants etc much later than usual. This spells delay for the bees as well. Generally we expect our first honey "flow" late May. This year it was mid June, almost a month later. We are expecting we'll be able to take honey off our hives this week and will possibly have it at Market this Saturday!

The goats are doing very well. Babies are growing like weeds and the does have settled into the summer routine very amiably. I'm now milking all four and we are awash with milk. Time to do some serious soaping! :)

I'm happy to have a more relaxed schedule for summer and hopefully will be able to devote lots of time this week to making candles for Market Saturday.

Strawberries!

I made some yummy strawberry jam with these! The flavor is unparalleled, the only drawback is that with the cooler spring the berries aren't very sweet. Doesn't matter in jam though!

Wrapping Soap

We wrapped lots of soap in preparation for Market.

The heart shaped bars are very popular

My favorite soap. So of course its blue.... :-)