Honey – one of nature’s most versatile and natural phenomena’s is very important to the Rosewood team. The Roman family, the owners of Rosewood are an avid beekeeping family who are now 3rd generation beekeepers. With over 225 hives found all across Niagara’s Escarpment, Rosewood’s honey has a natural delicate wildflower flavour to it, highlighting some amazing flavours from Niagara. Honey is flower nectar collected and made by domesticated honeybees (apis mellifera). Honey is a remarkable product which contains a complex mixture of sugars, enzymes, proteins, organic compounds and trace minerals. Blessed with a rich Greenbelt in Niagara, our millions of bees fly approximately a 2+ mile radius around their hive to collect wildflower and fruit pollen. Bees are extremely important to Niagara and are essential for several fruits including the yellow plums found here in Niagara.
Honey is known to provide us with many health benefits; it is naturally anti-septic proving useful on wounds or against infections and provides instant fast burning energy. Honey can be used extensively in cooking from sweetening smoothies or to honey baked hams. Honey will not spoil if stored correctly and does not need to be refrigerated; simply store it in your pantry away from light. Honey is porous and should be stored away from other foods that “gas off”, i.e. onions or potatoes. Honey will eventually crystallize, if left unused, at which point you can simply take the portion you want to serve and heat it gently in the microwave or warm it up in a warm water bath. Fresh honeycomb will keep for up to 6 – 8 week before the honey might crystallize. You can also freeze honeycomb successfully to store longer.
Did you know that one honey bee will visit 1 million flowers to produce a pound of honey? This bee will fly the distance of 4 times around the world to give you one ounce of honey.
At Rosewood an observation hive is setup during the summer months. A standard ‘nuc’ hive is placed in a rotating window, allowing observers a chance to find the elusive Queen of the hive. Please stop by, take a look and ask us some questions about these interesting creatures.
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