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I hope the folks over at Bee Raw will forgive me for reusing one of their containers for my own produce! We haven't bought bottles yet but I had saved this one just in case. I would have gotten the label off but it's painted on! (And by the way if any of you are looking for some good honey - check them out, their varietals are amazing.)

Anyway, there it is. Our very first jar of honey from Nefertari. We're pretty sure it's mostly clover based on what's available here, the taste, and the color. As you can tell, it's super light. Evidently honey will darken the longer it sits in the comb and the longer it sits in a jar, so this is two days after harvesting, and we harvested I think pretty much immediately after the bees capped it off. This is the lightest colored honey I've ever seen apart from acacia!

Sandy was my hand model there - he did a good job, didn't he?

It's also full of air bubbles. While I let it sit two days before bottling and I skimmed off all the air bubbles that had risen, I don't have a bottling tank so I was pouring the honey out of the bowl it settled in - which reintroduced a lot of air. Oh well. I don't care if it doesn't look perfect, and these first few bottles are just for family and I so no big deal.

Today I went out and walked around the property to see if I could find where the bees were collecting from. I found some on my late-blooming lavender, but the vast majority of the girls out were either in the cow pasture on the clover, or in our lawn on the clover. They were very busy and were buzzing about like nuts from flower to flower.