Senior Honey

Hello again blog followers; I hope you all had a marvelous Labor Day weekend! I sure did as I was able to talk with a beekeeper. Another crop that is featured in September is honey as September is ‘National Honey Month.’ I’ve had the privilege of talking with Maggie Wachter, owner of Senior Honey located in Urbana, Illinois. Wachter sells her honey at the downtown Bloomington Farmers Market. She has bees throughout Central Illinois including McLean and Macon counties. Featuring clover, wildflower, basswood, and even chocolate honey, Wachter enjoys every aspect of working with her bees. 

“The most popular is chocolate honey. Chocolate honey is a mixture of clover honey and fair trade organic cocoa powder. Just those 2 ingredients mixed together make like a chocolate syrup that taste like cocoa and honey. It’s a great replacement for commercial chocolate syrup because instead it doesn’t have any of the bad things. It doesn’t have any fats or additives. Honey keeps your energy levels even and you don’t get hungry after eating honey. It’s a more nutritious alternative to the commercial chocolate syrup. Both chocolate lovers and honey lovers love it so I have a big demand for the chocolate honey,” Wachter said. What is your favorite honey?



Maggie Wachter with her honey

          To hear Maggie talk about Senior Honey click here   http://www.box.net/shared/ahdt8ynu879z6o16ftg9