Thank you Bees

I'm incredibly pleased to be able to offer a third "local honey" at Tastes. I think we have the shop pretty much surrounded now with an apiary in Iver (5 miles NE), Wargrave (13 miles W) and now in Windsor (2 miles SW). Getting a steady supply of honey is still a problem. Sadly, we don't have Iver honey at the moment due to the wet spring, but hopefully the hives will recover soon.

The Windsor hives are the closest to our shop in Eton (less than 2 miles as the bee flies). But while we are keeping the food miles down, those bees aren't!

Apparently, to make 1 kg of honey the bees have to fly 96 000 kilometers (see "Energy Efficiency of. Honey Production by Bees." E. E. Southwick and D. Pimentel. Bioscience (1981) 31, 10; 370 – 732). So for each 380g jar of honey the bees have flown 22 000 miles (36 000 km) which is the equivalent of flying from London to Auckland (NZ) and back! Well done bees! You amaze me.