Honey from my honey

 

 

 

 

 

I consider myself lucky that I'm able to sample freshly harvested forest honey from Palawan. Actually Y harvested this lovely honeycomb (and honey) in one of his recent work trips, and he brought it home all bottled up for us to enjoy with our breakfast bread.

It was my first time to try honeycomb - it's chewy, and the honey inside squirts into your mouth! Yummy!

Side stories:

One. The difference from all the commercial stuff is that it's naturally organic and is made by forest bees. Of course this is highly seasonal. Most honey in the market (at least local brands) is made by cultured bees in apiaries, or manmade honeyhouses. Depending on the brand it can or can be organic, or it can just claim to be organic. That's a problem there, there are no guidelines as of yet for getting honey in the Philippines certified as organic.

If you want to buy honeycomb like this, the only two places I know where you can get it is through the group Y is working with (and only by special request) and at Healthy Options for about 500 pesos.

Two. It's amazing how bees know how to make honeycomb. These hexagonal cells have marvellous geometric efficiency - maximizing the use of wax yet packing more honey inside. Read some more here.