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You will find this honey a deep red colour with a rich, fruity flavour and very smooth.
The hives are on Mount Kaliakouda in central Greece where the honey is harvested at an altitude of over 1500 metres. You can enjoy this truly exceptional honey with a delicious chunk of chewy honeycomb.
More on honeydew honey: This is a dark thick runny honey. It is known as a honeydew, because it originates from the sap of the tree not from flower nectar. Honeydews are high in oligosaccharides, which are known for their prebiotic qualities - aiding the beneficial bacteria in the microbiome, the gut flora that scientists have found is crucial for good health.
About the beekeeper: It was brought to us by Thomas, a young Greek beekeeper, who is planning to take over his family's hives, which are in secluded forest glades in and around mountains of central Greece, like on Mount Kaliakouda. He has great enthusiasm for raw honey and natural hive products.
How Raw Honey is different from Processed Honey - Raw honey generally means the honey has not been processed, it has come from the hive to the jar with minimal interference. Most supermarket honey is highly processed to make it look more attractive, usually it has been largely drained of pollen, heated and blended. Raw honey tends to vary from batch to batch, this is because it is not processed in a factory, filtered or heated to look homogeneous. Raw honey changes with the season and climate, the soil, what the bees feed on, and the temperament of the colonies.
Discovering this Red Fir was an adventure.
I'd been looking for a nice honey for a honeycomb chunk product for a couple of years. Then on a little adventure back in June (2023) the ideal honey was revealed to me. This is the story behind the honey.
One evening Thomas told me 'Tomorrow we are going to Mount Kaliakouda. You are going to love it there.'
So, this is the story......It was early one morning when Thomas and his Uncle Stefanos called for me from my hotel. We headed from the plains of Thessaly towards some mountains.
Stefanos was driving in his pickup truck, which was full of the aromas of honey and beeswax. Soon we were crossing gorges on the edge of the plain and then the ascent started. Through little mountain villages, we passed with old guys sitting drinking coffee and watching the world pass by.
Higher and higher we went, twisting and turning through hairpin bends that sent me sliding from one side of the seat to the other. There were less and less signs of human habitation until there was just forest carpeting the mountain.
After about an hour we were so high that we passed through the clouds.
We stopped for a moment to take in an incredible view across the mountains with Fir trees stretching below us and in the distance a lake in a valley.
Then a few minutes later we arrived at the place for the Red Fir honey.
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