635892 Sun Jul 12 00:11:06 -0700 2009 4 1 San Francisco Bay Area 0 4850476 I had to go to the NEW Her Majesty's Secret Beekeeper because I love honey. The store is small, but she has lots of cool stuff inside. Local SF honey: Glen Canyon honey from Glen Park 8oz $11.99 or 16oz for $23.99 Uncle Mike Sunset honey 1lb $15.99 Marshall Farm's SF City limit small jar $5.99 Snyder's honey from La Honda, CA - Eucalyptus or Wildflower 1lb/$17.99 Marshall Farm's honeycomb in jar $25.99 Nuts in Honey: pecan nut sweeties or macadamia nut sweeties, some Hawaiian honey: Hawaiian creamy lehua honey, Hawaiian Christmas Berry, etc. Lg rolled beeswax taper candles $3.99 Honey blossom soap $13.99-14.99 Kosher honey - didn't get price honey sticks .25c ea lip balm $3 ea Moonshine Trading Co: yellow star thistle $7.99 - named "champagne of honey" by Food & Wine Magazine she wrote. Moonshine Trading Co Calif. apricot or cherry honey spread Supplies for beekeepers Books & "The Secret Life of Bees" movie. Some samples given if you ask. Recommended. Website: http://www.hmsbeekeeper.com/HMSB/Welcome.html Hrs: Daily 12-7p Sun Jul 12 00:11:07 -0700 2009 10677 hhc 1 4850886 my pics: http://picasaweb.google.com/hiketoomuch/HerMajestySecretBeekeeperSFNewHoneyStore?feat=email# Sun Jul 12 08:20:39 -0700 2009 4850476 10677 hhc 1 4850931 Nice report! I love honey, too. It's one of my favorite things to bring back from my travels. I've brought home chestnut honey from Italy, honey from just down the road from my aunt's house new Norwich, England, and I just brought back two kinds of honey from Hawaii: palm blossom and coffee blossom (an amazing honey that looks almost like molasses and has a faint but distinct coffee flavor). But you can't get any more local than the tiny bit of honey comb I got from the bee hive I had removed from my house (yes, I paid big bucks to have it carefully removed to Tilden Park)! Pretty cool to have honey made literally in my house, although of course you can't leave it there or it causes all kinds of problems. With all the distressing news about colony collapse disorder affecting bees, it's important to support people who are taking care of our little friends, and one way to do that is to buy artisan honey -- a lot of cheap store-bought honey comes from China and is blended specifically so as not to have much flavor. Not only that, but it may contain antibiotics and other banned chemicals: http://www.seattlepi.com/local/397445_honey26.html?source=mypi Sun Jul 12 08:38:36 -0700 2009 4850476 10159 Ruth Lafler 1 4875358 I happened into this store over the weekend and was enchanted! The store is small and not overcrowded and pretty; I was drawn inside. Once there, the sweet owner offered me a honey tasting, which I accepted. I tasted several local honeys and ended up buying the Marshall's Farm SF blend, which has caramel-y notes to me, and the Uncle Mike's honey, which I believe is made at a Glen Park location. It has a citrusy flavor. The best honey I tried was the Liberty Hill honey, which tasted strongly of brown sugar and lavender and was just fantastic; that one, unfortunately, was sold out. I also tasted a Hawaiian honey, made from bees that had fed from fireweed (which apparently grows after a fire); it had a wonderful smoky taste. I'm addicted! Wish I had any kind of yard I could keep bees in. I had Fage yogurt with a big dollop of the Uncle Mike today and it was just lovely. Mon Jul 20 15:54:04 -0700 2009 4850476 29530 pointybird 1 4875361 Oh, and I should say, the honey tasting was $2 but since I bought honey she took $2 off the price of my purchases. Mon Jul 20 15:54:52 -0700 2009 4850476 29530 pointybird