I have a colleague who has their own beehive and they collect their own honey out of the hive. They gifted us a jar of the honey a while back, and it was crazily delicious... and I've heard that eating honey from your local area is supposed to be better for you, something about similar environments or something like that. I wasn't really sure... but I have always liked getting local honey, if only to just supposed the local producers over the large companies.

Anyway, after that honey jar ran out quite some time ago... we have been buying honey from the supermarket, but recently, I saw a notice for a local honey producer... and they lived pretty close by as well.

Now, when I went to the "distribution" point, I was a little bit surprised to see that they had a little wood-box stand that was lined with honey jars... and a laminated price list, and a locked "honesty" box for putting your money in. Wow, that was a pretty local bottoms-up way of doing business! There is hope for the future after all... seeing as the world that we currently live in is beset by trust problems (hence the decentralised technologies that will serve to disperse that problem and the attendant rent seekers). Sure... I wouldn't be htat surprised if there was a camera trained on the box... but I would also be sort of surprised (and slightly disappointed) if people actually stole from the honey box.

Anyway, I picked out these four interesting flavours (and put my cash in the box!)... the girls helped me choose from the roughly 15 different flavours that were in the honey stand... I was tempted to buy one of everything, but I'm sure that that would have gone down REALLY badly with my wife. The girls had chosen the two creamed honey versions... the chocolate (more like cocoa?) and the vanilla... whilst I had chosen the two "normal" ones that were ginger and lemon flavoured instead.

We did open the two creamed honey jars when we got home to have on some bread... and they were pretty damn good! The chococlate one wasn't as strong as I was thinking that it might be... it sort of reminded me a bit more of a dark caramel rather than honey...meanwhile, the vanilla one was much stronger in the vanilla taste!

At around 10 dollars per jar, they are more expensive than what you get at the supermarket... but I think those extra couple of dollars are worth it just to support the local producer. I'll definitely be visiting that honey stand again when our regular non-flavoured honey runs out!

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