the stuff you bought in Scotland wasn't 'pure' heather, the bees were obviously foraging something else with the heather. it sometimes leads to a creamy soft almost set honey which goes down really well with many.
Ragwort?
That makes sense. I'm one of the many; it was the only honey I bought. It was from Heather Hills Honey Farm in Blairgowrie and was always in the supermarket for a fiver - till I emigrated in 2017. I see it costs a bit more now.
That is amazing. Also, to be so in touch with the bees' foraging activity.
No doubt. Isn't bramble the country's largest forage source now in these post clover days?
No bramble for well over two miles , these hives are right bang in the middle of the Mourne mountains with nothing else around them but bell and ling heather.
Most complaints of heather crystallisation refer to large crystals suggestive of a slow process, but the cause of Darren's smooth set is likely to be a fast process high in glucose. A brassica such as hedge mustard would do it, but Darren is certain that nothing grows there except heather. Does HB set fast?
I’m sure there is more than just heather growing even on the top of the black mountains there is willow herb , ragwort, and bramble in sucluded pockets
