Feeding extracted ivy honey back to the bees.

[MikeT]

I had about 20lbs of ivy honey this year. It tastes foul and is set hard in the jars. I have never fed honey back to bees before and I am wondering if I can feed this back to my bees like fondant. Family and friends dislike the honey they all remarked how awful the flavour is. I have made a gallon of mead with 4lbs of it, not sure yet how it has turned out. I do not want to through it away - better to feed it back to the hive that produced it.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Soft set it and advertise on fleabay. There's lots of folk who love it !

 

[beeno]

Hi Mike,
Yep, feed it back to the bees the honey that is not the mead. One of my hives really smelt of Ivy honey today.

 

[Jimy Dee]