Marsdens Pure Honey Farm

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Honey Facts

Honeybees gather nectar for honey from hundreds of different flowers and each has its own distinctive flavor such as clover, buckwheat, basswood, cranberry, Russian olive, dandelion, knapweed, etc.
        Honey is the only food on the planet that will not spoil or rot. Honey is produced in most of the countries of the world. Scientists of today also accept honey as a very effective medicine for all kinds of diseases without any side effects. Today's science says that even though honey is sweet, if taken in the right dosage as a medicine, it does not harm diabetic patients.

Composition of Honey

Glucose: 31.3 %, Fructose 38%, Sucrose 1.5% Maltose 7.3%, other sugars 1.5%,   Water 17.2%, Acids .6%, Proteins .3%, Ash .2%, Miscellaneous 2.1%
Caloric value:   60 calories per tablespoon. *
                                                                                                   *   "Honey", Walter Gjomerac, 1981"

Solution for Crystallized Honey

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honey is a natural product of honeybees, a supersaturated solution of natural sugars. When left in a cool dark place for a long time it will "crystallize".

L. Loosen the lid and set the honey container in a pan of hot water; turn off the heat and let it liquefy. Heat the honey to about 120 F. Overheating the honey will kill the healthy enzymes in the honey.

2. Avoid using the microwave as this will quickly overheat the honey and melt plastic containers.

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Marsdens Pure Honey

In 1963, Harold Risse became a part of the Marsden family and brought some beehive equipment for a 4-H project for my brother Dan and I. We started with 6 packages of bees and started them in those beehives. We must have extracted a couple hundred pounds of honey with a little hand cranked extractor. Soon we were selling honey at the end of the drive along with the sweetcorn and strawberries..

About a year later Dan got other ideas and gave up on the bees. So I took on the job of taking care of 7or 8 hives. By the next year I had 12 and the next 27 hives. They helped pay my way through high school and college with the help of some good tobacco harvests.

For the full story go to my Bee Journal page from my story in the Ameican Bee Journal .

Fifty eight years later I am still going to markets and selling local honey.

I move my bees around to pollinate orchards in the spring and garden crops for farmers and get a nice variety of honeys. Recent summer honey flows of dandelion, clover, sunflower, purple loosestrife, and wildflower honeys are available this fall of 2019. I expect to get some goldenrod, other wildflower honeys yet this fall.

I pack raw honey in glass jars, plastic squeese jars and honey bears. I also mix up some creamed (spun) honey and fresh comb honey is available in July and the rest of the season. Beeswax candles are poured in molds for the market as well. In winter I sell indoors about half the days that are available at the Dane County Farmer's Market.

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