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Sweet: Summer in the City Honey

POSTED: Thursday, August 12, 2010, 5:26 PM

Filed Under: Food News | Product Placement

Plenty of students complete summer-long internships, but we've never heard of honey bees taking one on until now. Summer in the City Honey is a joint venture between West Philly's Milk & Honey Market (4435 Baltimore Ave.) and Two Gander Farms. In May, Trey Flemming, apiarist and proprietor of the 23-acre Berks County farmstead, brought seven hives to the city and placed them at various sites in West, North and South Philly (including Milk & Honey's roof). The swarms were able to gather nectar from a diversity of flora in this new urban landscape (including black locust, bush honeysuckle and wild clover), producing honey with flavors far different than if they'd spent the same amount of time in the countryside. The stuff is now on sale will soon be on sale at Milk & Honey at $1 an ounce, and a portion of proceeds will benefit the Philadelphia Orchard Project. UPDATE: Summer in the City Honey will become available at Milk & Honey over Labor Day Weekend.

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