Is small farming profitable?

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When we infuse our honey we heat it ever so slightly, add the lavender buds, let it cool and steep, then reheat ever so slightly again, and then strain out the lavender. You can do this with any herb or edible flower, I've used lemon balm before and rose geranium too. You don't want to heat the honey up too much however as it destroys the good stuff honey is all about and can give the herbs an off taste as well. So, we heat just enough to make it runny and pretty warm, enough to steep it.

I tried to keep bees for a while at our WA farm, but now we spend the better part of the year in MT and it's a lot of effort here with the cold weather. So, we purchase our honey here from local apiaries.

We also process and package in a rented commerical kitchen. Luckily the local bee guy her in MT has his own commercial kitchen as he's already packaging his honey for commerical.

Lavender grown on Maui is so floral and fragrant, as I'm sure it is on the BI. I bet it would be a yummy treat should you decide to do that.

And then, I dreamt of Hawaii... http://crazypineappledream.blogspot.com/