Buzzin Apiaries — Raw Cotton Blossom Honey (1 lb)

Cotton blossom honey, a Valley specialty most people have never tasted.

The San Joaquin Valley grows cotton, and cotton blooms in summer when little else does, so the bees work it hard. The honey is light amber, mild and smooth, with a soft, almost buttery sweetness and none of the sharp edge of wildflower. It is one of the milder honeys, which makes it a good everyday jar for tea and baking, and it is a taste of a crop that defines this part of California. Raw and unheated, so the enzymes and pollen are intact.

Who this is for

• Anyone who finds wildflower or buckwheat too strong
• Tea and coffee drinkers who want a clean, mild sweetener
• Bakers replacing sugar with a honey that will not take over the flavor
• A gift that tells a Central Valley story

Details

• Ingredients: 100% raw cotton blossom honey. 1 lb jar
• Store at room temperature. May crystallize over time, which is normal. Warm gently to loosen
• Do not feed honey to infants under one year old

Buzzin Apiaries is run by Colton Rocha in Gustine, California, thirty-five miles from our Modesto store. It started as his high-school 4-H project and has grown to about a thousand hives.