Mountain Mint Honey

•0:11 evaluating and tasting mountain mint honey
•5:10 beeyard facts & information
•7:20 plant identification and description

[dadu]

Good Morning Bob Binnie! Happy Sunday to ya. Jack is a world of knowledge on plants and flowers. He has a great speaking voice. Kinda like morgan freeman. Thanks for sharing sir!

[russellkoopman]

Jack is such an amazing man. His knowledge is incredible. Thanks Bob for the video and have a great week.

[autumnpaul]

Another great video- Jack is a volume of knowledge! Really wonderful for you to make these videos on specific flower types.

[dcsblessedbees]

Those are what I'd call 🤨perplexed facial reactions.😂
I like Jack, Jack teaches me things about plants. Thanks for sharing your time with us Bob, Blessed Days...

[mikefrench]

Another great educational video! We have invasive Korean Perilla mint here in the eastern ozarks. Last year bees made fall harvest for us. I liked it personally. It was dark, flowers are blue. Not sure if that makes a difference.

[karlsteingall]

Great video Bob, thanks!
I’m getting ready to take a few supers of honey off my hives here in NE Pennsylvania. You energized my curiosity as to what the flavor will be like! Thanks again for another wonderful insight into your operation!

[aileensmith]

As always something interesting on a Sunday morning. Thank You for the fun and informative videos!

[dlwood]

Good morning Bob, thanks for all the videos! I love seeing you guys checking all the different yards

[beebob]

Katie is impressive. Instead of wine, she's a honey expert.
I guess every region has its unique flavors. Each year our local honey tastes a little bit different.

[hillkidmountains]

We have mountain mint here in California at 2, 750 ft. elevation in a big lower meadow about 100 or more yards from where I kept my colonies of honeybees for years. It is in full sunlight even though many conifer trees surround the area. There's a lot of winter rain runoff that accumulates in the spring and it grows well despite that. The bees, butterflies, and other local insects flock to pollinate it while also gathering ample nectar from the flowers. The deer and rabbits don't seem to bother it very much. I will pick some leaves and chew on them when walking down through the fields where the plants grow to the small pond below it. I grab sprigs to bring up to my hives early in the morning to rub on my hands, arms, and face to keep the mosquitoes away. Quite aromatic when you rub the leaves between your fingers. And I will often chew a bit in my mouth to sometimes help with heartburn and digestion. Will hang and dry out some cut plants too for mint honey lemon tea for later in the winter. Lots of individual florets when blooming over a period of time around the bud, kind of like the beneficial weed plantain that grows here that the bees also go after for nectar pollen that you mentioned in a previous video. So appreciate the knowledge and footage about how mountain mint grows in your area, the taste when rendered into honey, and to all those that shared the specifics on the plantings next to your home and neighbors. Thanks, Gary. 🐝

[dcsblessedbees]

🤔Can you be a Bee King and a Honey Judge at the same time😁Bob Bennie The a Judicious King of Honey Bees.👍
Thanks much Bob, I really enjoy your videos. Blessed Days...

[stevesoutdoorworld]

Very cool vid Bob! Always learn some good stuff.😁

[Manuherikiabeekeeping]

Amazing 😃 really interesting to learn about rare north American honeys and their plants. See your team was definitely gun shy about the green honey 😂 I had a interesting honey experience myself yesterday, helping a hobbyist with three hives, unfortunately he left the queen excluders on a single deep management, lost one colony completely, so I pulled the deep honey super off that but the bee's had quite a bit of burr comb capped on the queen excluder and it's a lot lighter than thyme honey so I tasted some and it was eucalyptus and thyme mixed, a neighbor of his has quite a stand of eucalyptus growing for firewood harvesting and it's not a bad mix, thyme and eucalyptus honey. Novel experience pulling a capped honey super in mid winter though😂 25 kilos or 55 american pounds, not bad for a inexperienced first year beekeeper👍 just gotta help him fine tune a few things and he'll be on fire 👍🔥 great video 👍👋

[frankspataro]

Good info bob as always I made a honey this year that had a buttery taste kinda like the old kings syrup for pancakes I don't know what it was may even been a honey dew

[mrwood]

I just discovered this on my property in the last month. Not a ton of it but they are interesting looking that's for sure

[gloriayoder]

Have Jack give a seminar on identifying honey plants at the Bee Expo

[brycehanson]

I have a small patch of mountain mint near my apiary but I rarely see honeybees on it. I see mainly bumble bees, wasps and bald faced hornets working the mint.

[researcherAmateur]

I must say good day Bob. It's 2PM here. That doesn't look at all like the other varieties of mints... they mostly have blueish flowers and hairy oily leaves. I grow a lot of them and oregano for teas and pizza mixes. I even export to US oregano for pizza that actually is 3/4 oregano and 1/4 mint. They like poor soils and full sun. It's like a blue carpet when they flower.. usually with a little of black berry flow l can get a super or two. But mint where l am can flower many times in a year if it gets enough rain. If the competition knew how many times l extract mint and oregano l would be constantly surrounded with hives in trailers. The honey is almost transparent.. like black locust

[kathyhathaway]

Hello Bob here in central NC I had a different taste of honey this year in just PART of my spring honey an have never had it before . It was kind of like a medicine taste . That is the best thing I can think of for the taste an it was real real clear but after a few weeks it does have a little red tint to it an that medicine taste seams to go away some an the first taste when uncapping was not good at all . I do not think was privet mixed in became it comes at a different time an our weather damaged it but I did get a little bit of privet. Ya for sure every year is different. Thanks

[toddknecht]

My bees made a good amount of spring honey this year, I’ve been struggling what to call it, light green hue, tastes like freshly split cherry wood smells, I think a mix of wild cherry and black locust