These particular honey are strawberries have a special partnership beyond tasting amazing because they bees who make the honey also pollinate the flowers that create the strawberries. Bee Trail Farm in Lexington has hives places at Cottle Farms, which creates a perfect balance for everyone. The bees get strawberry flower pollen and can use it to make honey and keep the queen happy. The beekeeper gets honey to sell, and the strawberry farmer gets better pollination in their crops, which produces more berries for them to sell. And lucky folks like us can then buy both the honey and the strawberries and create delectable treats from them.
I love nothing more in the spring and summer than to whirring together fruit and sugar and pouring it into an ice pop mold to make easy treats to cool me down and give me my daily servings of fruit.
Strawberry Honey Popsicles
Ingredients
- 2 cups hulled strawberries
- 3 tbsp lemon juice
- ½ cup local honey
- popsicle molds
Instructions
- Puree all of the ingredients together in a blender.
- Pour into the popsicle molds. Insert popsicle sticks.
- Freeze for a few hours or overnight.
- Run water over the lower half of the mold for a few seconds to loosen if needed.
If you're interested in learning more about Bee Trail Farms and beekeeping, I recently wrote a story on them for the April 24 issue of the Free Times. It was one of the most fun interviews I've done to date! And if you're in the Columbia area, don't miss out on your chance to get some Cottle Farm strawberries, either from their roadside stands or by picking them yourself at their farm out off of Garner's Ferry Road. Great people, great food- it's what Columbia is really becoming known for! Bee-sides, what else goes better with good food than good people to share it with? Even if those people are terrible at math jokes for post titles.
