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Salmon with Caramelized Balsamic Onions

1 Tbsp butter
1 very large onion, thinly sliced
1 Tbsp. Balsamic Vinegar
2 tsp. honey
Salt & pepper to taste
4 (4-6 oz) salmon fillets

Preheat oven to 400¡F and spray a baking sheet with nonstick cooking spray. Melt butter in a large skillet. Separate onion rings and add to skillet. Cook over medium heat for 10 minutes, stirring frequently. Reduce heat to low and cook for 10 minutes more. Stir in vinegar and honey, then season with salt and pepper. While onions are cooking, rinse salmon and place on prepared baking sheet; sprinkle with salt and pepper. Bake for 10 to 20 minutes or until salmon is cooked to your liking. Top with onions. Makes 4 servings.            

bee on Michaelmas daisy
In the autumn bees go to the aster family flowers. This is a Michaelmas Daisy, a autumn favorite of our bees.

honey bottles

Statice and lavender are in our Spring and Summer honey.

bee on borage

We have lots of Borage on the farm and the bees really love it! It makes great honey, too! Here in Northern California Borage blooms almost all year.

Scalloped Sweet Potatoes and Apples

3 large tart unpared apples
4 medium sweet potatoes, cooked
1/4 C. butter
1 tsp. salt
1/2 C. honey

Instructions:
Slice apples 1/2 inch thick; cut potatoes in 1/2 inch slices. Saute apples in 2 Tbps. butter in skillet until light brown. Arrange alternate layers of potatoes and apples in greased casserole. Sprinkle with salt. Combine remaining butter and honey. Pour over casserole. Bake at 375¡F for 40 minutes. Yield: 6 servings

This recipe can also be made substituting raw, peeled winter squash slices for the sweet potatoes.


Bee collecting pollen from clover
The bees love collecting
pollen and nectar from Clover .

Baked Mini Pumpkin

Cut the top off the mini-pumpkin. Scoop out the seeds. Fill the cavity with a teaspoon of honey, a half teaspoon of butter or olive oil and season with pumpkin pie spice, nutmeg or cinnamon. Bake for 4 minutes in the micro-wave with the top back on the little pumpkin.

 



Not all honey is equal in flavor, sweetness or aroma.
It all depends on where the bees gathered their nectar.

Our wild flower honey is a light flavored, medium amber hue.
Our honey was awarded four ribbons at the 2007 Harvest Fair.

To the best of our knowledge our
honey is a combination of some of the following nectars:
wild mustard, clover, lavender, stork's beak, wild radish, borage, pumpkin blossoms,
roses, statice,pennyroyal, mint, lemon verbena, black locust, catalpa, and sunflowers.

What they forage on depends, of course, on what is blooming.


The honey is sold here at the farm in 12 ounce squeeze bears and larger jars. We harvested a great spring and fall 2007 honey crop. The bees were out on the wild mustard, wild radish, dandelions,borage, blackberries and other flowers. Most of our honey is a medium color with a mild, pleasant taste.

We have made some very nice skin softner bars with our
beeswax cappings and pure olive oil.
We also made some lip balm for your chapped lips.
Come by and pick up some of these products .

All our honey is raw honey that has been extracted right here on the farm and carefully strained through a double layered sieve before bottling.
It is worth the trip, believe us!

All the 2007 honey has been sold. We hope to have fresh honey by April. This depends on the weather of course. Right now the bees are eating the honey we left for them and keeping each other warm. They fly when the temperature is above 55¡, it is not raining and it is not too windy.

Peterson's Farm
636 Gossage Ave. Petaluma, CA 94952

707-765-4582

Bee Queen T-shirt

This is Margie Hebert, our daughter, wearing the Bee Queen T-Shirt I made from one of my favorite photos taken of the queen and her court in our observation hive. These shirts are for sale for $16 each plus shipping. Please contact me at Ettamarie@petersonsfarm.com to order one or buy one at the farm when you come.
I am not set up to take credit cards but will be glad to take your check or money order.

To learn more about honey bees and find more recipes
see our grandchildren's and their friend's
Liberty 4-H Bee Web Site

Hector working bees at GAF
The Sonoma County Beekeepers' Association teaches people about beekeeping. This is Hector Alvarez demonstrating opening a hive at the Gravenstein Apple Fair. To learn more about this association see the web site www.sonomabees.org
(This photo was used in Bee Culture Magazine's 2007 calendar as an example of how to crop photos for their next contest.)


Click on honey bee for more farm photos.

If you are interested in buying bees or taking classes about bees, check out my friend Kathy Cox's site . She also has more honey bee information or her site.

If you are interested in tasting and buying lavender honey or buying lavender and lavender products, check out Richard and Joanne Wallenstein's site.


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