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What we do is tend bees, harvest and pack artisanal honey, make two different kinds of prepared mustard — from scratch, make beeswax candles and run a small business. In the course of doing that, interesting things occur to us about our occupation, things we thought might interest you, and we wanted a place to share them.
In October we welcome family and friends to join us in our season to celebrate football and volleyball and Thanksgiving, the Christmas Holidays – the gifting season.
I see bumblebees foraging among the zinnias, golden rod, and sunflowers that flourish and flower in my yard. Bumblebee’s plump, adorable bodies are dusted with pollen making them look like bright yellow pillows.
Mid-summer and the beat of the cottonwood tree’s leathery leaves – click-clack, clack, clack, click symbolize my place on the planet. I wish you the experience of sitting below a cottonwood tree in July on any day with a breeze.
After a lifetime of career and personal pursuits, I returned to Holdrege, a small town on the Nebraska prairie with a population of under 10,000. I asked what this change meant for me, and began listing subjects I wanted to learn more about. Beekeeping, to my surprise, rose to the top.
I embarked on the adventure in 2006, took a course taught by a University of Nebraska Entomologist, and before I knew it, my apiary was producing 300 lbs of honey every year. That was more honey than I could ever eat or giveaway, so I started thinking, “What if I made a mustard?” With the help of my next-door neighbor, we taste-tested recipe after recipe until we landed on the Buzz Savories Spicy Beer Mustard you know today. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
