Grassland honey
Honey is the sweetest thing given to us by nature - almost pure sugar with minerals, enzymes and vitamins, sweeter than dates and figs. We deem the pleasant and joyful things in life to be 'as sweet as honey', but we know this liquid gold is the product of long, hard work - a complex process of cooperation between bees and plants. It takes as many as 100-120 thousand trips for bees to collect one kilo of honey!
Where the bees go, the honey comes from. Honey from linden, buckwheat, wildflowers and heather is a familiar classic in every honey shop. What influences the unique flavour of each honey? The taste and composition varies depends on not only the flowers of origin which also provide honey's health benefits, but the type of soil, the season of harvesting.
That is why honey produced in Latvia's natural meadows is special. It is comparable to wine, whose flavour and uniqueness are determined by the composition of the soil where the grapes grow, or aged cheese, whose character is shaped by the microclimate of the cheese cellar. The diversity of the natural meadow ensures the diversity of the nectar - if a Latvian semi-natural meadow can have more than 50 species per square metre, imagine the composition and flavour of the honey! In addition, the combination of plants in each natural meadow is unique, so each grassland honey has its own "fingerprint" that is unlike any other.
