This week I saw butternut squash on the Farmer’s list which is a sign that autumn is coming. So good bye to Summer. It seems like yesterday that I went out to put our bees in our bee hive, when in fact it has been months.

This past weekend I harvested the first of our honey as a group of 30 on our Farm Dinner looked on.

If you have never put on a bee suit and gone out into an Apiary, there is nothing quite like it. To describe the experience would be like explaining what it is like to hike the Grand Canyon by showing you pictures. It is absolutely, in a word, awesome. To have thousands of bees around you in what was an empty hive just months ago, only to turn around and harvest the honey is a true work of nature.

Scraping the honey off with a hot knife and having our guests taste the raw honey was a first that I will never forget and tell the story of thousands of times. To have a group of like minded people to share that experience with me made this Farm Dinner very near and dear to my heart and am grateful to have shared. I truly believe that my purpose in life is to do things like this for people, and this has been why I have done these Farm Dinner Experiences. Chalk it up to another great culinary experience outside of the kitchen.

Thank you to all who came and for those who didn’t get a chance, see the pictures by Christina Noel here: http://bit.ly/cjJVtV