November 2017
BEE NEWS
Straight from the Hive!
Elsie’s Finest Honey — the Brand! Elsie’s Finest, the brand name chosen for the first pure honey produced from my apiary in Mundo Nuevo in Matura is the only name that could be used – named after my mother Elsie Deane. Shortly after she passed in 2006, at the age of 93, her niece Angela Pidduck, wrote an article about her which was published on Sunday 19th November in the Newsday. It read in part – “Elsie Deane (nee Day) died just five months after her husband Alva. A very calm woman with a good sense of humor, she raised her five children in a moderate-sized home in Woodbrook. She was a practicing Roman Catholic and had a great sense of family”. She worked tirelessly alongside my father on the estate in Cumana, participating in every part of the process except entering the apiary herself. As my father and I brought the honey-filled frames in, she was always there to receive them and help with extracting the honey, and bottling of the finished product. Even after my father stopped keeping bees, she continued her weekly trips to the estate, ensuring that we were well fed and that the house was in good order. Her happiest times however, were when all her children, Judy, Colin, Neil, Christine and myself were able to come along. These outings brought us together as a family more than anything else. The picture in this article is the same one which hung on our living-room wall for as long as I can remember. This cherished memory of my mother is recalled each time I affix a label to a bottle of Elsie’s Finest Honey. … Gordon Deane
Bee Fact! Queens do not run the show She may hold the title of “Queen” but she does not dictate what happens in the colony, except when it comes time to form a new colony. Similar to worker bees, queen bees are produced to provide a service to the colony, in this case it is to produce eggs, which can be up to 2,000 a day, every day for her two to three year life span. … Dr. Jo-Anne Sewlal
To place an order email us at elsiesfinest@gmail.com