My Sourwood Tree My youngest son, Dan, is an Urban Forester in Washington, D.C. Last summer, he encouraged me to get a Sourwood tree for my back yard. The city of Washington has a lot of sourwood trees, and he stated that the bees just love the bloom. As a side note, the city also manages city honey bee hives - very impressive!! Dan is not involved in the management of the hives, but maybe I can convince him to volunteer! Anyway, I started a search at local nurseries for

We have bee hives at a friend's (Mike) farm. We discovered this spring that there are Black Locust trees near his farm - much less than three miles away, which is typically all the farther that a bee will fly to get nectar. We recently harvested honey from our apiary at the farm, and are thrilled with the honey - while we can't state that the honey is solely Black Locust honey, we know that a lot of the nectar is from the Black Locust Tree. When we extract, we simply cut of