“The last three batches we’ve got from there, pulled from our hives, have this burnt, buttery flavor,” Monica Johnson said with a smile. “I’m like a wine connoisseur; it’s pretty neat.” After each removal, she gives the homeowner a container filled with honey and comb. “On one of my very first removals with Bill, I got pink honey. All the flowers were red in the area, and you could just see the pink- red-orangish of the pollen packed into the honeycomb.”
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The Mattsons of Mattson’s Good Bees in Rancho El Dorado also collect honey and combs from their hives, but more casually. They produce about 64 ounces weekly during the summer months. “Our mission is to save the bees, and if we can get honey out of it, then that’s great,” Angela Mattson said. “We don’t sell a ton of honey, but what we do is mainly family, friends, and then I put it online.” Today, Liza Williams makes ChapStick with the beeswax. She plans to expand to candles, lavender honey-infused soaps with goat’s milk, and pies. “They give a lot of natural sweeteners to everything else that we’re planning on doing as far as baking and stuff like that,” Will Williams said. “Lemonade is on a whole other level with honey in it,” his wife added. The Williams couple is actively working to make Teva Farm Maricopa’s version of Queen Creek’s Schnepf Farms or Gilbert’s Vertuccio Farms. They say their beehives will likely become an important part of creating their lavender-themed attraction. “We raised our kids going to pumpkin patches,” Will Williams said. “We would love to bring that to the community of Maricopa through lavender and being able to relax and do different things. “We’ll have the hives available for people to harvest their own honey.” If there’s one message all the beekeeping couples wanted locals to know about the buzzy little bugs with which they’re all obsessed, it’s this: Call a beekeeper, not an exterminator.
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