I’d like to take you back a few weeks, to when I posted a picture of the beautiful echium crop being grown one field away from us.
Our local farmer is always looking to new crops, and so this is the first time it has been grown in the area. It is grown for its oil, as an alternative to fish oils, and for medical uses.
We were hopeful of a good honey crop, especially as echium is related to borage, which gives a beautifully light and delicate honey.
Well, the honey is every bit as delicious as we had hoped.
Like borage, it is almost transparent in appearance.
The flavour is light and delicate, perhaps even more so than with borage.
It is now for sale here