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<p>By Sarah Haase</p><p><a href="mailto:shaase@www.timesleader.com">shaase@www.timesleader.com</a></p><br><style>
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<div class="neCaption">The Beekeeper&#8217;s Daughter offers a variety of naturally flavored honey. Check out the options every Thursday at the Wilkes-Barre Farmers&#8217; Market. </div></div><div class="neFile"><img src="https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/web1_rainbowhoney.jpg">
<div class="neCaption">The Beekeeper&#8217;s Daughter has a stand at the Wilkes-Barre&#8217;s farmers&#8217; market every Thursday. </div></div></div>
<p>We&#8217;re taking an up-close and personal look at some of the Wilkes-Barre Farmers&#8217; Market vendors and for the inaugural feature, we thought, why not focus on some bees &#8212; and their honey.</p><p>After all, where would any market, or farm, be without the tiny, buzzing creatures?</p><p>That&#8217;s something Hannah Perry Burgess, owner of The Beekeeper&#8217;s Daughter, hopes to never find out.</p><p>&#8220;This is our life,&#8221; Perry Burgess said. &#8220;Our family has been in the business since the 1950s.&#8221;</p><p>Dad, William Perry, is the head beekeeper but brother Robert, plays a hand in caring for those busy bees. Mom, Lisa and Perry Burgess keep things under control on the sales side.</p><p>&#8220;We&#8217;re the ones who run the store,&#8221; Perry Burgess said. &#8220;We do the bottling, retailing and we go to the farmers&#8217; markets.&#8221;</p><p>Perry Burgess has showcased her honey wares at the market for four years. Every Thursday, she&#8217;ll be at Public Square selling all styles, and flavors, of honey.</p><p>Yes, there are styles of honey. There&#8217;s raw honey &#8212; honey in its pure form, Perry Burgess said. It&#8217;s unheated and unpasteurized keeping all the natural vitamins and elements in tact, she said.</p><p>&#8220;It contains some local pollen which is actually really great for you,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It helps to build up your immunity to pollen in the area.&#8221;</p><p>Then there&#8217;s creamed honey.</p><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s honey that has been churned and spun into a creamy consistency,&#8221; Perry Burgess said.</p><p>And The Beekeeper&#8217;s Daughter takes the creamed honey one step further with a little extra flavor.</p><p>&#8220;Our creamed cinnamon is probably our biggest seller,&#8221; Perry Burgess said. &#8220;You can put it into tea but it&#8217;s great for spreading. You can spread it on waffles, bagels, things like that. Creamed cinnamon on French toast is delicious.&#8221;</p><p>This year, the farmers&#8217; market booth features bigger jars of the creamed cinnamon.</p><p>We can&#8217;t forget about the orange blossom honey either and Perry Burgess said this year&#8217;s batch is top notch.</p><p>&#8220;Every year we take our bees to Florida,&#8221; she said of the 4,000 hives the family keeps. &#8220;So our orange blossom honey is one of our biggest sellers.&#8221;</p><p>Maybe not as tasty as honey but still loaded with the healthy benefits is bee pollen, another product available at The Beekeeper&#8217;s Daughter. A dose of the bee pollen is just as, if not more, beneficial as consuming raw honey, Perry Burgess said. It can help build one&#8217;s immunity to local pollen helping alleviate some pesky allergies.</p><p>If you&#8217;re in the market for some locally made honey, stop by the Wilkes-Barre Farmers&#8217; Market and stock up.</p><p>And remember, without the bees, we wouldn&#8217;t have such wonderful produce available at farmer&#8217; markets.</p><br>Reach Sarah Haase at 570-991-6111. Follow her on Twitter at @tlarts.

At the farmers’ market: The Beekeeper’s Daughter