Beekeeping Today Podcast24 Feb 2019

True Source Honey with Eric Wenger - (021)

Eric Wenger is the Chairman of True Source Honey, LLC - an organization created through the efforts of multiple honey companies and honey industry participants who collectively working to provide a way consumers and customers from the problems associated with unlawfully sourced honey 'dumped' on the USA market - specifically Chinese honey. The efforts are designed to help maintain honey's reputation as a high-quality, highly valued food.

Eric is also Director of Quality and Honey Procurement with Barkman Honey, in Hillsboro, KS., and is a member of the National Honey Board, representing handlers.

In this podcast, Eric talks about the origins of True Source Honey, why it was founded and formed. He also talks about the True Source Certification process and how these auditing procedures protects customers and consumers by assuring the honey's origin and source.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

True Source Honey: www.truesourcehoney.com
True Source Certified: http://www.tshmember.com
True Source Certified Standards: http://www.tshmember.com/standards.html

UPDATED: Read Eric's article, "Keeping It Real" on page 47, in the May, 2019 Issue of Bee Culture.

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This podcast (#021) is brought to you by GloryBee. GloryBee is a family owner business serving beekeepers for over 40 years. They believe in providing high quality honey, sweeteners, spices, dried fruits, nuts and other quality ingredients to natural food manufacturers, bakeries and markets. (You've heard of HoneyStix, right! That's GloryBee!).

Checkout everything GloryBee has to offer on their website, and when you talk with them, thank them for sponsoring this episode of Beekeeping Today Podcast!

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We hope you enjoy this podcast and welcome your questions and comments: questions@beekeepingtodaypodcast.com

Thanks to Bee Culture, the Magazine of American Beekeeping, for their support of The Beekeeping Today Podcast. Available in print and digital at www.beeculture.com

Thank you for listening!

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