#pleasant southeastern wisconsin

[tomorrowusa]

Texas is still suffering from power outages triggered by Hurricane Beryl which dissipated a week ago.

More than a week after Hurricane Beryl swept through Texas and left millions without power, nearly 60,000 people in the state still do not have electricity. The issue is more than an inconvenience, as many in the state have faced a deadly days-long heat wave that claimed its latest victim on Tuesday. Local news reported that a woman was found dead in her apartment after spending the last eight days in her home without electricity and air conditioning. The heat index in Houston had climbed to 110F (43F) the day her body was discovered. With the power issue lingering and more than a dozen deaths now linked to the heat, frustrations in Houston have started to boil over - particularly as the forecasts for the coming days warn of high temperatures. Armed residents living without electricity have reportedly harrassed and threatened workers from CenterPoint Energy, the local energy provider, who have been sent out to restore power. Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued a statement saying that CentrePoint Energy "has lost the faith and trust of Texans". He issued a July 31 deadline for the company to respond to questions about what went wrong and what can be done to mitigate hurricane damage to the electric grid.

Climate-denying Republican Gov. Greg Abbott followed that Texas GOP tradition of leaving the state whenever climate causes a disaster leading to misery and death for residents. We remember Sen. Ted Cruz heading to Cancún when a winter storm caused the state's separate power grid to collapse.

Gov. Abbott went to Milwaukee to attend the GOP convention to brag about himself sending busloads of migrants to Chicago.

Gov. Abbott says Texas will continue busing migrants to Chicago during RNC speech

Those migrants are being sent north with taxpayer money in air conditioned buses while Abbott's Texas constituents are dropping dead from the heat.

Abbott himself was enjoying the moderate climate of the Upper Midwest where the high temperature in Milwaukee on Thursday is expected to be a refreshing 75° F/24° C. No place in southeastern Wisconsin will even make it to 80° today.

Abbott and other MAGA Republicans will be celebrating the climate policies of the Orange Dear Leader whose election would guarantee even more climate disasters for the Lone Star State.

Trump asks Big Oil for $1B in campaign cash

^^^ just sayin'

[mariacallous]

In June 2018, U.S. President Donald Trump visited Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, around 30 miles south of Milwaukee. Flanked by Republican Gov. Scott Walker, the president broke ground on a site designated for a $10 billion factory campus for Foxconn, the Taiwanese electronics manufacturing giant. “America is open for business more than it has ever been,” Trump said, adding that the factory would be the “eighth wonder of the world.”

The facility, which would produce liquid crystal displays—or LCDs—for television screens, promised to create as many as 13,000 jobs for the area. It would receive $3 billion in tax subsidies from the state, plus local incentives that put the total package at nearly $4.8 billion—the biggest corporate subsidy in Wisconsin’s history and the largest U.S. public subsidy offered to a foreign company to date.

The deal was emblematic of Trump’s trade and economic policy. He has campaigned on tearing up trade deals and pushing U.S. and foreign companies to build factories in the United States. But Foxconn’s plans never quite materialized. When U.S. President Joe Biden took office, he laid a new path to bring manufacturing back to southeastern Wisconsin. Both administrations have sought to curb China’s economic rise through protectionist policies, marking a profound change from the free trade ideology that long dominated Washington. Now Trump and his new opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, have descended on the state to make the case for their approach.

Racine County, where Mount Pleasant is located, is often called an electoral bellwether: The candidate who won the county has carried Wisconsin in every presidential election since 1980 with two exceptions, 1988 and 2020, the latter when 51 percent of voters in Racine County went for Trump but Biden won the state. This year, the key to Wisconsin seems to be a winning plan for the economy, which the state’s voters see as the most important issue. Wisconsin has the second-highest concentration of manufacturing employment in the country, and manufacturing has become a centerpiece of both candidates’ economic policy.

Trump is doubling down on his America First trade policies, proposing a significant escalation of tariffs across the board, especially against China, and easing regulations to encourage domestic manufacturing. Harris’s trade policies are less clear. She has criticized Trump’s sweeping tariffs as a “sales tax” on U.S. households, but she is expected to continue the targeted tariffs that Biden embraced. Harris is also likely to carry on Biden’s commitment to industrial policy: Last month, she outlined a $100 billion tax credit plan for key manufacturing sectors.

Voters in southeastern Wisconsin have seen the effects of these policy visions firsthand; now, they will have the chance to weigh in on which party got it right.

The Foxconn deal at first seemed like a masterstroke for Republicans. The company was regarded as a titan—known for manufacturing iPhones—and many people in the region were eager to hear Trump’s pledge to restore U.S. industrial might. But cracks soon emerged. In 2019, a Foxconn executive told Reuters that it was reconsidering its plans for the site. The company recommitted after pressure from Trump, but it missed its hiring targets, and years after the initial construction, reports found that much of the campus often went unused. (Foxconn has disputed these claims.)

Walker lost his 2018 reelection campaign to Democrat Tony Evers, who sought to renegotiate Foxconn’s incentive package once in office. Meanwhile, homes had been bulldozed, and Mount Pleasant was left with a substantial debt burden. Some of the deal’s skeptics felt vindicated. “It was all about politics,” former state Rep. Gordon Hintz, a Democrat, told the Washington Post last year. “You had a swing state President Trump needed to win. … For Foxconn, it was always about evading tariffs.”

Last year, there was another surge of investment in the region. The U.S. Commerce Department designated southeastern Wisconsin as one of 31 inaugural Tech Hubs under the CHIPS and Science Act. Microsoft bought land from Foxconn in Mount Pleasant and broke ground on an artificial intelligence data center. In May, Biden visited the nearby city of Racine when Microsoft announced an expanded $3.3 billion investment estimated to create as many as 2,000 permanent jobs. It was a promise made in the shadow of a bigger, broken one—but Biden vowed to keep it, and voters likely expect Harris to carry the torch.

Kelly Gallaher, the chair of the Racine County Democratic Party, is a longtime citizen activist who was an early critic of the Foxconn deal—as well as its champion, Mount Pleasant Village President David DeGroot, now a Republican candidate for the Wisconsin State Assembly. As new investment comes to the region and politicians court Wisconsin voters, she thinks that Foxconn’s ghost is still in the room. “There’s a lot of other issues at stake, but in Wisconsin, I’m never going to rule out that Foxconn isn’t also on people’s minds,” she said. “We’re constantly reminded of how it didn’t work out.”

Robert Kraig, the executive director of Citizen Action of Wisconsin, a progressive advocacy group, said Foxconn has become a “dirty word” to the group’s most active members. Kraig has found that people react unfavorably when other major projects—such as the $545 million in public funds approved by the Evers administration for renovations at the Milwaukee Brewers baseball stadium—are likened to the Foxconn deal. The disappointment with Foxconn seeded doubt about any candidate’s promises of economic development in the region, he said.

Others in the state are skeptical that the Foxconn deal still shapes voter sentiment. Brian Schimming, the chair of Wisconsin’s Republican Party and a former Walker administration official, said he thinks that most people understand the good intentions behind the deal. “We get very little flack about it,” he said, noting that though Walker and Trump are no longer in office, local politicians involved in the deal were reelected.

Meanwhile, Microsoft’s projects in southeastern Wisconsin have been galvanizing—but both Democrats and Republicans are taking credit for them. Biden’s May visit was meant to showcase his administration’s successful approach to industrial policy. Microsoft President Brad Smith attributed the expanded investment in part to the Inflation Reduction Act and the CHIPS and Science Act. Evers called it a “watershed moment for Wisconsin.”

Republican politicians, meanwhile, see Evers and Biden as undeserving of the praise and seeking only to curry favor among voters. Rep. Bryan Steil, who succeeded former U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan in his Wisconsin seat, said in May that Biden “is looking for any opportunity to come [to Wisconsin], and he’s more than willing to come and take credit for things that he was not involved in and didn’t do.”

Foxconn supporters, many of whom made great efforts to distance themselves from the fallout of the deal, are also quick to claim victory for the Microsoft investment. They argue that without Foxconn and its corresponding infrastructure investments in the region, there would be no Microsoft deal. When he announced his State Assembly campaign this year, DeGroot highlighted his track record of attracting “numerous businesses like Microsoft,” notably omitting Foxconn.

“Everyone I’ve talked to in Kenosha County and Racine County is fired up about the Microsoft thing,” Schimming said. He suggested that the deal could expand further, though he did not provide specific details; Microsoft declined to comment. Although hopes are high, many locals and officials in Wisconsin acknowledge that the Microsoft deal bears some resemblance to the initial promises made by Foxconn. A major high-tech company again aims to build in the swing state ahead of an important election, promising big money and a lot of jobs.

But Democrats emphasize that this deal is different in key ways. The investment is more reasonably sized and comes from a domestic company with a better reputation, they say. Whereas Foxconn’s LCDs soon became obsolete in a fast-moving market, many experts see AI as a key industry for the future. And Foxconn had a history of overpromising elsewhere in the world, but Microsoft doesn’t have that baggage.

Wisconsin’s Democratic Party chair Ben Wikler added that the Microsoft deal is already more tangible than its predecessor. “The shovels are actually in the ground—and not just in the symbolic way,” he said. “The jobs are already here. You talk to the folks who build things in Wisconsin, they will say that there’s a list of projects that are looking for workers.”

Such job creation could come with other costs. The Foxconn deal drew criticism over its environmental record, but AI data centers have their own problems, starting with energy consumption. In May, electricity provider We Energies asked state utility regulators for permission to bill customers for $2 billion in natural gas investments due to increased energy demand, a move that environmentalists say will push the state’s climate goals out of reach. Some locals are also skeptical of Microsoft’s promises—wary that there are no legal requirements for the company to meet its original projections.

On Nov. 5, the presidential race will be the biggest draw for voters in southeastern Wisconsin, but there is plenty at stake down the ballot. A lively race is underway in the state’s 1st Congressional District, where Mount Pleasant is located, between incumbent Republican Bryan Steil and Democrat Peter Barca, who most recently served as Wisconsin’s revenue secretary. Barca received criticism within his party for effectively greenlighting the Foxconn deal as State Assembly minority leader, but he has a bigger legislative legacy than Foxconn alone. Although Steil has the lead in polls, Wikler—the state Democratic Party chair—called it the “best opportunity we’ve had to flip that district in a very long time.”

Harris and Trump have each come to Wisconsin in recent weeks. On Oct. 1, Trump visited a manufacturing plant in Waunakee, where he rallied around tariffs and flirted once again with the logic of incentivizing foreign companies with public funds to build factories in the United States. A few days later, at a rally in Ripon, which is considered the birthplace of the Republican Party, Harris spoke at length about the constitutional oath, casting herself as someone who upholds its promise and Trump as someone who violates it.

In Mount Pleasant, it remains to be seen which promises voters believe. “Microsoft is a big help, and we appreciate that, but we are very much still living with the failure of Foxconn, and we’re never going to get those 13,000 jobs,” Gallaher said. “And that is a shame. We would do ourselves a favor not to forget it too quickly.”

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Rittenhouse judge bars evidence connecting teen to Proud Boys during trial

Kyle Rittenhouse’s jury will not hear about his alleged ties to a far-right group or be shown a photo of him flashing a hand sign appropriated by some white supremacist groups when his murder case goes to trial later this year, a Kenosha County judge ruled Friday.

Circuit Judge Bruce Schroeder also barred prosecutors from playing a video in which Rittenhouse punched a girl and another in which the Antioch teen said he wished he had his assault rifle with him so he could shoot at people he believed were shoplifting from a drugstore.

Both videos were taken in the weeks before Rittenhouse, then 17, killed two men and wounded a third with an AR-15-style rifle. Despite not being old enough to openly carry a gun, Rittenhouse took it upon himself to patrol the southeastern Wisconsin town amid the turmoil surrounding the shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, by a white police officer in August 2020.

The rulings dealt a setback to prosecutors’ efforts to portray Rittenhouse as a “chaos tourist” who came to Kenosha to impose his own sense of justice.

“This is not a political trial,” Schroeder said. “This is not going to be a political trial.”

Defense attorneys argue Rittenhouse acted in self-defense that night after being chased by Joseph Rosenbaum, the first man he fatally shot. Without offering any evidence, they told Schroeder that Rosenbaum — a convicted sex offender who had recently been institutionalized — had been chasing Rittenhouse because he couldn’t purchase his own gun with a criminal record and wanted to steal the teen’s assault rifle.

Kyle Rittenhouse flashed a hand sign appropriated by some white supremacist groups and was “loudly serenaded” with a song reportedly adopted by the far-right group the Proud Boys as the 18-year-old drank at a Wisconsin bar last week, prosecutors said in a court filing Wednesday.

Kenosha County prosecutors asked a judge to modify the rules Rittenhouse has to follow while he’s free on $2 million bail as he awaits trial on murder and other charges for shooting three men, two of them fatally, with an AR-15-style rifle during chaotic protests Aug. 25.

The motion asks a judge to ban Rittenhouse from “publicly displaying symbols and gestures that are associated with violent white supremacist groups and from associating with known members of those groups, particularly the Proud Boys.” In support of the request, prosecutors filed several images from bar surveillance cameras showing Rittenhouse flashing the “OK” sign.

Prosecutors also asked a judge to ban Rittenhouse from drinking or going to bars while he’s free.

The motion notes that Rittenhouse went to a bar in Mount Pleasant with his mother, Wendy Rittenhouse. Wisconsin law allows people 18 and over to drink with their parents in taverns. Still, prosecutors asked a judge to ban Rittenhouse from drinking, noting that he recently turned 18 and faces a murder charge.

“The consumption of alcohol increases the likelihood of violent criminal acts,” prosecutors wrote.

[kenyatta]

In 2017, President Donald Trump and the Wisconsin GOP struck a deal with Foxconn that promised to turn Southeastern Wisconsin into a tech manufacturing powerhouse. In exchange for billions in tax subsidies, Foxconn was supposed to build an enormous LCD factory in the tiny village of Mount Pleasant, creating 13,000 jobs. Three years later, the factory — and the jobs — don’t exist, and they probably never will.

[...]

Interviews with 19 employees and dozens of others involved with the project, as well as thousands of pages of public documents, reveal a project that has defaulted on almost every promise. The building Foxconn calls an LCD factory — about 1/20th the size of the original plan — is little more than an empty shell. In September, Foxconn received a permit to change its intended use from manufacturing to storage.

[...]

It was just the beginning. Foxconn would spend the next two years jumping from idea to idea — fish farms, exporting ice cream, storing boats — in an increasingly surreal search for some way to generate money from a doomed project. Frequent leadership changes, a reluctance to spend money, and a domineering corporate culture would create an atmosphere employees described as toxic. Many of the employees The Verge spoke with have since left the company, and all of them requested anonymity out of fear of retaliation. It has been a baffling ordeal for the people who thought they were building the Silicon Valley of the Midwest — “Wisconn Valley,” Walker called it — all the more so because so many others still believe the vision.

[rjzimmerman]

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The Lake County Board joined a growing chorus of Illinois officials objecting to the potential environmental impacts of the Foxconn manufacturing plant in Kenosha County that will be built in the headwaters of the Des Plaines River.

The board unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday calling for the state of Wisconsin to reconsider the waiving of environmental regulations when providing various incentives for the Taiwan-based maker of liquid-crystal displays, such as those used in some flat-screen TVs, as well as other electronics.

The company announced plans last year to build a $10 billion display panel factory and campus in Mount Pleasant, west of Racine, which could employ up to 13,000 workers.

“The Lake County Board is unanimous in our strong opposition to U.S. EPA and state of Wisconsin actions creating a separate set of pollution standards for Foxconn’s five county area, which will compromise the environmental integrity and resiliency of natural resources to the detriment of Lake County families, businesses and taxpayers,” Chairman Aaron Lawlor said in a statement.

“The proposal calls for filling of 26 acres of wetlands with dredged materials,” Lawlor added. “I don’t need a big, expensive study to know that is a very bad idea, and we need the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers involved immediately.”

Lawlor noted Tuesday that air and water pollution doesn’t conform to political boundaries, and federal and state decisions to reduce air pollution standards in five southeastern Wisconsin counties — along with decisions to allow special regulatory treatment and diversion of Lake Michigan water — will impact air quality, increase flooding, and cause other ecological impacts from this development.

“I think it’s an important statement,” Lawlor said at the board meeting Tuesday.

[newsupdated]

Kyle Rittenhouse, out on bail, flashed white power signs in photos at bar: prosecutors

Kyle Rittenhouse, out on bail, flashed white power signs in photos at bar: prosecutors

Prosecutors in Wisconsin have asked a judge to order Kyle Rittenhouse, charged with killing two people and wounding a third in a violent protest over a police shooting, to stay out of bars and away from white supremacist groups. The request comes a week after the Illinois 18-year-old was seen drinking at a bar in the southeastern Wisconsin city of Mount Pleasant, about 25 miles south of…

[katslefty]

"In 2017, President Donald Trump and the Wisconsin GOP struck a deal with Foxconn that promised to turn Southeastern Wisconsin into a tech manufacturing powerhouse.

"In exchange for billions in tax subsidies, Foxconn was supposed to build an enormous LCD factory in the tiny village of Mount Pleasant, creating 13,000 jobs.

"Three years later, the factory — and the jobs — don’t exist, and they probably never will. Inside the empty promises and empty buildings of Wisconn Valley."

[garudabluffs]

Inside the Fake Tech Plant Trump Sold Wisconsin

October 19, 2020 “In 2017, President Donald Trump and the Wisconsin GOP struck a deal with Foxconn that promised to turn Southeastern Wisconsin into a tech manufacturing powerhouse.”“In exchange for billions in tax subsidies, Foxconn was supposed to build an enormous LCD factory in the tiny village of Mount Pleasant, creating 13,000 jobs.”“Three years later, the factory — and the jobs — don’t exist, and they probably never will.”

READ MORE https://politicalwire.com/2020/10/19/inside-the-fake-tech-plant-trump-sold-wisconsin/#disqus_thread

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“_in the summer of 2018...In June, President Donald Trump had broken ground on an LCD factory he called “the eighth wonder of the world.”

READ MORE https://www.theverge.com/21507966/foxconn-empty-factories-wisconsin-jobs-loophole-trump?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Basically, it’s a fake factory. The building is there, but nothing is being made.

READ MORE https://gizmodo.com/apparently-foxconns-wisconsin-lcd-factory-is-fake-1845445416

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Republicans got “job-creator” talking points. And taxpayers are getting screwed. That’s really about it.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/lake-county-news-sun/ct-lns-foxconn-investment-fact-check-st-0202-20190201-story.html

[pscottm]

“In 2017, President Donald Trump and the Wisconsin GOP struck a deal with Foxconn that promised to turn Southeastern Wisconsin into a tech manufacturing powerhouse.”

“In exchange for billions in tax subsidies, Foxconn was supposed to build an enormous LCD factory in the tiny village of Mount Pleasant, creating 13,000 jobs.”

“Three years later, the factory — and the jobs — don’t exist, and they probably never will.”

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MONOFLORAL HONEY

Acacia Honey

Acacia honey is a pale, liquid glass-like honey produced by bees that feed on Acacia flowers. It contains vitamins A, C, and E, flavonoids, and essential fatty and amino acids.

Acacia honey has hepatoprotective (liver) and nephroprotective (kidney) effects. Oral and topical administration of acacia has shown tissue proliferative and vulnerary (wound healing) properties. Studies also demonstrate effective healing properties of acacia honey in corneal (eye) injuries.

This honey variant possesses anti-inflammatory, anticancer, DNA protective, and antioxidant properties too.

A light and clear honey prepared from floral nectars of Robinia pseudoacacia, also known as Black Locust in North America and Europe. It’s one of the sweetest in honey varieties because of its mild delicate floral taste & high concentration of fructose. Acacia honey’s low sucrose content makes it a great choice for diabetics. It also cleanses the liver, regulates intestine, and is anti-inflammatory for the respiratory system.

Alfalfa Honey (Medicago sativa)

Alfalfa Honey has a mild floral aroma and a fine delicate flavor. As you might expect, alfalfa honey has a light grassy, but pleasant flavor. You might even catch a subtle vanilla flavor, but not as strong as in meadowfoam honey.

Alfalfa honey, produced extensively throughout Canada and the United States from the purple or blue blossoms, is light in color with a subtle spicy profile and mildly scented floral aroma. Its delicate nature doesn't overpower other flavors, making it a favourite choice for chefs for their baked foods and a fine table honey for tea lovers. Not as sweet as most honey types, it is a preferred choice for combining with other ingredients or enjoying straight from the jar.

Coming from the alfalfa (Medicago sativa) flowers, alfalfa or lucerne honey is famous for its prebiotic effects.

It has fructooligosaccharides that promote intestinal bacteria and improve digestion. Having alfalfa honey regularly can treat anemia, diabetes, and fever (antipyretic agent).

This rare honey has distinct sweet-smelling, full-bodied floral varietal. Aster honey is mainly abundant in the Mid-South United States. It is light-colored, prone to crystallize quickly, relatively thick and smooth in consistency, this aromatic honey is favorite for eating like candy.

Aster Honey

Solidago, commonly called goldenrods, is a genus of about 100to 120 species of flowering plants in the aster family, Asteraceae. Most are herbaceous perennial species found in open areas such as meadows, prairies, and savannas. They are mostly native to North America, including Mexico; a few species are native to South America and Eurasia. Some American species have also been introduced into Europe and other parts of the world.

Avocado Honey (Perseaamericana Mill.)

Plant origin, physicochemical parameters and composition were analysed to characterize the avocado honey (Perseaamericana Mill.) from Andalusia (Southern, Spain). Ashes content, total polyphenol, and electrical conductivity corresponded to these of a typical dark honey (>80 mm scale Pfund). Regarding mineral elements, K was predominant, followed by P and Mg. Antioxidant and invertase activities presented some desirable values. In the 20 analysed samples, 48 pollen types corresponding to 33 families were identified. Avocado pollen was found in high variability (13-58%). At least a 20% was suggested to guarantee the authentic avocado honey. Perseitol, sugar-alcohol identified only in avocado honey, fundamentally contributes to distinguish this kind of honey. The content varied between 0.31 and 1.56 g/100 g. The correlation between perseitol and avocado pollen was found to be significant. A minimum concentration of 0.30 g/100 g of perseitol is suggested to characterize the proposed monofloral avocado honey.

A misnomer, Avocado honey doesn’t taste like the fruit, avocado. This monofloral honey is produced mainly from California avocado blossoms originated in Southern Mexico, Central America, Australia, and several tropical regions. It’s having a dark color and fairly rich buttery flavor.

Basswood Honey (Tilia Americana)

For thousands of years linden honey was the most appreciated honey. The scent of the tiny yellow-white flowers of those huge trees that blossom in late spring or early summer, have always attracted humans as well as bees.

It is called basswood in America, lime in UK, and linden in Europe and Asia. (Though it is called “lime” it is not closely related to the lime fruit). But no matter the name, it belongs to the tilia genus, which has 30 species of trees, native throughout most of our Northern Hemisphere. The greatest species diversity is found in Asia.

The tree is reaching 20 to 40 meters (66 to 130 ft) tall, with oblique cordate leaves of 6 to 20 centimeters (2 to 8 in) across. The trees are hermaphroditic, having perfect flowers with both male and female parts, pollinated by insects.

It’s one of the few exceptional honey varieties having a light color, strong biting flavor, and a distinctive lingering flavor. This natural honey is produced from the cream-colored Basswood blossoms found in North America leaving fresh, pleasant \"woody\" scent that’s good with teas like Earl Grey and works well for salad dressings and marinades.

Beechwood Honey

It's a honeydew honey made from the honeydew secreted by 2 insects: Ultracoelostomaassimile and U. brittini, after feeding themselves from the sap of black beech (Nothofagussolandri) and red beech (Nothofagusfusca).

Popularly known as Honeydew honey, mainly produced in New Zealand\'s South Island. Its extraordinary aroma comes from the sap produced by aphids on the bark of beechwood trees giving distinct stature in honey index. Beechwood honey is fondly mixed into smoothies, sauces, pancakes and fruits like a sweet drizzle. This honey is a good supplement for improving the body\'s immunity and digestive system.

Blue Gum Honey

Eucalyptus globulus, commonly known as southern blue gum, is a species of tall, evergreen tree endemic to southeastern Australia. It has mostly smooth bark, juvenile leaves that are whitish and waxy on the lower surface, glossy green, lance-shaped adult leaves, glaucous, ribbed flower buds arranged singly or in groups of three or seven in leaf axils, white flowers and woody fruit. There are four subspecies, each with a different distibution, occurring in New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania.

A eucalyptus honey specie, mainly found in South Australia and Tasmania, bestowing amber color and dense texture to honey. It gives a mouthwatering taste when consumed with toast and wafers in breakfast or ice-cream drizzle in dinners. Blue Gum honey is one of world best honey varieties enduring subtle cool, minty undertone like blue bubble gum kids love to chew.

Blueberry Honey (Cyanococcus Honey)

Produced in New England and in Michigan, Blueberry honey is taken from the tiny white flowers of the blueberry bush. It is typically light amber in color, has a pleasant flavor, a slight tang, and a blueberry aftertaste. A good table honey.

Widely used as table honey, this variation of bee honey is produced majorly in New England and Michigan. It’s originated from tiny white flowers of the blueberry bush, giving a light amber color, pleasant flavor with a slight tang, and aroma of blueberries.

Buckwheat Honey (Fagopyrum esculentum)

Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum), or common buckwheat, is a plant cultivated for its grain-like seeds and as a cover crop. A related and bitterer species, Fagopyrum tataricum, is a domesticated food plant raised in Asia. Despite the name, buckwheat is not related to wheat, as it is not a grass. Instead, buckwheat is related to sorrel, knotweed, and rhubarb. Buckwheat is referred to as a pseudocereal because its seeds' culinary use is the same as cereals', owing to their composition of complex carbohydrates.

A study on buckwheat honey claimed that serum antioxidant capacity increased by 7%. Honey from buckwheat (especially Fagopyrum esculentum) has high bactericidal properties. Buckwheat honey variants from Canada can kill multi-drug resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and other notorious pathogens. Due to its antioxidant properties and an abundance of micro- and macronutrients, buckwheat honey can protect your body and DNA from chemical or oxidative stress – better than manuka honey.

This variation of USA Honey is mainly produced in New York, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and parts of eastern Canada. It's dark-colored, full-bodied, rich in iron and highly-antioxidant unlike lighter honey- key reason for being popular with honey lovers. Buckwheat honey has been found to contain more antioxidant compounds than some lighter honeys making it the strongest of honey varieties.

Clover Honey (Trifolium)

Clover honey is honey that has been harvested from bees that have gathered nectar from a majority of clover. Clover honey varies in color from very white to extra light amber and has a mild, delicate flavor. Most honeys sold in the supermarket are clover honey.

Clover (from Trifolium species) honey is one of the safest dietary antibacterial agents you can get.

Unlike manuka, this honey doesn’t have methylglyoxal and doesn’t need hydrogen peroxide for its antibacterial effect. It is, hence, not a broad-spectrum antimicrobial agent.

Clover honey has unique phenolic compounds, along with the bee-derived antimicrobial peptides. These could be responsible for the specific antioxidant and antimicrobial activity against Pseudomonas, Bacillus, Staphylococcus species.

Clover Honey originates from Canada and New Zealand, one of the most popular honey varieties and widely available honey varieties. This form of white honey is a favorite varietal of many honey lovers having a pleasingly mild, floral sweetness with a surprising hint of sour aftertaste making it perfect ingredient for light sauces, salad dressings and baking!

Dandelion Honey (Taraxacum)

The Dandelion has traditionally been a nutritious source of food and a natural remedy for a wide variety of ills. Ironically it has been relegated to the status of a weed and is the focus of thousands of home owners’ annual lawn care struggle. Fortunately, while we may have forgotten how to use them, bees have not, and dandelion honey is the delicious consequence. However as a single flower (monofloral) honey, dandelion is rare, as it competes with other nectar producing plants growing at the height of the flowering season from April to May and beekeepers often leave this honey produced early in the season as food for the bees themselves to strengthen their hive in preparation for subsequent types of blossoms. On the other hand, because of the strength of its flavor, a pollen count as low as 5% is sufficient to be considered monofloral and can range from 5% to 65%. Its high glucose content causes it to crystallizes quickly and for this reason it can also be difficult to harvest.

Eucalyptus Honey (Eucalyptus globulus)

Eucalyptus honey is a type of honey made by honeybees that forage on eucalyptus. It is common in Australia, in Western Cape in South Africa, and in Brazil. Monofloral eucalypt honeys include Jarrah, Yellow Box, Grey box, Blue Gum, River Red Gum, Ironbark, Stringybark and Messmate.

Eucalyptus honey varies greatly in color and flavor, but in general, it tends to be a bold-flavored honey with a slightly medicinal aftertaste. It may be used in baked goods, sauces, dressings. (Tasmanian Leatherwood honey is considered a delicacy, but is not a eucalypt honey) The color is light amber to medium-dark red.

Unifloral honey derived from the flowers of eucalyptus (Eucalyptus rostrata) has luteolin, kaempferol, quercetin, myricetin, and ellagic acid. This honey acts as a powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory agent. Eucalyptus honey has sodium, potassium, manganese, magnesium, iron, copper, and zinc.

Eucalyptus honey originates from Australia but produced majorly in California. This polyfloral honey variant arrives from a larger plant genera, containing more than 500 distinct species and many hybrids. It may vary in color and flavor but tends to have a special herbal flavor and used by people as a protection against colds and headaches.

Fireweed Honey (Chamaenerionangustifolium)

Fireweed honey is the result of bees harvesting the nectar from the beautiful pink flowers of fireweed plants that grow across the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, and Canada. Fireweed gets its name because its seeds lay dormant in the soil for long periods of time until the land is burned by wildfire. This elusive fireweed honey is a rare treasure gathered by honeybees in the rugged mountains of British Columbia. It is white in colour with a smooth floral flavour and a distinct buttery finish. Fireweed honey is considered the champagne of all honeys because it is perfect with everything.

One of the world’s most expensive honey, Fireweed originates from a tall perennial herb grown in the open woods of North West US. Its light in color, sweet and complex at the same time with extraordinary smooth and buttery taste ideal for gourmet cooking, baking, glazing, BBQ grilling, meat & fish smoking.

Hawthorn Honey (Crataegusmonogyna)

Hawthorn essentially describes the large genus of shrubs that fit within the rose family. Many of these species are native to north America and are often grown for ornamentally for their bright white and pink flowers, and small red apple-like fruits. Hawthorn is full to the brim with potent anti-inflammatory and antioxidant compounds, hence it has traditionally been used as a herbal remedy for the treatment of cardiovascular disease, while also offering a means of reducing high blood pressure. While hawthorn is for the most part an invasive species of plant, its honey is notoriously difficult to obtain. This is thought to be due to the fact that it only produces a small amount of nectar (much less than many other species that bloom at the same time of year), thus making it somewhat less appealing to bees. As a result, this honey is highly sought after. This particular honey has a rich amber colour, often with a slight green tint. It has a delicate floral aroma, and an extremely rich taste profile that is often associated with a delightful nutty aftertaste. Due to the potent health boosting properties of hawthorn, this honey is thought to boost cell function while simultaneously enhancing cardiovascular and metabolic health.

Heather Honey (Calluna vulgaris)

Ling Heather honey is reddish/orange to dark amber. It has a slightly bitter, tangy, pungent, smoky, mildly sweet taste that persists for a long time. It has a strong distinctive woody, warm, floral, fresh fruit aroma reminiscent of heather flowers. There are two distinct types of single flower heather honey. One is from a single species, Ling Heather (Calluna vulgaris), a true heather, and the other type is from any of the Erica species. Both the C. vulgaris and all the Erica species belong to the Ericaceae family, but of the two types, Ling Heather honey is considered true “Heather Honey,” and it is quite different from Erica honey of the Erica species. It is often called Scotch, Summer or Autumn Heather to distinguish it from other Erica species. It is a low growing evergreen native of Europe with a liking for dry acidic soils. Ling Heather is considered a symbol of Scotland and is one of the national flowers of Norway.

It’s thick and amber in color with pungent flavors. Heather Honey is fragrant and floral with a lingering aftertaste. It’s commonly served with ham, chicken, lamb, seafood, cold dishes and strong black coffee. Due to its medicinal properties- extremely high protein content its preferable for honey supplements.

Ironbark Honey (Eucalyptus Paniculate)

Melita Iron Bark Honey is the perfect drizzler. It has attractive amber and orange flashes and a perfume reminiscent of almonds and coconut. Melita Iron Bark honey is delicious drizzled over dainty crepes, which can be filled with a combination of honey, cream cheese and raisins.

Ironbark is a highly favored, premium Eucalyptus floral which blossoms throughout the year in eastern Australia. Dense and Amber color makes this honey “favorite flavor enhancer in baking, barbecued meats and nutty addition to a smoothie.

Jarrah Honey (Eucalyptus Marginata)

Jarrah Honey Is the New Superfood from Australia You Need to Know. ... Enter jarrah honey. Harvested from the jarrah tree, it is rarer and more costly to produce than manuka because it comes from a species of tree endemic only to the most pristine, remote stretches of Western Australia.

West Australian Jarrah tree (Eucalyptus marginata) is a large forest tree usually found in the Jarrah forest, which extends from Gingin, north of Perth to as far south as Albany. The main commercial nectar flows are in the Darling Range. Jarrah trees are unique to Western Australia.

The Jarrah tree is a magnificent tall timber tree that can grow up to 40 metres in height. It is a slow growing Eucalyptus tree that can live up to 1000 years. It has with a brown fissured bark that can withstand intense forest fires and a large green canopy.

Kamahi Honey (Weinmannia racemose)

Kamahi is a common native tree with stunning white bottle-brush flowers grown on the rugged west coast of the Southern Alps in New Zealand. A favourite with chefs, Deep Blue Health Kamahi honey is a light amber colour with a rich, complex full-bodied taste. Produced and harvested from both the North and South Island, but mostly from the West Coast of the South Island from Kamahi Trees sitting 25 metres high in the canopies of our beautiful forests.

You will find Kamahi honey mostly creamed due to its above average tendency to crystallise.

Leatherwood Honey (Eucryphia Lucida)

Leatherwood honey is, as its name suggests the honey that bees produce from the nectar of the Leatherwood(Eucryphia lucida) plants' flower. The Leatherwood plant is endemic to Tasmania and is found in the wetter forest regions throughout the Western portion of the state. Leatherwood is the single most important nectar plant in Tasmania accounting for about 70% of all honey produced. Other sources of nectar include clover(in pasture), Eucalyptus blossoms and Blackberry. The variety of plants available to bees in nectar foraging may be used as a supplement to the Leatherwood plant in times of poor flowering or in parts of the season when Leatherwood does not flower, this is a preferable diet to feeding the bees sugar. Pure(unblended) varietal honey(such as Leatherwood) is analagous to single malt scotch whisky, even though flavours may vary from one season to the next and from batch to batch the flavour and character of the unblended product is superior enough to fetch a premium price. Unblended Leatherwood honey has a unique taste and smell which is quite different from that of blended honey and to many people consider it an acquired taste, some people swear by it others swear about it.

Leatherwood honey arrives from leatherwood blossom -- a eucalypt found in the south-west of Tasmania & Australia. It’s established worldwide as a distinct honey iherb with a unique taste and strong floral flavor. It makes an excellent spread on wheat toast, cakes, muffins, coffee and tea.

Linden Honey (Tiliachinensis)

Linden honey is one varieties that will completely change the misconception of those who think that honey is no more than just sugared water. Linden honey originates from the linden-woods that stretch across the slopes of Mountains in Western Ukraine, also known as Lime or Basswood.

Obtained from the blossoms of Linden or Basswood trees of several species of Tilia; it is known as Linden or Basswood honey in North America and Lime honey in the UK and Europe. It is a premier honey that has been enjoyed for thousands of years. At the height of blossoming in a Linden grove or on a street lined with Linden trees, the ambrosial aroma of the tiny yellow-white flowers surrounds you and draws bees from miles around. Among the most common Linden trees in the United States is the Tiliaamericana and the White Basswood (Tiliaheterophylla).

Linden honey has a light yellow color and a very distinctive yet delicate fresh woody scent, making it elite one of honey varieties. It’s medically proven for anxiety and insomnia, also used in the treatment of colds, cough and bronchitis.

Lavender Honey (Lavandula)

Lavender honey is a premium honey. Flowery, pleasant, well balanced and rounded, very fine honey aroma and the delicate floral scent with an evident Lavender component. It has a very persistent medium sweet taste that grows with the finish. It has the scent of lavendar, medium sweetness lavender scented, and has a medium amber color.

Lehua Honey (Metrosiderospolymorpha)

Lehua Honey is made from the lehua (blossoms) of the ʻōhiʻa lehua (Metrosiderospolymorpha), and is probably the rarest Hawaiian Honey.

One of the world's rarest honeys, organic Ohi'a Lehua honey (also known as Lehua honey) is found only in Hawaii, and is produced in late spring and early summer from Lehua blossoms in the Ohi'a forests of Mauna Loa.

One of the world's rarest honeys, organic Ohi'a Lehua honey (also known as Lehua honey) is found only in Hawaii, and is produced in late spring and early summer from Lehua blossoms in the Ohi'a forests of Mauna Loa. It is a white, crystallized honey, with a naturally thick, spreadable texture, and a delicate, understated floral flavor. Ideal for tea drinkers, since it doesn't mask the taste of the tea, it is also excellent for spreading on toast, mixing with nut butters, and scooping directly from the jar!

Macadamia Honey (Macadamia integrifolia)

Macadamia honey is a type of honey produced by bees the are placed near macadamia nut tree orchards, where all of their pollination activity is focused on the white flowers that the macadamia nut tree produces. This gives the honey a nutty flavor that is reminiscent of the macadamia nut itself. A common source for macadamia nut honey is from the US state of Hawaii, where the macadamia nut industry is widespread and the trees flower in the winter season. The dominant producer of macadamia nuts in general, however, is Australia, which produces over one-third of all the world's macadamia nuts each year as of 2011.

Macadamia Honey originated in Australia but also supplied from the United States. Its a deep colored honey possess a distinctive aroma, subtle nutty flavor that goes well with fruit and vegetable salads, ice-cream, toasts, herbal tea, and grilled chicken wings as well.

Mangrove Flower Honey (Rhizophora mangle)

Mangrove honey comes from the organic honey flowers on Mangrove trees in state preserve remote islands in Florida. Each summer the Mangrove trees produce an organic nectar rich flower the bees love to use to make this raw unfiltered honey. This is a special ocean honey from a dwindling habitat. The bees are using Mangrove trees from protected state lands that are free of pesticides. This honey is made by bees gathering nectar from the flowers on the Mangrove Tree which grows in coastal saline water. Mangrove honey is a salty pleasantly mild honey.

Manuka Honey (Leptospermum scoparium)

Mānuka honey is a monofloral honey produced from the nectar of the mānuka tree, Leptospermum scoparium. The honey is commonly sold as an alternative medicine. There is no conclusive evidence of medicinal or dietary value in using mānuka honey other than as a sweetener. The word mānuka is the Māori name of the tree; the spelling manuka (without a macron) is common in English.

Mānuka honey is produced by European honey bees (Apis mellifera) foraging on the mānuka (Leptospermum scoparium), which evidence suggests originated in Australia before the onset of the Miocene aridity. It grows uncultivated throughout both southeastern Australia and New Zealand.

Manuka honey is produced by bees that feed on the flowers of the New Zealand Manuka bush (Leptospermum scoparium). It contains high concentrations of methylglyoxal (MGO) and dihydroxyacetone, which may account for its antibacterial activity.

Applying manuka honey on wounds stimulates the formation of new blood cells and promotes the growth of fibroblast and epithelial cells. This honey has potential wound-healing (vulnerary) activity.

It is rich in vitamins B1, B2, B3, B5, and B6, and amino acids lysine, proline, arginine, and tyrosine. It also contains minerals like calcium, magnesium, copper, potassium, zinc, and sodium.

Melipona Honey (Melipona beecheii)

Melipona bee honey is a thick, sweet-sour liquid obtained from stingless bees of the genus Melipona. This honey is known for being less dense than that obtained from honeybees in the genus Apis, as its humidity levels are higher. Its color varies depending on the native flowers visited by these bees, ranging from nearly transparent to dark amber, and it features more nutritional and curative properties than honey from the common honeybee. Melipona bees feed on native plants whose flowers, rich in alkaloids and flavonoids, give the honey its highly medicinal properties. The extraction of honey differs from the one generally used in beekeeping, which consists of comb centrifugation. Melipona bees stock honey in sack-like wax structures that must be broken or crushed to extract the product.

They are highly social bees that can form perennial colonies of thousands of individuals. Their nesting habits are unique and vary: They can build their hives in hollow trees and shrubs, or even in termite mounds within or under the ground.These bees produce small amounts of honey, but of excellent quality.

Mesquite Flower Honey (Prosopis glandulosa)

This honey is made by bees gathering nectar from the flowers on the Mesquite Tree (Prosopis glandulosa). Mesquite honey is a lightly floral and pleasantly mild honey. The Mesquite Tree flowers from March to November, with pale, yellow, elongated spikes and bears straight, yellow seedpods. It has rounded big and floppy, drooping branches with feathery foliage and straight, paired spines on twigs.

Orange Blossom Honey (Citrus sinensis)

Orange blossom honey comes primarily from flowers of the orange blossoms from orange trees, but can be from a combination of citrus sources, is usually light in color and mild in flavor with a fresh scent and light citrus taste. Orange blossom honey is produced in Florida, Southern California and parts of Texas.

Orange Blossom honey is often made from mixed citrus nectars (Citrus ssp.) including oranges, grapefruit, lemons, mandarins, tangerines, limes and many others. It is a thick, very sweet honey. Initially the aroma is of medium intensity reminiscent of orange blossoms. With time, it takes on an additional delicate fruity aroma like marmalade with slightly citric acid tones. Light amber to white, the lighter color and milder flavor coming in years when there is a large harvest and the honey is little contaminated by other nectars. It will darken with age and crystallizes slowly into granules of various sizes.

Purple Starthistle Honey (Centaurea calcitrapa)

Star thistles, including knapweeds and cornflowers, belong to the Centaurea genus. These in turn are allied with thistles belonging to the Asteracea family of plants. Centaurea is probably one of the largest sources of all thistle honeys. Being good producers of nectar, along with their tendency to grow together (often as an invasive weed), may make them the primary source of nectar at that time of the year. The result is varietal honeys from many different species of Centaurea.

Centaurea species produce a very fine mild flavored honey. It has a light, transparent and a thick viscous appearance with a distinct aroma of anise (some say almonds), slightly sharp or pungent with notes of sweet, spicy cinnamon, molasses and prune.

It has a mild flavor of anise, low sweetness and hints of cinnamon flavor, slightly waxy, metallic flavor and sweet persistent aftertaste. It is slow to crystallize. Individual characteristics vary by specific Centaurea species.

Rapeseed Honey (Brassica napus)

Rapeseed honey aka rape honey, Colour: White. After crystallization, the honey is whitish or dull ivory.

Aroma: floral – fresh fruit (fruity), warm, spoiled and vegetal

Intensity of odour: medium

Acidity: weak

Sweetness: low.

Honeys, like acacia, with high fructose content are sweeter than those with high glucose content.

Rapeseed honey aka rape honey is generally white in color, and floral aroma – fresh fruit (fruity). It’s low in sweetness unlike acacia, having high fructose rather than high glucose content.

Raspberry Honey (Rubusidaeus)

Raspberry honey removes fatigue, nervous tension and, like other honeys, has beneficial effects on the entire human body. Especially useful is this honey raspberry for colds.

When it flowers: it blooms in June and July for 25-40 days. The flowers produce nectar and contain a lot of pollen. Bees are very actively attended by raspberries. With a good, warm weather and sufficient humidity the nectar secretion increases, which improves the honey harvest. There are years when raspberry honey-collecting for the day reaches 2-3.5 kg per family.

It has a slight raspberry flavor, and it will crystallize quickly, so its usually made into a creamed honey that has a light color.

Red Gum Honey (Eucalyptus camaldulensis)

Red Gum is a popular Australian honey. It has a rich golden colour, a savouryflavour and aroma. This honey has been produced from the Heathcote region along the McIvor creek from the single eucalyptus floral variety. The honey is cold extracted and claimed to have a low Glycemic Index (GI) of 46.

Redgum Honey is from a family-run operation in Western Australia. The honey is collected from virgin forests using traditional methods. It is not filtered or heat-treated. It therefore retains its natural phytonutrients, enzymes, antioxidants, propolis, pollen, vitamins and minerals for your good health.

This is raw honey as processing honey removes and destroys much of the health-promoting qualities. For the same reason, it is not advisable to mix with very hot water or cook/bake with it.

Red Gum is a darker premium variety of honey mainly originated in Australia. It has a high level of antioxidants and a distinctive aroma compared to the rest. It's also a favorite ingredient in bread baking and meat marinades.

Rewarewa Honey (Knightiaexcelsa)

Rewarewa Honey is a delicious golden honey sourced from the nectar of New Zealand's elegant Rewarewa tree, also known as the honey-suckle tree.

Rewarewa Honey has a beautiful deep reddish amber appearance and rich, full bodied caramel-like taste. Produced from New Zealand's native Honeysuckle tree, Rewarewa Honey is high in natural antioxidants.

Rewarewa honey is produced from New Zealand's native Honeysuckle tree with red long succulent flowers.

These unusual cylinder shaped flowers only blossom for a very short period to produce nectar with a truly native flavour.

This gourmet honey contains high levels of antioxidants to support your health and well-being.

Rewire honey is a malty variant coming from hills and valleys of New Zealand. It possesses a caramel-like and slightly burnt flavor making it natural sweetener for hot drinks and a spread.

Rosemary Honey

Rosemary honey is produced from Rosmarinus officinalis and is widely used in European countries. It is rich in kaempferol, an antioxidant. Rosemary honey can be used in emulsions and cosmetics to lock the moisture in the skin. Due to its physicochemical properties, rosemary honey can be used as a natural moisturizing agent with a high therapeutic value.

Sage Honey (Salvia Officinalis)

Sage honey is not made only from Salvia Officinalis, but from any of the species from the genus Salvia. Taste: sweet and balanced, similar to tupelo honey.

Sage Honey. Bloom's Sage honey, produced in the California foothills, is a rare, premium honey prized for its delicate flavor, smooth finish, and light color. It derives from the Latin “salvia” which means “to heal.” Floral Source: Purple Sage, Black Sage, other CA wildflowers.

Raw honey has antioxidants and contains helpful trace elements and minerals, such as cobalt, copper, iodine, iron, magnesium and phosphorus. Parents looking for natural remedies have used sage honey to control excessive sweating and turned to its smooth, thick texture to soothe sore throats.

Sage Honey is a light color, heavy-bodied and mild-flavored primarily produced in California. It’s slow to granulate and favorite honey variety among honey packers.

Saw Palmetto Honey (Serenoarepens)

Honeybees make Saw Palmetto Honey from Serenoarepens, a short palm tree topped by an enormous crown of fan-shaped leaves. If you've been anywhere in Florida or along the coast of Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia or southern South Carolina, you've probably seen it. The saw palmetto, a miniature palm tree, produces fruit once a year, from the profusel flowers, which the bees visit.

Sourwood Honey (Oxydendrum arboretum)

Sourwood Honey comes from the Sourwood tree (Oxydendrumarboreum) a member of the Ericaceae family, also called the Sour gum, Sorrel tree or Lily-of-the-Valley tree.

Sourwood Honey has a floral and light taste with hints of baking spices and anise. The honey's color is typically light amber with a slightly gray or brown tint and its texture is defined by a smooth, caramel buttery quality. Sourwood Honey is most abundant in the mountains of North Georgia and Western North Carolina.

Sourwood Honey is made by the bees from Sourwood blossom nectar. Good Sourwood Honey can only be made with trees that bloom above 1000 ft. in the mountains of Georgia and Tennessee.

This light-colored, delicate, subtle honey has an almost caramel or buttery flavor, and a pleasant, lingering aftertaste. With this honey, you don't need any more butter on your biscuits or bread!

Tawari Honey (Ixerbabrexioides)

Tawari (Ixerbabrexioides) is an endemic New Zealand tree (found nowhere else in the World).

Ixerbabrexioides, the sole species in the genus Ixerba, is a bushy tree with thick, narrow, serrated, dark green leaves and panicles of white flowers with a green hart. The fruit is a green capsule that splits open to reveal the black seeds partly covered with a fleshy scarlet aril against the white inside of the fruit. Ixerba is an endemic of the northern half of the North Island of New Zealand. Common names used in New Zealand are tawari (Māori: tāwari) for the tree and whakou when in flower. It is assigned to the family Strasburgeriaceae. The 'Beaujolais' of honeys, Tawari is best savoured when young. It's origins are the lowland forests of New Zealand's far north where the elegant tree's waxy white flowers prized by ancient Maori gift the bees a light yellow nectar with a lingering butterscotch flavour. So subtle and mild, it's perfect for topping pancakes, waffles or icecream.

Originating from creamy white flowers of New Zealand's Tawari trees, this honey has a golden color and creamy butterscotch flavor, perfect choice for topping desserts; pancakes, waffles or ice-cream.

Wilelaiki Honey (Schinus terebinthifolius)

Our most versatile honey, organic Wilelaiki Blossom, is collected in the late summer and autumn from Christmasberry trees on the lower elevations of the leeward side of the island. The tree, originally introduced to Hawaii from Brazil, produces honey with a brilliant amber sparkle and a peppery finish. Wilelaiki combines wonderfully with cheeses, vegetables, and meats. This is a gift for a gourmet.

Yellow Box Honey (Eucalyptus Melliodora)

The Yellow Box Eucalyptus has creamy pale yellow blossoms and a yellow inner bark. The Latin name, Eucalyptus Melliodora is apt; Melliodora is translated as “odor of honey” referring to the sweet honey aroma of the blossoms. The Yellow Box is a common species in the grassy woodlands of the tablelands and western slopes of the Great Dividing Range, extending from northern Victoria, through New South Wales into southeastern Queensland. This species is usually 15–30 m tall and mainly grows on gentle slopes, foothills or on flats near watercourses. It blossoms from October through January.

Yellow box is one of the most popular honey varietals in Australia. It has a beautiful light amber color, aromatic, with a mild distinctive flavor that is smooth and buttery on the tongue. Fairly sweet, it is dense and slow to crystallize.

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Drug company to build new plant in southeastern Wisconsin

Drug company to build new plant in southeastern Wisconsin

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers says an Illinois pharmaceutical company plans to build a drug manufacturing plant in southeastern Wisconsin.

Evers announced Wednesday that Lincolnshire-based Nexus Pharmaceuticals, Inc., plans to build the $250 million, 100,000-square-foot facility in Pleasant Prairie.

Construction is expected to begin in August with production starting in 2022. The company…

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Wisconsin Foxconn plant may get $140M electricity project

MOUNT PLEASANT, Wis. (AP) — A utility company is asking state regulators to approve a $140 million project to supply electricity to the massive Foxconn manufacturing complex in southeastern Wisconsin. Wisconsin Foxconn plant may get $140M electricity project

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Foxconn Reconsidering Plans for a Wisconsin Factory Heralded by Trump

Wisconsin government agreed to provide Chinese manufacturer Foxconn $4 billion in tax credits and other inducements over 15 years to build a a $10 billion Wisconsin plant to make flat-screen televisions on 1,200 acres, creating 13,000 jobs, 70% in manufacturing and 30% in Research & Development. However, costs of manufacturing screens for televisions and other consumer products are too high in the United States. Meanwhile, Foxconn has already invested $200 million in Wisconsin and built a 120,000-square-foot structure. If you were a Foxconn executive what would you do: (1) continue with original plans and hope costs become more reasonable, (2) change the focus to 70% jobs for R&D and 30% for manufacturing, which is unlikely to create 13,000 jobs because 9,000 R&D jobs is not really needed, (3) withdraw from Wisconsin agreement? Why? What are the ethics underlying your decision?

It was heralded a year and a half ago as the start of a Midwestern manufacturing renaissance: Foxconn, the Taiwanese electronics behemoth, would build a $10 billion Wisconsin plant to make flat-screen televisions, creating 13,000 jobs. President Trump later calledthe project “the eighth wonder of the world.”

Now that prospect looks less certain.

Pointing to “new realities” in the market, the company said Wednesday that it was reassessing the plans, underscoring the difficult economics of manufacturing in the United States. “The global market environment that existed when the project was first announced has changed,” Foxconn said in a statement.

Company officials had signaled for months that their emphasis was increasingly on research and development rather than large-scale production, dampening the potential for blue-collar job creation.

That turn runs counter to Mr. Trump’s vision for the project, which he had cited as a milestone in reversing the decline in factory jobs. The twist also brought new friction in Wisconsin, where the initiative has been politically fraught from the start because of its billions of dollars in tax subsidies.

Foxconn said that it remained committed to creating 13,000 jobs in Wisconsin and that it was “moving forward with plans to build an advanced manufacturing facility.” But it did not address the share of jobs to be devoted to production, and economists questioned how such a large work force could be created if the plant’s focus was on other areas.

A White House spokeswoman did not respond to a request for comment.

The Foxconn statement followed a Reuters report that Louis Woo, a special assistant to the company’s chairman, Terry Gou, had said the costs of manufacturing screens for televisions and other consumer products were too high in the United States.

“In terms of TV, we have no place in the U.S.,” Mr. Woo told Reuters. “We can’t compete.”

Mr. Trump’s campaign promise to revitalize American manufacturing was considered an important factor in his capturing Wisconsin and other battleground states in 2016. Yet the cost of luring Foxconn set off a partisan battle in Wisconsin that extended into the midterm elections last year, when Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican, was defeated.

Mr. Walker and state lawmakers had agreed to more than $4 billion in tax credits and other inducements over a 15-year period, an unusually high figure, for a plant in Mount Pleasant, near Racine.

Wisconsin residents have had mixed feelings about the investment, polls show. And early on, economists questioned whether the large-scale manufacturing plant and the thousands of jobs would come to fruition. The increasing focus on research raised new doubts about the scale of hiring — economists said that strategy could produce a smaller number of higher-paying jobs.

“There aren’t that many R&D facilities in the world with 13,000 people,” said Susan Helper, an economist at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

During the fall campaign, Wisconsin Democrats held up the Foxconn pursuit as evidence that Republicans were focused on businesses, not ordinary people — and too willing to hand out state funds to a single company.

Defending their eight years in power, Republicans countered that the plant would re-establish Wisconsin’s strength as a manufacturing hub, and residents in the southeastern part of the state, closest to the plant, were especially receptive.

On Wednesday, reports of Foxconn’s reassessment set off a new round in that political fight. Republicans who control Wisconsin’s Legislature suggested that the arrival of Gov. Tony Evers, the Democrat who ousted Mr. Walker, was partly to blame.

“The company is reacting to the wave of economic uncertainty that the new governor has brought with his administration,” said a statement from the Assembly’s speaker, Robin Vos, and the Senate’s majority leader, Scott Fitzgerald. “Governor Evers has an anti-jobs agenda.”

Mr. Evers, who took office this month, has indicated that he would not block the Foxconn project, although he and other Democrats called it regrettable.

“This deal was reckless from the beginning,” said Martha Laning, the state’s Democratic chairwoman. “Despite multiple red flags throughout the negotiation process, Wisconsin Republicans put taxpayers on the line for $4.5 billion and rewrote the entire rule book for an election-year talking point.”

The plans for the plant — including what it would produce, and the composition of its work force — have changed over time. Tim Sheehy, president of greater Milwaukee’s chamber of commerce, said Foxconn had initially believed that 70 percent of its hires would be for “plant floor” jobs and 30 percent in design and engineering. Now, he said, those proportions have flipped.

Foxconn’s agreement with the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation “does protect the state to some extent if Foxconn falls short of promised job creation,” said Timothy Bartik, an economist for the Upjohn Institute in Kalamazoo, Mich. “But the capital investment tax credit, in particular, does not seem to fully adjust for this if Foxconn ends up doing a much less job-intensive and more capital-intensive project.”

At this point, the cost to taxpayers across the state is likely minimal. The company has said it will forfeit tax credits for 2018 because it fell short of the hiring target on which they were based. The company did receive a sales-tax exemption on some purchases of material, Mr. Bartik said.

The village of Mount Pleasant and Racine County have borne most of the preliminary costs. According to Michael Farren, a research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University in Virginia, Mount Pleasant had acquired 85 percent of the initial 1,200 acres intended for the factory through eminent domain, and turned over at least 65 percent of the land to Foxconn.

Local officials pointed out that Foxconn had already invested $200 million in Wisconsin and built a 120,000-square-foot structure.

But others noted that the company had failed to follow through on grand proposals in the past. It announced in 2013 that it would invest $30 million in a high-tech factory in Pennsylvania that would create 500 jobs. The factory never materialized.

The company laid out ambitious plans in Brazil, too — for 100,000 jobs. That project was mostly left on the table.

“Foxconn has a history of not delivering on its jobs and manufacturing commitments that it’s made,” said Megan Randall, a research associate at the Urban Institute in Washington. “These types of instances are exactly why accountability measures are so important in state and local tax-incentive deals.”

Mr. Bartik said Foxconn’s rationale about changing global conditions was puzzling.

“It is hard for me to see how global conditions have dramatically changed the competitive position of the U.S.’s labor costs in producing flat-screen TVs from when the project was announced in 2017,” he said. Wage growth has accelerated as the labor market has tightened in the past year and a half, but increases have been modest.

It could mean that “this project will end up mostly being a R&D operation in Madison, with a much smaller factory in southeast Wisconsin,” Mr. Bartik said.