Honey makes sweet work of monastery harvest

By Chelsea Wallis
Oct. 31, 2011 – Medill News Service, Washington, D.C.

Volunteers gathered at the Franciscan Monastery in northeast Washington Saturday morning to extract the second of two honey harvests this year. The unseasonably cold weather made for slow work, but by the afternoon they packaged about 75 pounds of wildflower honey.

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