Since living here at “hohm”, increasing the raw fresh and homegrown foods we eat every day here at our New York Retreat, I am falling in deeper in love with flowers as a culinary staple. They are high vibrational foods, easy for anybody to see it with the eyes, but the truth is that flowers have been eaten for thousands of years, and contain vital nutrients such as Vitamin A, Vitamin C, iron, and phosphorous. I eat them because they are beautiful and delicious. Some are sweet, some are spicy, all are gorgeous.

And about local raw honey: honey is naturally antibacterial, and wonderfully enzyme rich. Some believe that the pollen in raw honey acts like inoculants against seasonal allergies.

So this June Rose Honey treat is ALL GOOD, nice clean food.

I’m sure I’ll have an entire cookbook of new ways to eat flowers by the end of another cycle of seasons.

June is when roses bloom. We enjoy them in vases around the retreat for a day or two, then before they fade, we pull off the petals and make as many jars of rose petal honey as we can – we save a few bottles as a coveted winter treat to remind us of summer when the gardens are buried under snow in winter months.

It’s a Birthday treat for Charles (December 30th) as well as a New Years Day sweet treat. It’s not easy not to eat it all now, though.

Here is one that has now become a June Tradition and you should try this because it is so easy. Even a child can do it, (and would really enjoy it too).

Please do not freak out about “calories”. Remember the balance, sweet with sour and spicy. Have just a little sweet, drizzle on something spicy, and you will be satisfied with just enough. Respecting the foods that take so much time and care to grow and make translates into being satisfied with smaller portions that are respectful of the energy the earth and the sun and the gardener put into the growing of it, and the energy you yourself put into the making of it.

Rose Honey Recipe

Fresh natural, unsprayed, organic or wild rose petals
(we gather rugosa from the dunes, and use our
old English heirlooms that we grow here at hohm) –
Honey (local if possible)
Clean Glass Jars with tight lids
Whole Cloves
Cinnamon Stick
Vanilla Bean

Pack the rose petals into your jar, interspersed with about 3 whole cloves and a cinnamon stick for each jar.

For a variety, try a couple of jars with simply the rose petals and a vanilla bean.

Pour honey, stir to cover rose petals as much as you can, then cover tightly. Leave on countertop over night.

Next day, turn the jar upside down (if you fear leaks, do check that lids are very tight and do this on a cookie sheet).

Next day turn again, next day turn again.

I have more edible flowers growing this year than every before. Come hohm and let me show you how to add calendula flowers to watermelon for a refreshing and cleansing summer salad! Please come and enjoy the summer at hohm before its over!

Write SUMMER FLOWERS into the comments field on registration and I will make this for you during your next hohm boutique yoga cleanse retreat!

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