In the October issue of Bee Culture magazine, in the article on Organic
Honey, there is mention of a group called "Certified Naturally Grown". These
people have been checked out by USDA, and others, as meeting criteria of,
yes, Certified Naturally Grown". They are not the same as organic, they are
different. Read the article. Go to the web page, naturallygrown.org, and
check it out. They do not yet have a class for honey, but we are working on
one that will meet the same criteria they have for their other crops. If
anybody on this list has attainable thoughts on naturally grown honey,
please send them to me, and the list if you feel so inclined, and they will
be thrown into the 'naturally grown' stew so to speak and added to those
already in the kettle. This category of honey production is being developed
because the main difficulty in producing organic honey is location,
location, location. We hope to have this complete by spring, but that may
not happen. This listing will not be the end all defination of naturally
grown, but reinventing the wheel again, and again and again seems futile to
me. But, I'd rather have, I guess, too many choices than too few.

Kim Flottum
Editor, BeeCulture
623 West Liberty Street
Medina, Ohio  44256
V - 800.289.7668 Ext 3214
Fax - 330.725.5624
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