This honey sounds like aster to me.
  
  The "ferals" probably came from your colonies' swarms or someone elses.  I have a "bee tree" in the front yard of my house. It has been occupied  for the last 15 years or more. Sometimes the colony survives the winter  and sometimes not. It will usually get reoccupied by a swarm from one  of my colonies or from the colony in the eve on the back side of our  house.
  
  I still maintain that a feral colony is just an unmanaged colony. The  words are interchangable, with a few minor differences. Such as the  hive being occupied by the colony. The bees are nearly the same.
  
  Mark

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.  The honey started crystalizing with very fine grain in 
the buckets within 3 days after extraction!  I have not seen this 
before.

The only [major] difference I see between local ferals and my 
colonies is the amount of stored spring/summer honey.  

 
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