Here in Iowa (central US) the DNR encourages landowners to plant sorghum as
a food plot for game birds (why they don't suggest planting a prairie is
beyond the scope of this list).

Last year some neighbors planted a few acres of sorghum, which our bees
focused on heavily after the soybeans dried up. The late harvest honey
smelled and tasted so strongly of sorghum many who sampled it felt sure it
must have been blended with sorghum syrup.  It was quite dark too.

I camouflaged it in hearty grain bread recipes (my family wouldn't eat it
otherwise), but even so when I first cut open a loaf I could smell sorghum
very strongly....not a positive in my book.  I know some use sorghum for
cooking, that's fine...but not if you're not expecting sweet honey flavoring
and odor.

I was glad the neighbors didn't plant sorghum this year!  Our late harvest
was slightly darker but still tastes wonderful.

Inger

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