{"id":63,"date":"2007-07-02T14:17:02","date_gmt":"2007-07-02T18:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/02\/still-no-supply-squeeze-from-colony-collapse-disorder\/"},"modified":"2007-07-02T14:17:02","modified_gmt":"2007-07-02T18:17:02","slug":"still-no-supply-squeeze-from-colony-collapse-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/02\/still-no-supply-squeeze-from-colony-collapse-disorder\/","title":{"rendered":"Still No Supply Squeeze From Colony Collapse Disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My cherry wine is fermenting nicely. I plan to press it soon, and use the pomace to make a cherry mead. The good price on the cherries worked out really well, but it did leave me with a dilemma about the honey. Use the wildflower that I have? It would be much better in the beer-like mead that I&#8217;m planning. Order more wildflower, so I can use it anyway? That would mean I couldn&#8217;t try something new. My brilliant plan was to pop over to Costco. They&#8217;re selling clover honey in 6 lb cartons for $7.99. That&#8217;s a little higher than I remember it from last year, but at $1.33\/lb it&#8217;s still a good price. As an aside, it means that there&#8217;s no sign of a spike in honey prices as a result of Colony Collapse Disorder. The season isn&#8217;t over yet, of course, and we don&#8217;t really know how CCD will play out, but I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/14\/honey-prices-making-sense-of-colony-collapse-disorder\/\">back in May<\/a> that I didn&#8217;t expect a honey supply squeeze. With no new information out since then, I&#8217;m still an optimist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My cherry wine is fermenting nicely. I plan to press it soon, and use the pomace to make a cherry mead. The good price on the cherries worked out really well, but it did leave me with a dilemma about the honey. Use the wildflower that I have? It would be much better in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colony-collapse-disorder","category-mead"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}