Slide Ridge Raw Honey Highly Recommended by the Peachy's Pantry Panel of Whom You Know
I use honey daily as a sweetener in my coffee. It’s better for you than sugar or any other sweetener and tastes delicious! If you haven’t gotten on board with Raw Honey and its amazing health benefits, you need to! I was super excited to try this in my morning coffee, and it did not disappoint! More than just sweetness, it added a dimension of flavor to my coffee… something wholesome that I couldn’t quite put my finger on! Read about raw honey and give this delicious Utah honey a try… with its delicious, sweet wholesomeness, you’ll be glad you did!
Slide Ridge Raw Honey is 100% raw/natural honey. Its sweet, smooth-consistency is a delight in a cup of hot tea. It can be substituted in recipes calling for sugar. Available in a 1.5 lb. jar, this is an appropriate natural food product for a gift basket. The color, clarity and taste are quite satiable. Support this superb product Made in the U.S.A.: Mendon, Utah.
Honeybees in Utah, high up on a mountain, give us this light sun-filled honey. Slide Ridge keeps their bees happy with a diet of mountain wildflowers, and all the good will that comes with being out in the fresh air. It's a smooth, raw honey, perfect for sweetening or baking. Perfect for your morning cup of tea, too. The idea of sampling a new honey every season intrigues me, so I can't wait until next year's batch to see the difference. We'll have to start collecting honey by vintage as we do with wines, just to savor the changes. Drizzled over ripe pears with goat's milk yogurt, this honey makes for a healthy mid-morning snack.
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Martin James began his beekeeping dreams at the age of 8 when he asked to attend a class at the local university (USU). He was too young, but the following year, he persuaded his mother to enroll and the professor allowed Martin to come along with her. His fascination for bees has never waned.
About a dozen years ago, Martin along with his sister Karla decided to get serious about beekeeping with a desire to make his passion his profession. Martin had already built a successful floor covering business, but decided it was time to follow his boyhood dreams. Since that time, Slide Ridge has grown from a few beehives to thousands of beehives and millions of bees. The operation now employs not only Martin, but his brother, two sisters, and other full and part-time staff. His parents have contributed their expertise from the beginning and continue to bring meaningful experience and service to the company.
After a few years of pollination and honey sales, Martin decided it was time to create a new, unique product, using the honey from his bees. The goal was to diversify the company and provide better revenue from derivative honey products. We’re beekeepers, and to us, honey is art, sunshine, captured in a jar. But we weren’t satisfied with beautiful honey; we wanted to make something different, something no one else was doing, something amazing! So, we decided to use our beautiful honey to make vinegar, from scratch, without any prior knowledge of how to do it.
It took seven years to understand and perfect the process: seven years of patience, seven years of setbacks, seven years of progress, until finally, we had the perfect vinegar, the perfect flavor. The end result was a sweet Honey Wine Vinegar unlike anything we have ever tasted. It retains the sweetness of the honey and radiates the strength and beauty of the sunshine that is its ultimate source. Hand crafted and tended through a custom 18 month process, we bottle the essential joy of the sun!
So began the family’s journey in the gourmet food industry. The company continues to innovate, based on the family’s boundless energy and creativity with additional vinegar flavors, a line of marinades, and other new ideas and products currently in development.
Our unique vinegar products are hand crafted from 100% pure, raw, unfiltered Utah wildflower honey, straight from the bee to the bottle. The end result is an unforgettable flavor that is smooth enough to enjoy by itself, but strong enough to liven up your favorite dishes, from meats to salads to deserts.
Slide Ridge products are all-natural products using all-natural methods and ingredients. We don't use pesticides or other artificial chemicals in the maintenance of our hives and bees. Our methods are natural and progressive, and we offer our understanding and knowledge freely to other beekeepers. The process of pollination is the essence of sustainable agriculture. Our bees pollinate commercial crops in the spring and summer wildflowers during the honey flow, improving the farmer's yield as well as the quality and strength of the open range lands. Our honey is never filtered or homogenized. It is extracted and bottled in recyclable glass jars that can also be reused as canning jars for those who preserve their own produce. We use no artificial colors or preservatives in our honey or our vinegars, maintaining the inherent beauty and flavor of a natural product.
Our Honey Wine Vinegar is great as a simple yet flavorful low-calorie dressing, but it also makes a great ingredient for dressings, marinades, glazes, sauces, desserts, and much more! It livens up any table and pairs very well with fruits and vegetables, meats and fish, specialty cheeses, and even desserts. The flavor is bright and sweet, but not overpowering, making a perfect ingredient for just about any dish.
Martin’s Green Chili is our first marinade; it is a southwest flavor using our Harvest Apple honey vinegar, green chilies and garlic. We carefully source all our ingredients, using local or regional producers and individual farms. The results are incredible flavors that are delicious, healthy, and just plain fun to use.
