The honey harvest this year wasn't bad, but if the weather had been more accommodating it could have been better. 

"I think we're going to be just below average," says Mark Nichol, Prairie Honeyworks owner. "It seems that's the story from a lot of honey producers around. A few producers were lucky to get maybe average or a little better if they had timely rains. But it seems our region really didn't get those rains at the end of July and the first part of August that we really needed to finish the crop."

Nichol says this year the quality is very good due to areas like the Assiniboine River valley and White Mud River where plenty of clover and wildflowers grow. He adds July was one of the best foraging months for the bees for quite some time, but lack of rains took down the quantity a bit.