Calgary honey business gets a sweet boost

A local, family-owned honey business is thanking a new initiative for getting their product to shoppers. Bear Bait Honey says it’s been struggling in more way than one during the pandemic. “We ran out of honey in March and it was hard for us to replace that,” owner Herman Van Reekum said. “A lot of beekeepers import new colonies from New Zealand and that was shut down this year due to COVID.” The family is having a tough time producing honey thanks to a fractured su