Tasting Like a Sommelier & Honey Plants of Ontario | Honey Tasting Workshop

This immersive two-part honey workshop is designed for beekeepers, honey producers, and food professionals looking to deepen their tasting skills and industry knowledge.

Part One: Tasting Like a Sommelier
Participants will be introduced to sensory analysis and how to evaluate and speak about premium products and terroir. Tauney will explore European honey schools, certification processes, and guide attendees through aroma and flavour demonstrations using common scents and tastes.

A provided lunch will follow the first session.

Part Two: Honey Plants of Ontario & Varietals
The afternoon session focuses on Ontario’s honey plants and includes a guided tasting of Ontario honey varietals. The workshop concludes with an industry discussion on CFIA labelling requirements, developing shared standards, and working collaboratively toward improved honey assessment and labelling practices.

Forager Bee is the labour of love of Tauney Stinson, a Renfrew County local, offering foraging classes, outdoor education, handmade pottery, honey, and other apiary products. Forager bees are the bees in the hive that go out and collect all the good things nature has to offer and share that information with the hive, much like Tauney does herself.

Tauney has been foraging most of her life, and began teaching in 2019. She's lead hundreds of people on forays with a focus on safety and sustainability. From 2022-2023, she was the professor of Wild Edibles at Algonquin College in the Outdoor Adventure Naturalist program, and is an admin in the Edible Wild Ontario and Ottawa Valley Mushroom groups on Facebook. Along with her friends at Anupaya Cabin Co and Perch restaurant in Ottawa, she's helped create the wildly successful Wild Path dinner and Field and Forest events. She's been featured on CBC Radio One, the Eganville Leader's annual tourism magazine, and other publications.