Hi there, there’s a chance you’ve arrived here from a QR code on the back of one of my jars or section boxes: if so, welcome, the honey you have in front of you contains some amount of ‘buckwheat’ nectar and pollen. This can be a little of an acquired taste so please let me tell you a little about it before you judge this book by its cover!1
Buckwheat is a cereal-like flowering plant that produces seeds that are very similar to grains but it is actually more closely related to knotweed and rhubard than it is to wheat.
The name2 comes from the middle Dutch for ‘beech wheat’, so named due to the seeds resembling the larger nuts of the beech tree but being used as wheat.