THE OFFICIAL STORY OF DECADENCE

Remarkable is a description that must be shared with two other outstanding Elgin County Businesses as well as that of Rush Creek Wines. These being G&M Howe Farms, master of the strawberry growers, as well as Clovermead Bees & Honey, wizards in the management of their honey bees. The process starts with a very unique variety of strawberry. A plant grown by Glen Howe which produces berries of unmatched sweetness and quality but most importantly a plant that displayed extraordinary receptiveness to outside flower influences.

To these fields of special strawberry plants, add Clovermead's specially bred strain of honeybees, who can actually be directed to do more tasks than pollinate and gather nectar! Well, suddenly it all flashed before Rush Creek's Wine Master!

 

Kim would source the highest quality, finest ground cocoa powder and have Glen Howe strategically place strays of this cocoa powder throughout his berry field during blossom and Chris Hiemstra, of Clovermead put his bees to work adding this cocoa powder to their legs as they go about pollinating the strawberry plants and thus infusing the chocolate flavour into the blossoms and on into the berries! Brilliant! Then it was done!