Yaupon Garden Club Meeting: Cooking and Baking with Honey

Beekeeper Nona Evans from Texas Sassy Bees will share her passion and experience incorporating honey into all manners of cooking and baking. Learn tips and tricks for swapping honey for refined sugar. Learn how to substitute honey in baking recipes. Understand the advantages to using honey over refined or processed sweeteners. Nona will bring samples of Honey & Citrus Wheatberry Salad and Honey Cardamom Cookies. Taste this season’s honey crop and find answers to all your bee questions and curiosities.

As CFO for Spillers Farm & Ranch, Nona manages a crop and cattle farm in Cibolo and a ranch in Seguin, which is robust with Yaupon trees and bee hives. She is on the board of PEAS (Partners in Education, Agriculture and Sustainability) that serves 38 Austin area school gardens, is the Bee Mentor for the Bowie High School Bee Club.