I love seeing the changes of honey over the summer time. In my experience, Spring honey has been light in color and starts to get darker with every harvest throughout the summer. The taste changes also. This Spring, the honey was packed with a sweet wildflower taste. This early August was dark with a little sweet tang at the end. All in all, it was delicious. We always leave enough for the bees for winter because this is their food too. If they don’t have sufficient food during the winter, they starve and die. Bees don’t hibernate during the winter, they cluster up to keep the queen warm, so it is important for them to have ventilation and food supply throughout the cold season.