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Grandpa’s Garden
Grandpa’s Garden is our parent company, and the birthplace of our meadery. Grandpa’s Garden was a u-pick farm that opened to the public in the summer of 2012. We grew sour cherries, strawberries, raspberries, haskap berries and melons. We also had a selection of market garden vegetables for our customers to enjoy field-to-table deliciousness.
With all those fruit plants blossoming, it was inevitable that we would need bees on our farm to help turn those blooms into glorious fruits and vegetables. So in addition to delicious organically-grown produce, we also soon had honey to harvest – and lots of it!
Grandpa’s Garden Fruit Honey was the result. A blend of our farm-grown fruit with our light local honey made a fantastic and versatile spread, that we continue to offer at both our farm and our storefront in Moose Jaw.
Bees are miraculous and productive little insects, so even with the production of our fruit honey, we still had lots to play with. So – mead. We started at home, in carboys, and what we made was so delectable and thoroughly enjoyed by our friends and family, that we decided to take the plunge and produce it commercially for all to enjoy! In February of 2016 we were granted our license as a cottage winery, and in June of that year, Prairie Bee Meadery was open to the public! The U-Pick is no more, but much of the fruit growing continues (weather permitting) as input to our wine.
Prairie Bee Meadery
Prairie Bee is Saskatchewan’s premiere craft meadery. Our internationally award winning meads are hand-crafted in small batches with locally produced honey. We use only the best light, sweet honey primarily from clover, alfalfa and wildflowers. Real, all-Canadian fruits are incorporated in to the wines before fermentation, creating enchanting aromas and a variety of delectable flavours. Our meads can be sweet or dry, light or bold, making this ancient drink readily enjoyed by all in the new millennium.
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What is Mead?
The simplest explanation is that mead is any beverage created through the fermentation of honey. We all know that yeast causes the fermentation in grape-wine by dining on the sugars in the grape juice and transforming those sugars into alcohol. The process is the same with a mead, except that the yeast consumes the sugars in honey rather than in grape juice.
Mead has been enjoyed for thousands of years in every corner of the world. It has been made in so many different ways, by so many different cultures that, as with grape-wine, there is a vast vocabulary of terms used to describe different types of mead. For example, a melomel is a mead made with the addition of fruits, like our own delicious Strawberry Splash. And a metheglin is a spiced or medicated mead.
Mead is arguable the world’s oldest fermented beverage; it has been consumed for millennia across Europe, Asia and Africa. Imbibed by ancient Greeks, Romans and Egyptians, by Vikings and Celts, this Old World libation is making a comeback across the modern world.
Reviews – What Other People Say
Now we have been around for a while, quite a few folks have had the opportunity to say great things about our product. Check out our reviews
Our Past Media Appearances
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April 12th, 2021 Prairie Bee Meadery wins 5 Silver medals at 2021 London Wine Competition
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Jan 6, 2021 Prairie Bee Meadery wins 3 Silver and 2 Bronze medals at 2020 China Wine Competition
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Nov 26, 2020 The Globe’s 2020 Shop Local Holiday Gift Guide The Globe and Mail
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July 27, 2020 Imaginative At The Meadery Toast Magazine
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June 2020 Prairie Bee Meadery wins Bronze and Silver medals at 2020 Finger Lake International Wine Competition (find us in the list as Grandpa’s Garden)
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July 26, 2019 Prairie Bee Meadery Receives Grant from Federal Government Moosejaw Today
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July 25, 2019 $4.6m in Federal Government Funding for Women Entrepreneurs – Prairie Bee Meadery to Receive $100K Leaderpost
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July 25, 2019 Women’s Entrepreneurial Grant Announcement 980 CJME
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Nov 5, 2018 Making the Mead CTV News (The Canadian Press)
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April 8, 2018 Lovely Mead The Daily Fruit Wine
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Mar 14, 2018 MJBEX Award Discover Moose Jaw (Spoiler: We Won)
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Dec 2017 On the Go: Prairie Bee Meadery CTV Regina
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Oct 4, 2017 What I Brought Home from Saskatchewan The Windsor (this one is only a little bit about us)
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Aug 21, 2017 Berries & Bees Global News
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June 22, 2017 Bees & Fruit Western Producer
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August 12, 2016 Drink Outside the Grape Competition Winners