Rosh Hashanah
From Trees to Bees
HOW APPLES AND HONEY ARRIVE ON THE PLATE
SASHA ROGELBERG | STAFF WRITER
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t an ACME or Giant or Wegmans, a bear-shaped
squeeze bottle of honey can cost about $5; an apple
is about a buck. The drive or walk to the grocery store
might be 15 minutes, and it takes even less time to chop the
apple and dunk it in the viscous honey.

Fulfi lling the tradition of eating apples and honey for the
new year is a simple aff air on the surface. But beyond the
trip to the grocery store and the kitchen prep time, there are
thousands of hours that have gone into the creation of the
holiday-defi ning dish.

“We’re kind of used to just having food available ... We need
something, we go out and buy it,” said Don Shump, owner of
the Philadelphia Bee Co. “We don’t really think about how much
eff ort goes into that.”
Shump is the adviser for Congregation Rodeph Shalom’s
Holy Honey apiary where he, along with Penn State University
student Arthur LaBan, who helped start the hives as part of
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