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It only makes sense for a business based on bees to partner with a flower business! Check out Garden Style & Co and support our budding local florist!

We’ll have garden-style bouquets for pickup at The Hive on Friday June 12! Order online at gardenstyleco.com!

I’ve had a couple of inquiries this week about chicken salad and will I be making any… everyone should be aware by now that there are some issues with the meat supply chain, which is driving prices up. The cost of chicken from the supplier has doubled in the last week, and in order to keep prices of things here reasonable, most of us are pivoting to making things where the meat we do have can be spread out. Chicken salad is almost ALL chicken. At the moment, it doesn’t make sense to make that so instead I’ll use the chicken to make soups, tetrazzini, etc. When pricing returns to normal I’ll be able to make things like Chicken salad and not have to raise pricing.

Unfortunately it looks like another town has something against food trucks and Florian may not be able to operate there in the future.

If any of you would like to send a message to the Village of New Lenox, Illinois you can do so on their Facebook page.

Last week, the Happy Belly Chefs received an email from a local resident who has been bringing some items to residents at the St. Elizabeth’s apartments here in Channahon. To those of you who aren’t familiar with the apartments, they are an affordable housing development for seniors with some of the units made available for low income senior tenants. Some of the residents are afraid to venture out during the current situation, not wanting to go to a store for things that they need, like food!! After reading the email and talking with the Happy Belly ladies, we decided to try and help. We are going to take donations on the HiveKitchenstore.com online store so that we can buy supplies and make freezer meals for all of the residents in the complex. There are 48 apartments and we are going to be working this week to gather dietary restrictions/allergy information from one of the on-site managers, and once we have that information we are going to create a menu and donate our time and kitchen time to food businesses that work here to make up as many meals as we can for the residents. Something to know that their neighbors care about them and are here for them. If you would like to make a donation, you can do so at hivekitchenstore.com, all proceeds will be spent on food/ingredients for as many meals as we can make.

A couple of weeks ago we had some really nice weather…outside…but the temp in the kitchen was a little too much. That’s when I discovered our AC had given up. As in it needed to be replaced. In the middle of all of the other things going on. Of course the AC died.

So we made some calls and someone came out immediately. He climbed up on the roof, cane back down and said he could get started immediately. A couple of days later (working around the rain) we had a new AC installed. So if you need some help with your AC since it’s about to start getting warm out there (I think!) give Bacer Sweis a call at N-Case heating and cooling in Minooka. He did good work and he was fast!

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