Award-Winning Happy Belly Chefs!
We will be closing the kitchen a little early tonight (5:15) so that we can celebrate with Happy Belly Chefs when they are awarded with a Best of Will County award tonight!
Category: Hive Community
Little River Farmstead
Tonight there is a couple in the kitchen who drove two and a half hours to extract 500 pounds of honey from their farm. They’re a small farm but they use their own wax and goats milk for the products that they make, and they grow hemp for use in their CBD products. Check them out! They’re an Illinois company, they’re probably as local as you can get for CBD oil products. Support your farmers ? you know this stuff isn’t coming from China!
The Hive is Growing
In beekeeping, there’s a thing called “splitting the hive.” A beekeeper will do this usually in the spring, when the original hive has become too crowded with bees. If a big hive isn’t properly managed, the bees will swarm. They’ll leave the hive to look for a better place to live. In a split, half of the bees will be moved to another hive in the hopes that they will build up a second strong hive, just like the colony they were split from. It’s a reproduction process basically.
Well, that’s what happened at our Hive. We’re getting too crowded, and we would like to manage things so nobody feels like there’s not enough room and they want to leave. So we are giving them more room to work.
Luckily for us, there was an additional space open in the same strip mall where our original kitchen is located. It needs some work, and I will be heavily involved in the whole process while trying to manage the existing kitchen at the same time. So if I don’t see your Facebook post asking me to hold items for you, I’m sorry in advance, it’ll probably happen more than once during this renovation process. I’ll be juggling contractors and inspections and doing some of the work myself. We are planning to move the storefront to the new space to add more room so we can sell more products and ready made meals. Thanks to all of you who have been coming by and picking up meals, we’re growing. Faster than we thought we would. So stay tuned for more details on the second kitchen, and for updates on more food businesses joining the Hive.
Thank you to all of you over the past year for all of your support ❤️
Welcome The Joyful Baker
Desiree from The Joyful Baker will be starting soon and making delicious cake rolls and more! Head on over to her page and give her a like and stay tuned, pretty sure pumpkin rolls are on the menu soon! Check out her Facebook page here.
Welcome Country Grill Rotisserie Chicken!
Everyone! Let us introduce you to our newest food truck. The owner came here directly from Germany, so you have to know these are not going to be your standard grocery store rotisserie chickens! The truck is something to see, I guarantee you have never seen one like it before. Check out his website or head on over to his brand new Facebook page and give him a Like so you know where he will be selling!
Welcome Creations by Careese to The Hive!
June is turning out to be a busy month at the kitchen because it’s the beginning of festivals and farmers markets! Our newest member is a gourmet cookie baker!! Head on over to Creations by Careese’s Facebook page and give her a like, and I’ll post here when we have some cookies in the kitchen for purchase!
NBBA Cheesecakes are coming to The Hive
Our next new food business is starting soon! NBBA LLC is a mobile pastry company owned by Pastry chef Lisa Austin, and her personal sized cheesecakes are fantastic!
Head on over to her Facebook page to keep up with what she will be offering and what events she will be a part of!
Welcome Eat2Bfit to The Hive!
We’re very happy to bring the talents of chef Ed of Eat2Bfit to the Hive Kitchen! Head over to his Facebook page and give it a like, and see the options he will be bringing to Channahon!
Something new at The Hive
We have some news.
Things have been quieter from the kitchen this week because we’ve been preparing for a change. Starting next week we will have a freezer stocked with take and bake items (soups, stuffed peppers, pizzas, meatballs, pasta dinners and more!) and will have regular hours where you can stop by and pick something up for breakfast…lunch…dinner…whatever ? The freezer is up front near the windows, looks just like this, and we hope to see all of you stopping in for an easy meal. I’ll still post regularly when we add new or more items to the freezer. We will also make sure to have our single serving sizes in the freezer as well.
Welcome to the Hive: We Make You Bake!
We’re happy to welcome We Make You Bake to the kitchen! Check out their Facebook page and menu to see what they are bringing to the table!
They will be participating in their first Hive Kitchen Saturday Morning Market Day on February 9th. Check out what they’re making and how to order here!