Everyone, I would like you to meet the newest food business joining the Hive! This is Trinity BBQ of Plainfield! They will be installing a smoker here in Kitchen 1 in the next couple of weeks. Head on over to their Facebook page and give them a like to see what they will be doing in Channahon!!
Don’t forget next Sunday 12/15 is the Toys for Tots Toy Drive at @riverhawkbrewing from 3-8pm! It’s a kid friendly event and Santa himself will make an appearance around 4:30pm, so make sure to bring your camera to get a picture of him with your little ones! We will be providing free hot cocoa for the kids, and @happybellychefs will be serving plenty of good food, so come hungry! Lisa from @nbba_llc will have cookie decorating for the kids and cheesecakes for the adults! Bring a new unwrapped toy for the toy drive and receive a drink discount! If you missed this event last year, I can assure you, it is a great time!! The US Marines will be in attendance as well to collect the Toys!
#santaclaus #toydrive #toysfortots #riverhawkbrewing #hivekitchenchannahon #giving #holidays #kidfriendly
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!
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!
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 ❤️
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.
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!
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!
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!
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!
