one: 50 bottles in wadi gafar

Jes’ talk to me ’bout hog-meat, ef yo’ want to see me pleased,/ Fur biled wid beans tiz gor’jus, or made in hog-head cheese;/ An’ I could jes’ be happy, ’dout money, cloze or house,/ Wid plenty yurz an’ pig feet made in ol’-fashun “souse.”
Hog Meat, Daniel Webster Davis

There are two seasons for the honey, and the time to harvest the hive is tied into the life cycle of the bee, in turn tied to the flowering of two species of tree, sammar and sidr. So when you ask for honey, you will ask for either asil sidr or asil sammar – but your choice will probably be made for you, for you will get the sammar variety in May and sidr in October. Sidr is considered sweetest, but both usually cost the same, at least from the Aufis.

“When we have a drought and there isn’t any water,” explains Said, “the trees don’t flower. This might make some people feed the bees artificially, but this will never yield the quality of honey that we produce here, naturally.”

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