Strawberry Honey Freezer Jam

For the past few years, my mom has had an extensive vegetable and herb garden.

We also have a serious number of strawberry plants. The berries are smaller than the ones you'd get in the store, but have a much stronger flavor (sweeter and juicier).

Starting in 2014, she hired a beekeeping service. So now, in addition gaining several thousand little pollinators, we have fresh, local honey. It is like no other honey I've had before. The color changes from season to season, starting out a very light yellow (straw yellow) and getting darker, with the late fall honey being a dark golden yellow. The flavor gets somewhat richer as the honey gets darker.

My favorite thing to do with our strawberries, besides eating them within seconds of picking them, is to make the following jam: