Graveyard gold: J. Edgar Hoover's cemetery harvests honey from 65,000 gravesites

The daisies being pushed up by the 65,000 buried at the famous Historic Congressional Cemetery, resting place to John Philip Sousa and J. Edgar Hoover, aren’t just ornamental. Those wildflowers are supplying a gooey good nectar for hundreds of thousands of honey bees housed on the 35-acre site.

And now the honey made from those flowers and trees in and around the Capitol Hill graveyard is being collected and offered under the appropriate label name of “Rest in Bees.”