Household Uses for Honey Shared from MOTHER EARTH LIVING The sweet nectar of honey is a treasured food for many. And while it tastes great, many also know that it has a seemingly endless list of medicinal benefits, including relieving coughs, soothing burns, treating cuts and much more. Use this wonderful tool to effectively heal […]

Story and photos by Jennifer Sartell An adult bee’s diet is primarily made up of three types of food. Honey, Nectar and Pollen. In this post, we will discover how each of these food groups provide essential nutrient to a bee. Nectar Where does nectar come from? Nectar actually begins in the leaves of plants. […]

Christmas shopping just got easier after making a batch of my lavender honey-scented body butter. Easy to whip up in a couple of hours, this body butter is a smooth emollient welcome on winter parched skin. And what better way to put to use the beeswax & honey that I gathered from the hive this summer? […]

Slow Roasted Vidalia Onions With Honey, Lemon, and Rosemary Prep time: 15 minutes Cook time: 1 hour 45 minutes 2 teaspoons vegetable oil 4 Vidalia onions, peeled and cut in half 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt 1 tablespoon vegetable oil 2 tablespoons honey 1 lemon 1 sprig rosemary Heat heavy bottom sauté pan. Add Vidalia onions cut side […]

Baked Peaches Recipe with Honey and Almonds Serves 8 Ingredients: 4 tablespoons butter 4 peaches halved, cored, and skinned 8 tablespoons skinned almonds 8 tablespoons honey Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place butter in bottom of casserole and melt butter. Place peaches core-side up in baking dish. In a small bowl, combine almonds and honey. […]

Honey Almond Brickle 6 tablespoons unsalted butter 3/4 cup honey (such as Eucalyptus, Wildflower or other assertive honey*) 2 cups slivered almonds 3/4 teaspoon salt 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons heavy cream In a heavy-bottomed saucepan, melt butter and honey over medium-high heat. Add almonds and stir constantly for 8 to 10 minutes. The almonds […]

For the past hundred years, we’ve been keeping bees according to what works best for beekeepers. What would it look like if we began putting the bees’ desires and needs first? It looks something like this…

This refreshing cocktail uses a simple syrup made of honey that is simple to make indeed! No mead needed.

Guest post by Dana Harris The benefits of keeping bees are countless, starting from the valuable products bees produce all the way to the fact that they contribute to keeping the ecosystem balanced. These small hard-working creatures play an important role in pollinating the flowers and crops without which we wouldn’t have many of the […]

Did you know one healthy hive will make or consume more than 50 kg of honey in a single year? But how is it made, exactly? You may be surprised to learn, it involves kind of a lot of vomit.

The land of milk and honey…literally.   When our goats are in milk, we can potentially get over two gallons of milk per day. That’s a lot of milk for two people to consume. I’d love to sell it, but unfortunately milk laws being what they are, make that difficult.   Over the years, I’ve […]

Honey is a unique food in that it never spoils. Properly saturated honey should stay safe to eat forever.   In fact, one study found “stored honey from Ancient Egypt to be over 3000 years old and still completely edible”. http://www.compoundchem.com/2014/08/21/chemistryofhoney/   So Why Doesn’t Honey Spoil?   Honey safely stores for long periods of […]

When it comes to keeping bees, one of the sweetest rewards is that of a splendid honey harvest. No matter the reasons for keeping bees, often folks get most excited when the time comes to harvest the delicious and highly nutritious honey from their hives. Most beekeepers with existing hives do two harvests, one in […]

When people mention beekeeping, it’s the sweet golden stuff that gets all the attention. But bees also make another useful and rather remarkable product in the form of comb. What is beeswax exactly? How does it come into existence in the hive? Do bees collect it? Is it part of the pollen that they carry? […]

It’s best to only have enough comb in your hive that your bees can cover and with cooler temperatures coming, they will start to cluster. Keeping warm will be easier in a smaller space.