We extracted our first batch of this year’s honey from our Seven Kings bees last weekend and got some of it bottled last night.
It’s all in 454g/1lb jars and they’re £6 each.
We also have cut comb honey in stock as well.
See you soon!
Scientists have identified two incredibly well preserved nests containing equally well preserved pupae of the leafcutter bee from the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. The results, which have been published in the journal PLOS ONE, are helping to divulge information on the climate and environment in this area around 40,000 years ago.
Read more at http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bee-fossils-shed-light-environment-late-pleistocene#f852Pyj3tK6tbw9Y.99
So, stop pulling it up, says University of Sussex boffins, as it is vital for pollinating insects at a time of year there is very little else for them…Why ivy is important to pollinating insects
Chinese honey banned from UK supermarket shelves
Just goes to show, if you care about what you put into your body, you need to know where your honey is coming from.
Buying your honey from a local beekeeper should give you the confidence you are buying a raw, unadulterated product that will have only been strained lightly.
OK, so it will contain pollen and possibly a tiny amount of wax, but that will be it. When you buy honey from your local beekeeper, that is exactly what you get.
BUY LOCAL HONEY. You really can’t beat it.
To find a beekeeper near you, go to The Honey Beehive.
And so the Irish throw down the gauntlet to the Kiwis over manuka…
So, all those people who have been spending an arm and a leg buying (heavily marketed) manuka honey might have been better off buying local, raw honey from their local beekeepers.
The land of bad milk and fake honey
Who’d have though it, eh?
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