Chunk honey is a unique and eye-catching way to present honey. It’s a piece of capped cells of comb in a jar full of extracted liquid honey. Here we’ll answer some common questions people have about chunk honey, including how to make it. What Is …
If you regularly enjoy using honey to sweeten your drinks and meals, you’ve probably heard of creamed honey. Have you wondered how different it is from regular honey? Creamed and Regular honey come from the same main ingredient – raw honey. However, creamed honey undergoes …
In certain situations, you will need to replace your old queen with a new one. This task, referred to as requeening, is one of many important jobs you’ll be required to do at some point in order for your hive or hives to remain healthy. …
Requeening is becoming more and more popular these days… but when should you do it? Or should you do it at all? This article takes you through everything you need to know about requeening. What Is Requeening? Requeening is the act of exchanging the existing …
Honey is a natural sweetener that has been enjoyed for many years. Bees produce it from the nectar in flowers and it’s famous for its unique properties – such as never spoiling! But, if that’s true, why does it have an expiration date when we …
While inspecting your honey frames, you’ve probably noticed capped and uncapped honey. Usually, before extracting honey, you would wait until the honey is capped. But what happens if you feel impatient and can’t wait for all the honey to be capped? Can you eat and …
There are many types of honey on the market, each with a distinctive flavor and characteristics. Two popular varieties are clover honey and manuka honey. But what’s unique about them, and how do they differ? Although both types of honey are monofloral, they come from …
Queen honey bees are different from workers and drones. They have a distinct role in the colony that no other bee can do. This includes laying eggs and producing pheromones that keep the colony in check. But what do these all-important bees eat? Do queen …
Orange Blossom honey is made from the nectar found in the flowers of orange trees. It has a beautiful, light color and a delicate citrus flavor. This honey is produced in many citrus-growing regions worldwide, including California, Florida, Brazil, and Spain. Orange blossom honey is …
A bee hotel or bee house is a wooden structure with holes that provide places for solitary bees to nest, breed and stay safe from threats. You can place a bee hotel in your garden as a way to help out bees in your area. …
