Stands the church clock still at three?
Is there honey still for tea?
Joanna here, talking about honey, which I'm fond of.
Humans have been exploiting honeybees for a long, long time. This cave painting on the left, from Valencia, Spain shows someone honey stealing 8000 years ago.
(Is that a tree being robbed, or a cliff face over who knows how great a fall?)
Somebody taking a chance, anyway.
The wandering hunter gatherer would notice some bees innocently engaged in bumbling about on some ancient clover and say to herself (or himself) “By golly, I’d like a spot of honey on my Neolithic bread.”
Your bee-seeker would follow the bee across the clearings and through the woods to the hive. Little did the worker bee realize what he’d let the communal homestead in for.
Bees, by the way, are fussy about the tree cavity they’ll live in. About a 12 gallon space (ask at your local fish store) is preferred and between 3 and 15 feet above the ground. Our gymnastic honey-napper seems to be going after one of the high ones.
The intrepid prehistorical type would shinny up the tree or hang down from a ledge with – that looks like a basket or a bag, doesn’t it? – and grab out big gobs of honeycomb and carry them off.
“Ouch, ouch, ouch,” prehistorical type would go, hotfooting home.
Once home they may have eaten it and the comb like candy or might have doled it out bit by on top of the stew or bread.
Or they might have made mead.
I favor mead, myself, the oldest reliable booze. They’ve found the remains of mead of a sort (wild grapes, honey and rice ) in 9000-year-old pottery jars in Northern China. The linguistic root of the word mead, medhu, is Proto-Indo-European. Its lineal descendants are found in ALL the Indo-European languages.That tells you how old mead making is.
Our clever prehistoric forebearers probably found uses for the nifty beeswax, waterproofing baskets or hats, slippering up bowstrings. Cosmetics, too, I’ll bet.
Gracious words are like honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.
Proverbs 16:24
In the fullness of time, the honeybee, like the horse, the goat, and the dog, was domesticated. Humans made irresistibly tempting houses to lure them in.
Some of the oldest beehives we’ve found are 3000 years old. These Middle Eastern hives were long clay cylinders made of unbaked clay, straw, and dung, stacked several high. One end, with an entry hole for the bees—bees like a single entry. The other end was a door for the beekeeper to extract the honey.
In the same time period tomb portraiture shows us the Egyptians were smoking the bees to quiet them while the honey was gathered. Here on the right they're doing just that.
Surviving examples of these tube hives are laid out in batteries of longitudinal hives. Massive operations of hundreds of thousands of bees.
Interestingly, the three-millennia-old bees found in Tel Rehov, Israel, are most closely related to Turkish bees. Were these early apiaries staffed by carefully imported honey bees?
I’m trying to imagine travelling the ancient world with honey bees.
The Romans kept bees. They left us apiaries built as rows of little caves.
Their preferred honey was thyme honey, which is admittedly pretty good.
Pliny the Elder called honey the “sweat of the heavens” and the “saliva of the stars.” Had a way with words, Pliny did.
Medieval beekeeping in Europe departed from this Mediterranean custom of clay cylinders and caves and went for a shape and material that would keep the bee sisterhood warm and dry and comfy.
Enter the bee skep, a woven conical structure that breathed in warm humid days but also shed water nicely on the rainy days. Think of them as baskets placed open end down. They were in use in Europe for 2000 years, right up to the end of the Nineteenth Century.
A woman’s sewing kit would not have been complete without a piece of beeswax, usually a lump about half the size of a hen’s egg. The wax was used to weld together the loose ends of threat or to make a needle more slippery.
Our folks in the Regency would have encountered these skeps as a familiar sight in the country.
There'd be a couple in every cottager’s farmyard. They were part of the smallholder’s economy. A market product as well as a welcome addition to the table.
Beeswax “is become the greatest supply of light in all polite assemblies." 1827
By old tradition, every hive was politely informed of the important events of the family. Births, deaths, marriages. All the news.
Who knows what would happen if this duty was ignored?
Are you a fan of some particular honey?
My favorite is Tupelo, made from the tupelo gum tree. Best. Just the best.
We’ve come a long way from just grabbing whatever happened to be in the tree.
Photocredit AbouShaara amithaimazar
Thanks for a fascinating post, Joanna. I found the cave painting stunning! I don’t have a particular favorite honey and will happily eat most kinds. I am fond of Violet Crumble honeycomb candy, but I don’t think it’s made with honey.
Thanks for a fascinating post, Joanna. I found the cave painting stunning! I don’t have a particular favorite honey and will happily eat most kinds. I am fond of Violet Crumble honeycomb candy, but I don’t think it’s made with honey.
Thanks for a fascinating post, Joanna. I found the cave painting stunning! I don’t have a particular favorite honey and will happily eat most kinds. I am fond of Violet Crumble honeycomb candy, but I don’t think it’s made with honey.
Thanks for a fascinating post, Joanna. I found the cave painting stunning! I don’t have a particular favorite honey and will happily eat most kinds. I am fond of Violet Crumble honeycomb candy, but I don’t think it’s made with honey.
Thanks for a fascinating post, Joanna. I found the cave painting stunning! I don’t have a particular favorite honey and will happily eat most kinds. I am fond of Violet Crumble honeycomb candy, but I don’t think it’s made with honey.
The quote “A woman’s sewing kit would not have been complete without a piece of beeswax, usually a lump about half the size of a hen’s egg. The wax was used to weld together the loose ends of threat or to make a needle more slippery.”
19th century, heck. If a person who sews still prefers all cotton thread to cotton poly, (which I do – easier on the fingers) it is still in a sewing basket. For applications such as sewing on a button, I wax the thread. This is for any application where there may be strain and particularly abrasion. Still in any sewing shop, or from Amazon.
https://smile.amazon.com/Dritz-622-Beeswax-with-Holder/dp/B00AQ7CVPO/ref=sr_1_3?
The quote “A woman’s sewing kit would not have been complete without a piece of beeswax, usually a lump about half the size of a hen’s egg. The wax was used to weld together the loose ends of threat or to make a needle more slippery.”
19th century, heck. If a person who sews still prefers all cotton thread to cotton poly, (which I do – easier on the fingers) it is still in a sewing basket. For applications such as sewing on a button, I wax the thread. This is for any application where there may be strain and particularly abrasion. Still in any sewing shop, or from Amazon.
https://smile.amazon.com/Dritz-622-Beeswax-with-Holder/dp/B00AQ7CVPO/ref=sr_1_3?
The quote “A woman’s sewing kit would not have been complete without a piece of beeswax, usually a lump about half the size of a hen’s egg. The wax was used to weld together the loose ends of threat or to make a needle more slippery.”
19th century, heck. If a person who sews still prefers all cotton thread to cotton poly, (which I do – easier on the fingers) it is still in a sewing basket. For applications such as sewing on a button, I wax the thread. This is for any application where there may be strain and particularly abrasion. Still in any sewing shop, or from Amazon.
https://smile.amazon.com/Dritz-622-Beeswax-with-Holder/dp/B00AQ7CVPO/ref=sr_1_3?
The quote “A woman’s sewing kit would not have been complete without a piece of beeswax, usually a lump about half the size of a hen’s egg. The wax was used to weld together the loose ends of threat or to make a needle more slippery.”
19th century, heck. If a person who sews still prefers all cotton thread to cotton poly, (which I do – easier on the fingers) it is still in a sewing basket. For applications such as sewing on a button, I wax the thread. This is for any application where there may be strain and particularly abrasion. Still in any sewing shop, or from Amazon.
https://smile.amazon.com/Dritz-622-Beeswax-with-Holder/dp/B00AQ7CVPO/ref=sr_1_3?
The quote “A woman’s sewing kit would not have been complete without a piece of beeswax, usually a lump about half the size of a hen’s egg. The wax was used to weld together the loose ends of threat or to make a needle more slippery.”
19th century, heck. If a person who sews still prefers all cotton thread to cotton poly, (which I do – easier on the fingers) it is still in a sewing basket. For applications such as sewing on a button, I wax the thread. This is for any application where there may be strain and particularly abrasion. Still in any sewing shop, or from Amazon.
https://smile.amazon.com/Dritz-622-Beeswax-with-Holder/dp/B00AQ7CVPO/ref=sr_1_3?
I don’t know much about different kinds of honey, but I do know I have severe reactions to bee stings! The last time it happened (on a big, open beach, of all places), my arm swelled up to the size of my thigh.
We use beeswax to make pysanky – those intricately-decorated Ukrainian Easter eggs. It’s much harder to find these days.
I don’t know much about different kinds of honey, but I do know I have severe reactions to bee stings! The last time it happened (on a big, open beach, of all places), my arm swelled up to the size of my thigh.
We use beeswax to make pysanky – those intricately-decorated Ukrainian Easter eggs. It’s much harder to find these days.
I don’t know much about different kinds of honey, but I do know I have severe reactions to bee stings! The last time it happened (on a big, open beach, of all places), my arm swelled up to the size of my thigh.
We use beeswax to make pysanky – those intricately-decorated Ukrainian Easter eggs. It’s much harder to find these days.
I don’t know much about different kinds of honey, but I do know I have severe reactions to bee stings! The last time it happened (on a big, open beach, of all places), my arm swelled up to the size of my thigh.
We use beeswax to make pysanky – those intricately-decorated Ukrainian Easter eggs. It’s much harder to find these days.
I don’t know much about different kinds of honey, but I do know I have severe reactions to bee stings! The last time it happened (on a big, open beach, of all places), my arm swelled up to the size of my thigh.
We use beeswax to make pysanky – those intricately-decorated Ukrainian Easter eggs. It’s much harder to find these days.
Years ago, some bees made a hive in my daughter’s bedroom wall. We realized this when the occasional bee wandered (accidentally, I assume) into her room. They had swarmed to our place from some hives across the road, and a hole in the siding made a perfect entrance. We had some beekeepers come and move them (they use a very cool vacuum of sorts) to a location elsewhere. We got to keep the honey and comb… The honey was very good, a little sharper-tasting than commercial honey. We had to pick out the occasional carcass of a bee. One of my relatives keeps bees and absolutely loves it. They are truly fabulous creatures.
Years ago, some bees made a hive in my daughter’s bedroom wall. We realized this when the occasional bee wandered (accidentally, I assume) into her room. They had swarmed to our place from some hives across the road, and a hole in the siding made a perfect entrance. We had some beekeepers come and move them (they use a very cool vacuum of sorts) to a location elsewhere. We got to keep the honey and comb… The honey was very good, a little sharper-tasting than commercial honey. We had to pick out the occasional carcass of a bee. One of my relatives keeps bees and absolutely loves it. They are truly fabulous creatures.
Years ago, some bees made a hive in my daughter’s bedroom wall. We realized this when the occasional bee wandered (accidentally, I assume) into her room. They had swarmed to our place from some hives across the road, and a hole in the siding made a perfect entrance. We had some beekeepers come and move them (they use a very cool vacuum of sorts) to a location elsewhere. We got to keep the honey and comb… The honey was very good, a little sharper-tasting than commercial honey. We had to pick out the occasional carcass of a bee. One of my relatives keeps bees and absolutely loves it. They are truly fabulous creatures.
Years ago, some bees made a hive in my daughter’s bedroom wall. We realized this when the occasional bee wandered (accidentally, I assume) into her room. They had swarmed to our place from some hives across the road, and a hole in the siding made a perfect entrance. We had some beekeepers come and move them (they use a very cool vacuum of sorts) to a location elsewhere. We got to keep the honey and comb… The honey was very good, a little sharper-tasting than commercial honey. We had to pick out the occasional carcass of a bee. One of my relatives keeps bees and absolutely loves it. They are truly fabulous creatures.
Years ago, some bees made a hive in my daughter’s bedroom wall. We realized this when the occasional bee wandered (accidentally, I assume) into her room. They had swarmed to our place from some hives across the road, and a hole in the siding made a perfect entrance. We had some beekeepers come and move them (they use a very cool vacuum of sorts) to a location elsewhere. We got to keep the honey and comb… The honey was very good, a little sharper-tasting than commercial honey. We had to pick out the occasional carcass of a bee. One of my relatives keeps bees and absolutely loves it. They are truly fabulous creatures.
Love that you found a cave painting! How fascinating…
My favorite honey is fireweed, preferably harvested around Mt. St. Helen’s.
Fun article, Joanna. Thanks!
Love that you found a cave painting! How fascinating…
My favorite honey is fireweed, preferably harvested around Mt. St. Helen’s.
Fun article, Joanna. Thanks!
Love that you found a cave painting! How fascinating…
My favorite honey is fireweed, preferably harvested around Mt. St. Helen’s.
Fun article, Joanna. Thanks!
Love that you found a cave painting! How fascinating…
My favorite honey is fireweed, preferably harvested around Mt. St. Helen’s.
Fun article, Joanna. Thanks!
Love that you found a cave painting! How fascinating…
My favorite honey is fireweed, preferably harvested around Mt. St. Helen’s.
Fun article, Joanna. Thanks!
I live in Northwest Ohio where the most commonly found honey is clover honey. It is a light colored honey that is great for sweetening everything from tea and toast to ganache (in place of corn syrup). In our area, we have at least 2 apiaries that sell raw local honey which can be used as a homeopathic remedy for pollen allergies. Because I live in a small rural community (no matter where you live there, you are never further than 2 blocks from a corn or bean field), I am always happy to see the bees busily going about their daily tasks. Without these small winged wonders, there would be no harvest in the fall.
I live in Northwest Ohio where the most commonly found honey is clover honey. It is a light colored honey that is great for sweetening everything from tea and toast to ganache (in place of corn syrup). In our area, we have at least 2 apiaries that sell raw local honey which can be used as a homeopathic remedy for pollen allergies. Because I live in a small rural community (no matter where you live there, you are never further than 2 blocks from a corn or bean field), I am always happy to see the bees busily going about their daily tasks. Without these small winged wonders, there would be no harvest in the fall.
I live in Northwest Ohio where the most commonly found honey is clover honey. It is a light colored honey that is great for sweetening everything from tea and toast to ganache (in place of corn syrup). In our area, we have at least 2 apiaries that sell raw local honey which can be used as a homeopathic remedy for pollen allergies. Because I live in a small rural community (no matter where you live there, you are never further than 2 blocks from a corn or bean field), I am always happy to see the bees busily going about their daily tasks. Without these small winged wonders, there would be no harvest in the fall.
I live in Northwest Ohio where the most commonly found honey is clover honey. It is a light colored honey that is great for sweetening everything from tea and toast to ganache (in place of corn syrup). In our area, we have at least 2 apiaries that sell raw local honey which can be used as a homeopathic remedy for pollen allergies. Because I live in a small rural community (no matter where you live there, you are never further than 2 blocks from a corn or bean field), I am always happy to see the bees busily going about their daily tasks. Without these small winged wonders, there would be no harvest in the fall.
I live in Northwest Ohio where the most commonly found honey is clover honey. It is a light colored honey that is great for sweetening everything from tea and toast to ganache (in place of corn syrup). In our area, we have at least 2 apiaries that sell raw local honey which can be used as a homeopathic remedy for pollen allergies. Because I live in a small rural community (no matter where you live there, you are never further than 2 blocks from a corn or bean field), I am always happy to see the bees busily going about their daily tasks. Without these small winged wonders, there would be no harvest in the fall.
Local honey – for my allergies is my favorite. I do not live in an area with the honey I used to love – timothy hay honey. Wonderful.
Local honey – for my allergies is my favorite. I do not live in an area with the honey I used to love – timothy hay honey. Wonderful.
Local honey – for my allergies is my favorite. I do not live in an area with the honey I used to love – timothy hay honey. Wonderful.
Local honey – for my allergies is my favorite. I do not live in an area with the honey I used to love – timothy hay honey. Wonderful.
Local honey – for my allergies is my favorite. I do not live in an area with the honey I used to love – timothy hay honey. Wonderful.
My favorite, for historical and mystery purposes, is ‘mad honey’ described by Xenephon.
My favorite, for historical and mystery purposes, is ‘mad honey’ described by Xenephon.
My favorite, for historical and mystery purposes, is ‘mad honey’ described by Xenephon.
My favorite, for historical and mystery purposes, is ‘mad honey’ described by Xenephon.
My favorite, for historical and mystery purposes, is ‘mad honey’ described by Xenephon.
Lovely post
I stitch with the wife in a beekeeping family from Nebraska. I love their honey better than any other I’ve tasted. They don’t move their bees from spot to spot, so I have to assume the local growing in their area produces just the correct taste for me.
Lovely post
I stitch with the wife in a beekeeping family from Nebraska. I love their honey better than any other I’ve tasted. They don’t move their bees from spot to spot, so I have to assume the local growing in their area produces just the correct taste for me.
Lovely post
I stitch with the wife in a beekeeping family from Nebraska. I love their honey better than any other I’ve tasted. They don’t move their bees from spot to spot, so I have to assume the local growing in their area produces just the correct taste for me.
Lovely post
I stitch with the wife in a beekeeping family from Nebraska. I love their honey better than any other I’ve tasted. They don’t move their bees from spot to spot, so I have to assume the local growing in their area produces just the correct taste for me.
Lovely post
I stitch with the wife in a beekeeping family from Nebraska. I love their honey better than any other I’ve tasted. They don’t move their bees from spot to spot, so I have to assume the local growing in their area produces just the correct taste for me.
Woodworkers also use beeswax — when I kept bees I always saved wax for a sewing friend and a woodturner friend.
Woodworkers also use beeswax — when I kept bees I always saved wax for a sewing friend and a woodturner friend.
Woodworkers also use beeswax — when I kept bees I always saved wax for a sewing friend and a woodturner friend.
Woodworkers also use beeswax — when I kept bees I always saved wax for a sewing friend and a woodturner friend.
Woodworkers also use beeswax — when I kept bees I always saved wax for a sewing friend and a woodturner friend.
Sonya, try beekeepers supply places — they’ll have wax. And if you get to know a beekeeper, they might swap you some wax for a gorgeous pysanky egg.
You need to watch that bee sting reaction — it can build to a full-blown allergy.
Sonya, try beekeepers supply places — they’ll have wax. And if you get to know a beekeeper, they might swap you some wax for a gorgeous pysanky egg.
You need to watch that bee sting reaction — it can build to a full-blown allergy.
Sonya, try beekeepers supply places — they’ll have wax. And if you get to know a beekeeper, they might swap you some wax for a gorgeous pysanky egg.
You need to watch that bee sting reaction — it can build to a full-blown allergy.
Sonya, try beekeepers supply places — they’ll have wax. And if you get to know a beekeeper, they might swap you some wax for a gorgeous pysanky egg.
You need to watch that bee sting reaction — it can build to a full-blown allergy.
Sonya, try beekeepers supply places — they’ll have wax. And if you get to know a beekeeper, they might swap you some wax for a gorgeous pysanky egg.
You need to watch that bee sting reaction — it can build to a full-blown allergy.
My favorite honey was that made by my dad’s bees, and for a while my bees. Beekeeping runs in my family, and my grandpop always had masses of thyme around his hives, which makes for lovely honey. But Dad’s was the best, because it was made from the flowers in suburban gardens, and coastal tea-tree, and lots of thyme in dad’s garden as well.
I don’t keep bees any more (alas) but our honey was stronger flavored than most bought honey, and more complex. Utterly delicious. I still miss it.
My favorite honey was that made by my dad’s bees, and for a while my bees. Beekeeping runs in my family, and my grandpop always had masses of thyme around his hives, which makes for lovely honey. But Dad’s was the best, because it was made from the flowers in suburban gardens, and coastal tea-tree, and lots of thyme in dad’s garden as well.
I don’t keep bees any more (alas) but our honey was stronger flavored than most bought honey, and more complex. Utterly delicious. I still miss it.
My favorite honey was that made by my dad’s bees, and for a while my bees. Beekeeping runs in my family, and my grandpop always had masses of thyme around his hives, which makes for lovely honey. But Dad’s was the best, because it was made from the flowers in suburban gardens, and coastal tea-tree, and lots of thyme in dad’s garden as well.
I don’t keep bees any more (alas) but our honey was stronger flavored than most bought honey, and more complex. Utterly delicious. I still miss it.
My favorite honey was that made by my dad’s bees, and for a while my bees. Beekeeping runs in my family, and my grandpop always had masses of thyme around his hives, which makes for lovely honey. But Dad’s was the best, because it was made from the flowers in suburban gardens, and coastal tea-tree, and lots of thyme in dad’s garden as well.
I don’t keep bees any more (alas) but our honey was stronger flavored than most bought honey, and more complex. Utterly delicious. I still miss it.
My favorite honey was that made by my dad’s bees, and for a while my bees. Beekeeping runs in my family, and my grandpop always had masses of thyme around his hives, which makes for lovely honey. But Dad’s was the best, because it was made from the flowers in suburban gardens, and coastal tea-tree, and lots of thyme in dad’s garden as well.
I don’t keep bees any more (alas) but our honey was stronger flavored than most bought honey, and more complex. Utterly delicious. I still miss it.
This is so cool.
I’m a grump, grump I have to sew on a button where did I put that danged sewing kit kinda person and I didn’t know this.
Quite wonderful.
This is so cool.
I’m a grump, grump I have to sew on a button where did I put that danged sewing kit kinda person and I didn’t know this.
Quite wonderful.
This is so cool.
I’m a grump, grump I have to sew on a button where did I put that danged sewing kit kinda person and I didn’t know this.
Quite wonderful.
This is so cool.
I’m a grump, grump I have to sew on a button where did I put that danged sewing kit kinda person and I didn’t know this.
Quite wonderful.
This is so cool.
I’m a grump, grump I have to sew on a button where did I put that danged sewing kit kinda person and I didn’t know this.
Quite wonderful.
I get beeswax candles sometimes, usually as gifts. They smell just lovely, burning.
I light them as a special treat to myself at the Winter Solstice or Christmas. Or on St Ludia’s Day. We do that in my family and it’s pretty cool.
Pysanky sounds intricate and fun. I’m unlikely to actually DO it, you understand, but I can dream.
I get beeswax candles sometimes, usually as gifts. They smell just lovely, burning.
I light them as a special treat to myself at the Winter Solstice or Christmas. Or on St Ludia’s Day. We do that in my family and it’s pretty cool.
Pysanky sounds intricate and fun. I’m unlikely to actually DO it, you understand, but I can dream.
I get beeswax candles sometimes, usually as gifts. They smell just lovely, burning.
I light them as a special treat to myself at the Winter Solstice or Christmas. Or on St Ludia’s Day. We do that in my family and it’s pretty cool.
Pysanky sounds intricate and fun. I’m unlikely to actually DO it, you understand, but I can dream.
I get beeswax candles sometimes, usually as gifts. They smell just lovely, burning.
I light them as a special treat to myself at the Winter Solstice or Christmas. Or on St Ludia’s Day. We do that in my family and it’s pretty cool.
Pysanky sounds intricate and fun. I’m unlikely to actually DO it, you understand, but I can dream.
I get beeswax candles sometimes, usually as gifts. They smell just lovely, burning.
I light them as a special treat to myself at the Winter Solstice or Christmas. Or on St Ludia’s Day. We do that in my family and it’s pretty cool.
Pysanky sounds intricate and fun. I’m unlikely to actually DO it, you understand, but I can dream.
Your whole house, transformed into a beehive.
I love the thought of a bee vacuum cleaner and am warmed by the knowledge they saved the bees.
“Who you gonna call?
dah dah
BEE KEEPERS”
Your whole house, transformed into a beehive.
I love the thought of a bee vacuum cleaner and am warmed by the knowledge they saved the bees.
“Who you gonna call?
dah dah
BEE KEEPERS”
Your whole house, transformed into a beehive.
I love the thought of a bee vacuum cleaner and am warmed by the knowledge they saved the bees.
“Who you gonna call?
dah dah
BEE KEEPERS”
Your whole house, transformed into a beehive.
I love the thought of a bee vacuum cleaner and am warmed by the knowledge they saved the bees.
“Who you gonna call?
dah dah
BEE KEEPERS”
Your whole house, transformed into a beehive.
I love the thought of a bee vacuum cleaner and am warmed by the knowledge they saved the bees.
“Who you gonna call?
dah dah
BEE KEEPERS”
I have never heard of Fireweed Honey, but now I will keep an eye out for it.
The cave painting was what made me think of doing a post on honeybees. It works that way sometimes. You see something …
I have never heard of Fireweed Honey, but now I will keep an eye out for it.
The cave painting was what made me think of doing a post on honeybees. It works that way sometimes. You see something …
I have never heard of Fireweed Honey, but now I will keep an eye out for it.
The cave painting was what made me think of doing a post on honeybees. It works that way sometimes. You see something …
I have never heard of Fireweed Honey, but now I will keep an eye out for it.
The cave painting was what made me think of doing a post on honeybees. It works that way sometimes. You see something …
I have never heard of Fireweed Honey, but now I will keep an eye out for it.
The cave painting was what made me think of doing a post on honeybees. It works that way sometimes. You see something …
I don’t know how long humans have been aware of the work bees do among the flowers. I like to think we have respect for them nowadays, especially in farming places.
I love clover honey. It’s kinda my fallback sort.
I don’t know how long humans have been aware of the work bees do among the flowers. I like to think we have respect for them nowadays, especially in farming places.
I love clover honey. It’s kinda my fallback sort.
I don’t know how long humans have been aware of the work bees do among the flowers. I like to think we have respect for them nowadays, especially in farming places.
I love clover honey. It’s kinda my fallback sort.
I don’t know how long humans have been aware of the work bees do among the flowers. I like to think we have respect for them nowadays, especially in farming places.
I love clover honey. It’s kinda my fallback sort.
I don’t know how long humans have been aware of the work bees do among the flowers. I like to think we have respect for them nowadays, especially in farming places.
I love clover honey. It’s kinda my fallback sort.
I hear a lot about local raw honey being good for allergies. I hear this so often it’s likely there’s something in it.
My father use to have hives down near a big ole swamp. His honey was dark and strong flaovred. Almost like molasses. But I like it.
Don’t know whereas I’ve ever tried timothy hay honey. I will keep an eye on it.
I hear a lot about local raw honey being good for allergies. I hear this so often it’s likely there’s something in it.
My father use to have hives down near a big ole swamp. His honey was dark and strong flaovred. Almost like molasses. But I like it.
Don’t know whereas I’ve ever tried timothy hay honey. I will keep an eye on it.
I hear a lot about local raw honey being good for allergies. I hear this so often it’s likely there’s something in it.
My father use to have hives down near a big ole swamp. His honey was dark and strong flaovred. Almost like molasses. But I like it.
Don’t know whereas I’ve ever tried timothy hay honey. I will keep an eye on it.
I hear a lot about local raw honey being good for allergies. I hear this so often it’s likely there’s something in it.
My father use to have hives down near a big ole swamp. His honey was dark and strong flaovred. Almost like molasses. But I like it.
Don’t know whereas I’ve ever tried timothy hay honey. I will keep an eye on it.
I hear a lot about local raw honey being good for allergies. I hear this so often it’s likely there’s something in it.
My father use to have hives down near a big ole swamp. His honey was dark and strong flaovred. Almost like molasses. But I like it.
Don’t know whereas I’ve ever tried timothy hay honey. I will keep an eye on it.
I have heard of this.
(For the home gamers, it’s at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grayanotoxin )
This always seemed sneaky and unfair to me. Poison honey. I mean, what’s next? Eggs that attack? Apples that say nasty things about you behind your back?
I have heard of this.
(For the home gamers, it’s at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grayanotoxin )
This always seemed sneaky and unfair to me. Poison honey. I mean, what’s next? Eggs that attack? Apples that say nasty things about you behind your back?
I have heard of this.
(For the home gamers, it’s at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grayanotoxin )
This always seemed sneaky and unfair to me. Poison honey. I mean, what’s next? Eggs that attack? Apples that say nasty things about you behind your back?
I have heard of this.
(For the home gamers, it’s at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grayanotoxin )
This always seemed sneaky and unfair to me. Poison honey. I mean, what’s next? Eggs that attack? Apples that say nasty things about you behind your back?
I have heard of this.
(For the home gamers, it’s at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grayanotoxin )
This always seemed sneaky and unfair to me. Poison honey. I mean, what’s next? Eggs that attack? Apples that say nasty things about you behind your back?
It makes sense that a year’s run of honey in one place would be harmonious and good tasting.
Also, I think farmers can select a particular tranche of honey combs in the hive, by color and placement, that were all laid down at the same time and contain the flowers in bloom one week, perhaps.
So maybe your friend takes out the “Early June Vintage” of honey for her guests, with its hints of clover and violets, daffodils and crocus.
It makes sense that a year’s run of honey in one place would be harmonious and good tasting.
Also, I think farmers can select a particular tranche of honey combs in the hive, by color and placement, that were all laid down at the same time and contain the flowers in bloom one week, perhaps.
So maybe your friend takes out the “Early June Vintage” of honey for her guests, with its hints of clover and violets, daffodils and crocus.
It makes sense that a year’s run of honey in one place would be harmonious and good tasting.
Also, I think farmers can select a particular tranche of honey combs in the hive, by color and placement, that were all laid down at the same time and contain the flowers in bloom one week, perhaps.
So maybe your friend takes out the “Early June Vintage” of honey for her guests, with its hints of clover and violets, daffodils and crocus.
It makes sense that a year’s run of honey in one place would be harmonious and good tasting.
Also, I think farmers can select a particular tranche of honey combs in the hive, by color and placement, that were all laid down at the same time and contain the flowers in bloom one week, perhaps.
So maybe your friend takes out the “Early June Vintage” of honey for her guests, with its hints of clover and violets, daffodils and crocus.
It makes sense that a year’s run of honey in one place would be harmonious and good tasting.
Also, I think farmers can select a particular tranche of honey combs in the hive, by color and placement, that were all laid down at the same time and contain the flowers in bloom one week, perhaps.
So maybe your friend takes out the “Early June Vintage” of honey for her guests, with its hints of clover and violets, daffodils and crocus.
So good and cool of you.
Everybody loves a beekeepr.
So good and cool of you.
Everybody loves a beekeepr.
So good and cool of you.
Everybody loves a beekeepr.
So good and cool of you.
Everybody loves a beekeepr.
So good and cool of you.
Everybody loves a beekeepr.
For those who need beeswax for pysanky, and are curious about the art. This group has been around for so long I remember writing to the group, mailing checks, and getting my dye tablets back. The right vegetable dyes were hard to find in the US, if you didn’t have a local community. (In hindsight, I probably did, but I don’t think I ever told my elderly next door neighbor that I was attempting what any good Ukrainian eight year old once could do with one arm tied behind her back.)
I have no Ukrainian heritage that I know of–I just love the eggs.
http://www.ukrainiangiftshop.com/
For those who need beeswax for pysanky, and are curious about the art. This group has been around for so long I remember writing to the group, mailing checks, and getting my dye tablets back. The right vegetable dyes were hard to find in the US, if you didn’t have a local community. (In hindsight, I probably did, but I don’t think I ever told my elderly next door neighbor that I was attempting what any good Ukrainian eight year old once could do with one arm tied behind her back.)
I have no Ukrainian heritage that I know of–I just love the eggs.
http://www.ukrainiangiftshop.com/
For those who need beeswax for pysanky, and are curious about the art. This group has been around for so long I remember writing to the group, mailing checks, and getting my dye tablets back. The right vegetable dyes were hard to find in the US, if you didn’t have a local community. (In hindsight, I probably did, but I don’t think I ever told my elderly next door neighbor that I was attempting what any good Ukrainian eight year old once could do with one arm tied behind her back.)
I have no Ukrainian heritage that I know of–I just love the eggs.
http://www.ukrainiangiftshop.com/
For those who need beeswax for pysanky, and are curious about the art. This group has been around for so long I remember writing to the group, mailing checks, and getting my dye tablets back. The right vegetable dyes were hard to find in the US, if you didn’t have a local community. (In hindsight, I probably did, but I don’t think I ever told my elderly next door neighbor that I was attempting what any good Ukrainian eight year old once could do with one arm tied behind her back.)
I have no Ukrainian heritage that I know of–I just love the eggs.
http://www.ukrainiangiftshop.com/
For those who need beeswax for pysanky, and are curious about the art. This group has been around for so long I remember writing to the group, mailing checks, and getting my dye tablets back. The right vegetable dyes were hard to find in the US, if you didn’t have a local community. (In hindsight, I probably did, but I don’t think I ever told my elderly next door neighbor that I was attempting what any good Ukrainian eight year old once could do with one arm tied behind her back.)
I have no Ukrainian heritage that I know of–I just love the eggs.
http://www.ukrainiangiftshop.com/
I’m very late in reading this post, but I do love honey! Whenever I travel somewhere I end up buying some, which makes a great souvenir. It’s hard to pick a favorite, but I had some very dark and strong tasting chestnut honey from Italy which was wonderul. And I also love orange blosson honey, which usually comes from Florida. Yemen also has some wonderful and very expensive honeys. It probably comes from desert plants like acacia.
I’m very late in reading this post, but I do love honey! Whenever I travel somewhere I end up buying some, which makes a great souvenir. It’s hard to pick a favorite, but I had some very dark and strong tasting chestnut honey from Italy which was wonderul. And I also love orange blosson honey, which usually comes from Florida. Yemen also has some wonderful and very expensive honeys. It probably comes from desert plants like acacia.
I’m very late in reading this post, but I do love honey! Whenever I travel somewhere I end up buying some, which makes a great souvenir. It’s hard to pick a favorite, but I had some very dark and strong tasting chestnut honey from Italy which was wonderul. And I also love orange blosson honey, which usually comes from Florida. Yemen also has some wonderful and very expensive honeys. It probably comes from desert plants like acacia.
I’m very late in reading this post, but I do love honey! Whenever I travel somewhere I end up buying some, which makes a great souvenir. It’s hard to pick a favorite, but I had some very dark and strong tasting chestnut honey from Italy which was wonderul. And I also love orange blosson honey, which usually comes from Florida. Yemen also has some wonderful and very expensive honeys. It probably comes from desert plants like acacia.
I’m very late in reading this post, but I do love honey! Whenever I travel somewhere I end up buying some, which makes a great souvenir. It’s hard to pick a favorite, but I had some very dark and strong tasting chestnut honey from Italy which was wonderul. And I also love orange blosson honey, which usually comes from Florida. Yemen also has some wonderful and very expensive honeys. It probably comes from desert plants like acacia.
Sounds like wonderful honeys. I love acacia. And I’ve frequently bought orange blossom.
Right now I have some perfectly acceptable honey that’s labelled “orange blossom”. I tried it and it doesn’t in the least taste like orange blossoms. It seems to come from here in Virginia. I rather think I’ve been scammed.
The chestnut honey I’ve never heard of and it sounds interesting.
Sounds like wonderful honeys. I love acacia. And I’ve frequently bought orange blossom.
Right now I have some perfectly acceptable honey that’s labelled “orange blossom”. I tried it and it doesn’t in the least taste like orange blossoms. It seems to come from here in Virginia. I rather think I’ve been scammed.
The chestnut honey I’ve never heard of and it sounds interesting.
Sounds like wonderful honeys. I love acacia. And I’ve frequently bought orange blossom.
Right now I have some perfectly acceptable honey that’s labelled “orange blossom”. I tried it and it doesn’t in the least taste like orange blossoms. It seems to come from here in Virginia. I rather think I’ve been scammed.
The chestnut honey I’ve never heard of and it sounds interesting.
Sounds like wonderful honeys. I love acacia. And I’ve frequently bought orange blossom.
Right now I have some perfectly acceptable honey that’s labelled “orange blossom”. I tried it and it doesn’t in the least taste like orange blossoms. It seems to come from here in Virginia. I rather think I’ve been scammed.
The chestnut honey I’ve never heard of and it sounds interesting.
Sounds like wonderful honeys. I love acacia. And I’ve frequently bought orange blossom.
Right now I have some perfectly acceptable honey that’s labelled “orange blossom”. I tried it and it doesn’t in the least taste like orange blossoms. It seems to come from here in Virginia. I rather think I’ve been scammed.
The chestnut honey I’ve never heard of and it sounds interesting.
Thank-you for the history lesson. Georgian, Regency, Victorian women would have also been aware of the medicinal uses of honey. It has marvelous antimicrobial properties. The Strong Women we all love to read about would have it on hand for culinary and sewing purposes, but also medicinal purposes. A little honey in tea will soothe a sore throat. Say if a gentleman were to come upon highwaymen and be shot. The nearest help was a cottage nearby were a woman, who is resistant to the vapors, would treat the wounds with honey. The honey prevents the wound from turning septic. Whether it is a bullet or a wound from ablade, honey’s binding power will help slow the bleeding with or without stitching.
Thank-you for the history lesson. Georgian, Regency, Victorian women would have also been aware of the medicinal uses of honey. It has marvelous antimicrobial properties. The Strong Women we all love to read about would have it on hand for culinary and sewing purposes, but also medicinal purposes. A little honey in tea will soothe a sore throat. Say if a gentleman were to come upon highwaymen and be shot. The nearest help was a cottage nearby were a woman, who is resistant to the vapors, would treat the wounds with honey. The honey prevents the wound from turning septic. Whether it is a bullet or a wound from ablade, honey’s binding power will help slow the bleeding with or without stitching.
Thank-you for the history lesson. Georgian, Regency, Victorian women would have also been aware of the medicinal uses of honey. It has marvelous antimicrobial properties. The Strong Women we all love to read about would have it on hand for culinary and sewing purposes, but also medicinal purposes. A little honey in tea will soothe a sore throat. Say if a gentleman were to come upon highwaymen and be shot. The nearest help was a cottage nearby were a woman, who is resistant to the vapors, would treat the wounds with honey. The honey prevents the wound from turning septic. Whether it is a bullet or a wound from ablade, honey’s binding power will help slow the bleeding with or without stitching.
Thank-you for the history lesson. Georgian, Regency, Victorian women would have also been aware of the medicinal uses of honey. It has marvelous antimicrobial properties. The Strong Women we all love to read about would have it on hand for culinary and sewing purposes, but also medicinal purposes. A little honey in tea will soothe a sore throat. Say if a gentleman were to come upon highwaymen and be shot. The nearest help was a cottage nearby were a woman, who is resistant to the vapors, would treat the wounds with honey. The honey prevents the wound from turning septic. Whether it is a bullet or a wound from ablade, honey’s binding power will help slow the bleeding with or without stitching.
Thank-you for the history lesson. Georgian, Regency, Victorian women would have also been aware of the medicinal uses of honey. It has marvelous antimicrobial properties. The Strong Women we all love to read about would have it on hand for culinary and sewing purposes, but also medicinal purposes. A little honey in tea will soothe a sore throat. Say if a gentleman were to come upon highwaymen and be shot. The nearest help was a cottage nearby were a woman, who is resistant to the vapors, would treat the wounds with honey. The honey prevents the wound from turning septic. Whether it is a bullet or a wound from ablade, honey’s binding power will help slow the bleeding with or without stitching.
So true.
I haven’t had a “healer” heroine yet. Who knows? Maybe someday.
So true.
I haven’t had a “healer” heroine yet. Who knows? Maybe someday.
So true.
I haven’t had a “healer” heroine yet. Who knows? Maybe someday.
So true.
I haven’t had a “healer” heroine yet. Who knows? Maybe someday.
So true.
I haven’t had a “healer” heroine yet. Who knows? Maybe someday.
Sometimes you don’t need the actual heritage. Sometimes it just “clicks” with something inside you.
Sometimes you don’t need the actual heritage. Sometimes it just “clicks” with something inside you.
Sometimes you don’t need the actual heritage. Sometimes it just “clicks” with something inside you.
Sometimes you don’t need the actual heritage. Sometimes it just “clicks” with something inside you.
Sometimes you don’t need the actual heritage. Sometimes it just “clicks” with something inside you.