Well, I'm certainly disappointed.
I stick with inorganic honey, it's safer.
Well, I'm certainly disappointed.
Don’t you want local honey so you’ll take in some local pollen for allergy reasons?
No such thing as organic honey. You can’t control where the bees go for nectar.
If you want truly delicious honey, the best bet is either to find a store offering comb honey, or a local honey dealer. Comb honey is an odd treat, and children in particular seem to gobble it down. Local honey dealers are careful to indicate what *kind* of honey they have, as there are subtle flavor differences between clover, orange, wildflower and other types.
Importantly, though very hard to find, there is medicinal honey, which is very unpredictable. Unpasteurized honey *may* contain a whole slew of both antibiotics and anti-inflammatory chemicals, or it may not.
But if it does, it is the almost ideal treatment for gum disease, because it will both kill bacteria, and reduce the inflammation the bacteria hides behind. So you could literally brush your teeth with honey. Unfortunately Pasteurization destroys all these good effects.
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For some reason, I have never even liked honey to begin with.
Trust me....it has all the pollens the bees can gather!
IT AM GOOOOOOD!
‘Keep here - locate local honey on a state by state basis and evaluate your trust of that individual.
http://www.honeyo.com/org-US_State.shtml
Not us though - we’ve more individual contacts than we can provide for.
It is possible to feed your bees pure sugar. I bet there’s no pollen in the honey they produce when this is done.
We buy from The Honeyman here in AZ... the ONLY place for honey!
Idiotic headline mars an otherwise interesting and concern-provoking story.
You may find this thread interesting. You could post some of your pictures and educate the masses.
I stopped ingesting honey when I found out it was bee puke.
even throughout the season the honey from a single hive changes a lot. our backyard hive has lighter honey early, and it gets darker and a little heavier as the season gets later, totally depends on what they are working.
pretty astounding little insects. had a problem recently with the hive being attacked and raided by a wild hive. major battle, many casualties all over the ground, bees fighting. i closed the entrance to the hive down pretty small which gave the hive a chance to mount a defense which worked.
just like humans, why work when you can steal? same in the bee world, you need guards to protect.
Garden Thread ping?
I went to a fast food place and got a meal with some biscuits and two packages of honey.
I As I was eating it, I read the ingredients on the honey packs.
Sugar, high fruitcose corn syrup, honey flavoring, water. It was not honey at all.
Well, no. Otherwise it would have wax, bee parts and other things most people do not care to have on their morning toast mixed in.
It is still honey. This is like saying that tap water isn't water because it isn't exactly what comes from the lake.
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