Category Archives: honey
Kauai Honey and Mead
After our visit with Matt Moore earlier in the week, we stopped by Nani Moon Mead today and met with owner Stephanie Krieger for a 5 flight mead tasting. Stephanie produces small batches of mead using honey and fruit produced … Continue reading
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Buyer Beware
This article from Food Safety News have been making the rounds over the past few days, and has some concerning information for folks buying honey. Nearly 75% of honey sold in stores have been heated and filtered to a point … Continue reading
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Fall Blooms
Knives’ hive has really been packing it away for winter. She now has two 8-frame supers full of the stuff and has started working on the third. I had a really hard time getting the top most super off during … Continue reading
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Tale of Two Honeys
My wife and I spent a lovely few days in Albuquerque, NM last week where we had the pleasure of meeting Chantal Foster and her husband Alex for dinner. Chantal is a local beekeeper in the Duke City, and her … Continue reading
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Blueberry Corn Pancakes
In my mind, nothing goes better with honey than corn bread, but to me this isn’t a very breakfasty type food. Luckily, I found this recipe for delicious blueberry cornmeal pancakes. Recipe: Combine 1 1/2 cup cornmeal, 1/4 cup whole … Continue reading
Worker Bee Honey Label
So I finally got my labels printed for my honey jars. I ordered 1000 of these suckers mainly because the difference between 250 and 1000 is like 20 bucks. Thanks again to Essi Zimm for the awesome label and t-shirt … Continue reading
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Honey Harvest and Scotch Dinner
Even with this drought, Marge’s hive has still been managing to pack on the honey. One of the advantages of having a hive in an urban setting is that people have a variety of flowers in their gardens and often … Continue reading
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BeeSweet Lemonade
A friend of mine sent me this article from the the Westlake Picayune. Mikala Ulmer, a first-grader at Trinity Episcopal School in West Lake Hills, will be selling her special, award-winning lemonade Sunday from noon to 3 p.m. at a stand … Continue reading
Large Marge takes her honey dark…like her men.
I pulled 8 full frames of honey off the hive today. The bee escape worked great, and there were only a handful of girls left in the super that were easily removed. I still don’t have an extractor so I … Continue reading
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Pre-Honey Harvest Prep
I’ll be taking a full super of honey off the hive Sunday, so I went out today to put the bee escape on the hive to make tomorrow’s activities much easier. I did my first and last harvest last fall … Continue reading
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