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When we think of bee forage, we usually think of vegetable plots, row crops, orchards, hedgerows, flower gardens, and meadows. But some of the best bee forage in the world comes in the form of trees—not only fruit trees—but trees like maple, chestnut, willow, basswood, locust, and alder. Some species provide only pollen, some [...]  The links to three great black and white beekeeping videos (movies?) from the 1930s were sent to me by a reader. They are from a reel of film that belonged to the North of Scotland College of Agriculture Beekeeping unit. As you will see, except for those hats, not much has changed around the [...] Honeybee: Lessons from an Accidental Beekeeper by C. Marina Marchese. Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, New York. Copyright © 2009. This review refers to the Kindle edition. Beyond a doubt, I believe the author’s heart was in the right place when she wrote this book. She has an empathy for honey bees and a [...] Phillip over at Mudsongs.org wrote a post titled, “What Makes Honey Taste Bland?” after he purchased a container of local honey that was labeled “Pure liquid Canadian honey — Canada No. 1 White.” He questions why the honey tasted like “a bottle of Elmer’s Glue.” For now I will sidestep the obvious question—how he [...] A lot of press has surrounded a story that recently appeared in Food Safety News. The writer of the piece insisted that 76% of all supermarket honey is not honey at all. The reason? It contains no pollen. And it contains no pollen because it is processed by ultra-filtration. The article claims that ultra-filtration [...] |
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