Beginning about two months ago, I began getting strange emails about the disappearance of pure honey. These messages were coming from consumers of honey, not beekeepers, and they mystified me. Here is an example of an email from last week: Could you please tell me where I can get pure honey without sugar syrup? I […] Read more
This is a serious question. I really want to know what you do with your honey. In the 26,000 comments currently showing on this site, very few mention where all the honey goes. Some beekeepers mention the amount they harvested, maybe 30 pounds, or 80, or 650. But what comes next? I used to think […] Read more
Every now and then I read an article related to beekeeping that truly upsets me. Today, the source of my angst was a conversation about ways to promote honey to potential buyers. Most of the ideas are fine. Beekeepers make statements about their honey that are proven to attract buyers, and in most cases these […] Read more
Far out! I’ve seen pink honey (from candy canes) and red honey (from maraschino cherry juice), but I’ve never seen aqua-green honey until now. Technically, of course, it’s not honey since it wasn’t made from nectar—or at least we don’t think it was made of nectar. Still, it’s a sight to behold. Judy Scher, a […] Read more
The term “raw honey” doesn’t officially mean anything, so it causes a lot of confusion among consumers. Either they want to buy only raw honey, or they want to avoid it entirely. Sadly, the only difference between two packages may be the label. The whole mess reminds me of the “all-natural” debacle: everyone has an […] Read more
Chicken soup is made by dragging a dead chicken through a pot of boiling water. At least, that’s what my father concluded after eating a particularly watered-down version. From what I understand, cannabis honey results from a similar process. After flying over a cannabis plant, honey bees make cannabis honey, right? Close encounters of the […] Read more
It’s apparent from watching honey bees that they enjoy a tasty snack of poison ivy nectar. Having observed this, a reader asked “Is there such a thing as poison ivy honey?” I vaguely remember references to poison ivy honey from way back, but I couldn’t remember the details. According to Honey Plants of North America […] Read more