Category Archives: Hive Products
Honey Food Stuff
I was sorting a few pictures and ran across some honey/bee foodie things I thought I’d share. When people find out that you work with bees, you inevitably end up receiving bee gifts. Wasp-shaped butter trays, pollen-encrusted soap bars, stingers … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, or lack thereof, Hive Products, Honey
Tagged Benny the Bee, candy, chocolate, food, honey
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A Kardashian and her Honey
This caught my eye today. I know it’s junk news, and with honey bees everywhere going extinct and dying or maybe just disappearing and hiding and not dying, or whatever, it’s refreshing to know that Kourtney Kardashian uses honey. To … Continue reading
Posted in Apitherapy, Culture, or lack thereof, Hive Products, Honey, Humour, Strange, Odd Stuff
Tagged honey, Kourtney Kardashian, manuka
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Saving Honey
Brag time. We just got home from the big Calgary science fair competition. My 13-year-old won three awards. Here’s the kicker: his project was called Saving Honey with Sound. His experiment was based on sending ultrasonic energy waves into combs … Continue reading
Posted in Comb Honey, Hive Products, Honey, Outreach, Tools and Gadgets
Tagged Calgary, canola, economics, granulation, science fairs
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Manuka Recall
For years, I’ve been thinking that manuka honey is over-rated. And maybe overpriced, though every beekeeper’s honey should sell at $80/pound retail, as manuka sometimes does. Why is manuka honey so expensive? It could be partly due to brilliant marketing. … Continue reading
Posted in Apitherapy, Hive Products, Honey
Tagged adulteration, manuka, natural, New Zealand, organic honey
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Honey with Vibes
True story. In a small town along Brazil’s Amazon, there is a warehouse with barrels of honey stacked on pallets. It’s organic honey, certified chemical-free, and it was produced by Africanized bees – the so-called killers of the bee world. … Continue reading
Posted in Apitherapy, Culture, or lack thereof, Hive Products
Tagged bee vibrations, Brazil, homeopathy
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Chinook Honey and Mead
Friends of ours have a honey-wine shop in the town of Okotoks, just a few minutes south of Calgary. They make their own mead from their own honey. They do it really well. Art retired from flying commercial airliners to … Continue reading
Posted in Friends, Hive Products, Honey
Tagged Alberta, Chinook Honey Farm, honey wine, mead, Okotoks
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Burt’s Bee Buzz
Arguably, the most famous beekeeper in all history was an unlikely hippie living off the land in Maine’s remote woodlands. Burt Shavitz died this weekend. He was living the good life, a reclusive member of the back-to-nature, granola-chewing crowd. In … Continue reading
Posted in Hive Products, Movies, People
Tagged Burt Shavitz, Burt's Bees, lip balm, Maine, Roxanne Quimby
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Beetox: Sting relief for tired skin
81-year-old comedian Joan Rivers died last week. The world is now without one of its truly acerbic wits. Ms Rivers loudly paraded her much-sculpted face before crowds, saying that it wasn’t right to pretend she wasn’t getting Botoxed. Lying about … Continue reading
Posted in Apitherapy, Culture, or lack thereof, Hive Products
Tagged Beetox, Botox, Joan Rivers
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Estonian Choco-propolis
Friends bought a chocolate bar for me. Not just any bit of chocolate, of course. They were in eastern Europe and the stuff they found was really interesting. It contained propolis. And tasted like it. Eating chocolate-propolis is not for … Continue reading
Posted in Apitherapy, Culture, or lack thereof, Hive Products
Tagged candy, chocolate, Estonia, patents, propolis
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Fire in the Shop
A couple of weeks ago, a warehouse fire destroyed a bee outfit’s shop at an old kibbutz in Israel. A dozen hives were lost, along with processing equipment and supers. The kibbutz was founded in 1934 by progressives from Poland … Continue reading
