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National Pollinator Week June 17-23

Pollinator

National Pollinator Week is a Sweet Celebration
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National Pollinator Week officially kicks off June 17th, and we couldn’t be more excited to spend an entire week celebrating all pollinators for the great work that they do to keep our world beautiful and our meals delicious!

National Pollinator Week’s history began just over a decade ago when the U.S. Senate designated that a week in June be dubbed “National Pollinator Week,” bringing about greater awareness of the plight of our declining pollinators. Along with the humble honey bee, National Pollinator Week Continue reading National Pollinator Week June 17-23

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Citrus Fruit Salad with Honey Mint Lime Syrup

citrus fruit salad

Citrus Fruit Salad is a refreshing dish that is easy to make. With the help of pollinators that visit millions of blossoms and pollinate a wide range of crops, including the grapefruit and oranges that make up our Citrus Fruit Salad with Honey Mint Lime Syrup. This refreshing dish is certainly one we will be enjoying all summer long!

YIELD: Makes 6 servings

INGREDIENTS

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Honey Garlic Slow Cooker Ribs

Grab some napkins and make these super easy, super delicious Slow Cooker Honey-Garlic Baby Back Ribs! We couldn’t get enough of these Slow Cooker Honey-Garlic Baby Back Ribs! The recipe is a perfect balance of sweet and smoky flavors. These Slow Cooker Honey-Garlic Baby Back Ribs couldn’t be any easier to make – or any more delicious! The recipe for these ribs is below. Plus watch how we make them, click to view the video below. NOTE: The video will open in a new Tab.

Ingredients

for 3 servings

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Antibiotic Properties of Honey and How to Use it to Get Better Fast

Antibiotic Properties of honey

Antibiotics (the chemically produced kind) have been in the news lately because of their tremendous overuse and over-prescription by doctors.  Drugs that used to be standard treatments for bacterial infections are now less effective or don’t work at all. When an antibiotic drug no longer has an effect on a certain strain of bacteria, those bacteria are said to be antibiotic resistant. Fortunately, honey has natural antibiotic properties without any of the negative side effects of the synthetic versions.   In addition, it doesn’t appear to be susceptible to resistance by bacteria meaning you can continue to use it over time. Continue reading Antibiotic Properties of Honey and How to Use it to Get Better Fast

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Bee’s job. Watch National Geographic Movie

Bee's Job

Every honeybee has a job to do. Some are nurses who take care of the brood; some are janitors who clean the hive; others are foragers who gather pollen to make honey. Collectively, honeybees are able to achieve an incredible level of sophistication, especially considering their brains are only the size of sesame seeds. But how are these bee’s job divvied up, and where do bees learn the skills to execute them?

Unlike in Jerry Seinfeld’s “Bee Movie,” real honeybees don’t go to college and get a job assignment from an aptitude officer upon graduation. Instead, they rely on a mixture of genetics, hormones, and situational necessity to direct them. Honeybees are born into an occupation, and then their duties continually shift in response to changing conditions in the hive.

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Honeycomb in Your Recipes – 4 Ways

Honeycomb

Honeycomb, the golden waxy secretions of the honeybees are edible?

Yes, together with the hexagonal, honey-filled cylinders, the honeycomb is not only perfectly safe to eat, it is stylish and tantalizing! In fact, honey aficionados, connoisseurs and chefs highly value comb honey in their recipes.

The enchanting honeycomb is sturdy yet fragile. It is composed of hexagonal cells with walls that are only 2/1000th of an inch thick and yet capable of supporting 25 times its own weight. The most distinctive feature of honeycomb is perhaps its texture – chewy from the wax and a little crunchy from bits of sweet crystallized honey. Continue reading Honeycomb in Your Recipes – 4 Ways

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World’s largest bee rediscovered

World's largest bee

One of the rarest insects in the world, the Wallace’s giant bee, has been found in Indonesia.

Above © Clay Bolt | One of the first images of a living Wallace’s giant bee, Megachile plutois, compared to a European honeybee.

In 1858, British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace discovered a tremendous bee while exploring the Indonesian island of Bacan. With a wingspan of two and a half inches – as long as a human thumb – and four times larger than a European honeybee, Wallace described the female as “a large black wasp-like insect, with immense jaws like a stag-beetle.” And thus, the Wallace’s giant bee (Megachile pluto) entered the world of scientific literature.

Now recognized as the world’s largest bee, despite its enormous size it wasn’t seen again until 1981 when entomologist Adam Messer rediscovered it in Indonesia. Messer’s observations of its behaviors – like how it used its giant jaws to gather resin and wood for its nests – provided some insight, but still, the bee remained generally elusive. It wasn’t seen again for decades, making it the “holy grail” of bees. Continue reading World’s largest bee rediscovered

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Bee Health Needs Protection

Bee Health

Bees Deserve the Buzz

 

Everyone knows honey bees make honey, but their contributions hardly end there – one-third of the U.S. diet is derived from insect-pollinated plants and honey bees are responsible for an impressive 80 percent of that process. Bees are critical to the health of our planet and food chain, so Pahrump Honey Company is careful to apply best practices that support bee health. Continue reading Bee Health Needs Protection

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When stored properly, honey can last for centuries.

Store Honey

Experts from the National Honey Board explain that honey stays edible for decades, even centuries — but there’s a catch. Nature’s natural sweetener is highly susceptible to physical and chemical changes, and if stored incorrectly can darken, lose its aroma, flavor, and/or crystallize.

Still, that’s not to say the honey becomes inedible. As per the National Honey Board, crystallization is a natural process in which the glucose in honey precipitates out of the liquid honey. You can still consume it, but if the crystallization bothers you, spokespersons from the board says that placing the honey jar in warm water and stirring will dissolve the crystals.

The story of honey is older than history itself. An 8,000-year-old cave painting1 in Spain depicts honey harvesting, and we know it’s been used for food, medicine and more by cultures all over the world since.

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