There are few food combinations closer to the source and local than avocados mixed with honey produced from the blossoms of the exact same avocado trees... #avocadoes#honey#food#beekeeping
Te to ale nanosiły… xD
Pierwszy miód z tego sezonu, nazwa kodowa „Klon, mniszek i inne cuda” 25kg! To połowa z tego co zebrałem w całym zeszłym sezonie!!!!11
A pszczelarz patron straszył, że wszystko kwitnie na raz i miodu nie będzie. :D
Nach fast 10 Jahren Pause habe ich wieder Bienen. Heute hat sich bei uns ein Schwarm gesammelt und ich habe das mal als Zeichen gedeutet, die Imkerausrüstung aus dem Keller zu holen 🐝 #bienen#bienenschwarm#imkerei#honig#beekeeping#bees#honey#beeswarm
How it started How its going
It is just as well that the seeds of Dandelions are so infertile!!! But having deadheaded a great number, we have enough for the first couple of batches of Dandelion ‘honey’ of the season. Goes very well with lots of things, although I love it in yoghurt and porridge.
So, my bees swarmed today. That was an adventure. My friend and I were able to retrieve the swarm from pretty high up in a tree on my property. Bees will swarm when a hive decides to split, usually because the space they're living in is getting too cramped for the number of bees that the local resources can support. In this case it's because we hadn't added additional boxes to expand the space for the hive soon enough, oops.
Enjoying this locally made fizzy #kombucha#drink made by #BabesHoneyFarm in #VictoriaBC - it is absolutely delicious! No bitter after taste. Very smooth & not overly sweet. You can smell & taste the lavender & citrus. I highly recommend this tasty non-alcoholic #beverage 👍
“The feeding places that the bees used to go to [to collect pollen and nectar], such as acacias, paliuruses and oaks were all destroyed. The future is uncertain in beekeeping, there is no place to go, all the places have been destroyed,”
“After the wildfires and the floods, beekeeping has regressed a long way. Bees are disappearing,”
Interested in #honey#bee health? Come do a #PhD in our group in University College Dublin on 'Protecting Irish bees through field trials and genomics-informed strategies'
Primarily supervised by Dr Julia Jones in the School of Biology and Environmental Science, in collaboration with Drs Dara Stanley and Nicholas Brereton
Three jars of hot peppers coated with honey. If anyone local (Conejo Valley) is interested in beta testing a jar of these (for free), let me know. Someone suggested folks might like this, rather than having us compost the peppers after making "hot honey" #honey#hotpeppers#spicy#extraspicy
#Celtic#MythologyMonday: „#Honey was a very important food, as it was the only source of sweetness for the ancient #Irish. It was taken so seriously, that it had a whole Brehon Law devoted to it, called bechbretha, meaning ‘bee judgements’. It concerned such rules as, if a hive swarmed onto another man’s land, what portion of the honey produced should be allotted to each man, and was quite detailed and complicated.“
Source: Ali Isaac | Substack
Hot honey from the other day. Honey heated and mixed with a bazillion hot peppers, then strained. There is typically a lot of hot peppers coated with honey left over... (currently out to the compost pile, but I wonder if folks would like very sticky, hot peppers in honey) #honey#beekeeping#food
My first piece for the auction is finished! Original Unseen design, hand burned onto the wood. There will be no starting bid so you could grab a real bargain! All profits will go to @SEWH 🦔🐝 #art#handmade#wildlife#craft#bees#pyrography#woodworking#honey
Most generative AI related to entomology is pretty terrible, probably because the intricacies and obscurity of entomological knowledge aren't represented in the training data.
But prompts with more mainstream crossover seem to do interesting things.
Here's Bing attempting "A baroque style painting of bees making honey"
Every time I've gone on the porch to have a mug of tea today, a #honeybee has arrived shortly after I finish to lick the inside of my mug clean. Is it the same bee every time?
I put lots of #honey in my tea, and I understand that you're not supposed to give honey to bees, because it can transmit disease. The tea is boiling hot when I stir the honey in, which I would think would destroy some disease vectors, but I don't really know.
How bad is this? Do I need to flee inside when I see the bee?
this sentence on our #Honey jar label perfectly encapsulate the #TapestryOfAlternatives : #Beekeepers from across the world - Zambia, Mediterranean, Scotland - all sharing very similar place-based environmental knowledge and skills, living in close symbioses with our fellow species 💚 #Indigenous#IndigenousKnowledge
Dear honey lovers: What is your secret to un-crystalizing honey without getting the label wet? Can't microwave, will damage the plastic. Hot water works but destroys the label over time.