My favourite trees: the old village lime trees between the church and our museum. They are humming with bees now - and later we sell the delicious lime tree honey with it's scent of early summer.
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
There's generally a couple of very large, ripe avocados that have fallen near our hives in avocado orchards. The growers tell us the avocados are 30-50% larger near hives (they LOVE beehives for that reason). However, pickers will not pick the avocados very close to the hive, so... there's always a few that have fallen off a nearby tree in the hive zone. I've gone as far as snagging some honeycomb from a hive and dropping it into a ripe avocado, and there's lunch! #avocados#honey#beekeeping
@ai6yr I had a friend who had terrible allergies. living in a very floral, arboreal area, he suffered terribly. His wife started giving him a teaspoon of local honey every day, for a year. The allergies went away! After 10 years, he quit eating the honey (the apiary on their property lost its keeper to sudden death)… and within 6 months, the allergies were back.
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
Rozumiem takie podejście, choć moim zdaniem nadmierna współczesna presja na siłę rodzin nie idzie w parze z ich uogólnioną dobrą kondycją. Przykładowo praktycznie wszystkie badania wskazują, że to lokalne pszczoły (często niebudujące takiej siły) mają się lepiej w środowisku. Przy czym wyjaśniam: nie mam na myśli Twojego podejścia tylko systemowego-towarowego również za pomocą selekcji ukierunkowanej głównie na maksymalizację siły. Jeżeli hobbysta nie ma innego wyboru, a kupuje takie pszczoły lub wymienia matki na komercyjne, to niestety jest także chcąc nie chcąc elementem tej układanki wpływającej ogólnie negatywnie na kondycji populacji pszczół.
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.
@mapologies I cannot possibly Express in any words or any ancestors of any words how happy this chart makes me. This apiphile and hobby linguist is ending her day on a really good note. Thank you! 😄❤️🤘🖖🐝
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
These are sweet (coated with honey from our beehives) but VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY spicy. (and I like spicy). Anyone want to draft up a "release of liability" form, ha ha?
@joycebell@BakerRL75@ai6yr My father sent me deep red table wines that reminded me of a sweeter Malbec and other lighter reds. When I was in country, there were a lot of Chianti-types and I think a rich Cabernet.
I know an only enough Cyrillic to get me between train stations in Kiev, so my wine bottles were not something I could ask about easily. Also at the time I was there there was a huge shift from the Russian language into the Ukrainian language so I never was sure what to look up to translate. I think most of the time they were happy that I was trying to ask in and use the few words Ukrainian words I had acquired.
#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
@NeuKelte #Bees#BeeKeeping
That's interesting. I am new to beekeeping and hoping to catch a swarm this spring. I am already feeding wild bees on top of my hive boxes.
What I wonder is how the ancient Celts came to the conclusion that bees should be subject to human conventions of land ownership. That just seems weird. Bees have no respect for fencerows. They may even nest in them if there is room between the stones.