Alas, no listen later was saved for Friday's shows, so here's the link to my sweet article about local honey...Plus, there's a hot honey recipe!
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/honey-waterloo-region-apiarists-1.7604195
Alas, no listen later was saved for Friday's shows, so here's the link to my sweet article about local honey...Plus, there's a hot honey recipe!
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/honey-waterloo-region-apiarists-1.7604195
Robotic frames offer new insights into honeybee behavior and honey storage
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-robotic-insights-honeybee-behavior-honey.html
I’m not flighty about my love of honey and it’s one of those foods that’s not just local, but hyperlocal.
Waterloo-Wellington is abuzz in honey and honeybees. And for this week’s column, I visited a bee yard, chatted with a bee breeder and a rescuer and got some sweet cooking and drinks ideas about honey that’ll stick.
#Food #WaterlooRegion #WellingtonCounty #Honey #Mastonom #Recipe
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/honey-waterloo-region-apiarists-1.7604195
Das flüssige Gold fliesst.
#Honey
County fair season
Showcasing summer's sweet work
Honey makers all
#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #Seasons #Summer #August #Medina #MedinaCountyFair #Ohio #Honey #Hive #HiveMind #Bee #HoneyBee #HoneyBees #Bees #Pollinators #BeeKeepers #USA
August 6, 2025
Blossoms for what will become a fall raspberry crop draw bees to the bushes outside my bedroom window. Made me think of this collection https://biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2025/01/hey-honey-poems-about-bees.html.
**A Symbol of Immortality: Evidence of Honey in Bronze Jars Found in a Paestum Shrine Dating to 530–510 BCE**
"_Our multianalytical approach detected lipids, saccharide decomposition products, hexose sugars, and major royal jelly proteins supporting the hypothesis that the jars once also contained honey/honeycombs._"
Luciana da Costa Carvalho, Elisabete Pires, Kelly Domoney, Gabriel Zuchtriegel, and James S. O. McCullagh
Journal of the American Chemical Society Article ASAP DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c04888
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Science #Chemistry #Honey #Academia @science
One of my "low effort" meals when I've been too busy to cook up something, but I have a block of feta available.
Aforementioned block of #feta, sprinkled with some herbs like thyme and maybe basil. Covered with olive oil and baked at 400 for a few minutes until soft but not melty. This example should have gone a bit longer.
Using a basting brush, spread some #honey over the top and then broil it until it starts to brown. I ran out of honey and used only a little bit here so this doesn't have as fancy looking of a crisp, but I promise it was still delicious.
https://www.europesays.com/2279446/ Beekeepers in Estonia report poor honey harvest due to rainy summer | News #beekeeping #Eesti #estonia #FARMING #honey #summer #Uudised
Hello everyone, how's it going? I'm tired but I'll get by. I was able to print out some simple labels for my small jars. I'd have higher quality stuff but I wasn't really planning on having any honey this year. Next year I'll try for something more refined.
Well, same label just glossy and crisp. My work printer is color but for drafting print offs, not pictures.
Have a good evening! We're going to sit down to dinner.
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
—from W.B. Yeats, "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"
Did You Know:
Honey is one of the most counterfeited foods. Known as “honey laundering”. North America banned honey imports from China for this.
Check your labels & buy local when you can. Honey is expensive for a reason. Buying cheap honey risks getting a product that is fake, lacks the same health benefits & can even be contaminated with lead and antibiotics.
Final harvest estimate: 150 pounds! From 1 hive in an unusually early harvest.
We then bottle it & share/sell to friends, family & neighbours.
(See descriptions on each image.)
The de-capped frames are spun in a centrifuge & filtered through multiple layers to strain out debris (bee parts).
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Honey harvest time! My parents had a hive survive the winter and so got off to an early start. Doing a harvest early this season because they filled several layers so quickly.
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The 2025 HarpHives harvest.
View a Beehive Up Close with this 3D Printed Hive - Bees are incredible insects that live and die for their hive, producing rich honey... - https://hackaday.com/2025/07/08/view-a-beehive-up-close-with-this-3d-printed-hive/ #3dprintable #greenhacks #biohacking #beehive #honey
The chemical secrets that help keep honey fresh for so long
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250701-the-chemical-secrets-that-help-keep-honey-fresh-for-so-long
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44463429
tldr: low water content (microbial growth among other things needs water - ditto dense, hard cheese vs. soft supermarket cheddars ...)
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4811779
Our grocer's "old" cheddar (very soft) shows signs of mold growth within 2 weeks opened, refrigerated (4 degC). Our Asiago (very hard, dense) keeps indefinitely (apparently) opened, handled (for grating).
The chemical secrets that help keep honey fresh for so long