@Bamabww how are the hives?Try this simple detox method with raw unpasteurized honey
Yeah, detox and colon cleanses...I love the ones that say "you may have 15 pounds of waste in your intestines, that's why you feel bloated". Instead, it's really just twenty pounds of belly fat. Anyone who's prepped for a colonoscopy knows exactly how much hooey that claim is.I've been farming bees for about 15 years now. Let me know if people start to buy this snake oil and I will triple the number of hives that I have.
I would do that anyway… raw honey is in high demand… as long as the bees aren’t feed sugar water, it won’t affect glucose… raw bee honey has a lot of enzymes and testosterone increasing products such as chrysin in it.. pasteurizing destroys them…I've been farming bees for about 15 years now. Let me know if people start to buy this snake oil and I will triple the number of hives that I have.
Where are you? @Bamabww has been in it as long, if not longer...great honey! He's getting selfish in his old age about sharing.I've been farming bees for about 15 years now. Let me know if people start to buy this snake oil and I will triple the number of hives that I have.
Depends on the honey.. I only buy Nate’s organic raw& unpasteurized honey.. all the bee keepers I knew around here passed away… Some store honey, are bees fed sugar water, crystallizes very quick..this last a long time… when it crystallizes just put it in the microwave for about 20 seconds..I saw on YouTube that the honey you buy at any supermarket isn't really honey? Is this true? My wife loves honey special in her hot tea, Me not a fan of it. I do know if you buy local honey is it healthier for you.

That's why I mentioned Wayne earlier...his honey has a, "tart?" @Bamabww It's not as sweet as what I get from Flowertown.Depends on the honey.
I'm in central Alabama. My farm is in south Alabama. When I last deployed in 2020, I had twelve active hives when I left. When I returned, I had zero!Where are you? @Bamabww has been in it as long, if not longer...great honey! He's getting selfish in his old age about sharing.
He had something hit his hives as I recall ... there's a local place that lost hundreds recently.
I read somewhere the honey you buy in convenience stores is cut with syrup...I saw on YouTube that the honey you buy at any supermarket isn't really honey? Is this true? My wife loves honey special in her hot tea, Me not a fan of it. I do know if you buy local honey is it healthier for you.
AKA running shoes?I also love the detox thingies that pull all of your heavy metals into specially designed odor eaters.
No, just foot pads or foot baths. It's hooey, just like the colon cleanse stuff.AKA running shoes?
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I'm about out of the honey business unfortunately. I have one of 8 left. Last October the state inspector came by unannounced and asked to check my bees. He said he was in the area and one of my fellow bee club mentioned that I never treated my bees. What that means is I have never introduced any chemical treatments in my hives to "help" the bees survive. In the business it's called "Treatment Free Bees."@Bamabww how are the hives?
A better way to get rid of the crystals is to place the jar in a pot and fill it with water up to the top of the honey. Remove the jar, get the water to boiling, remove it from the heat and place the jar back in the pot with the lid removed. This prevents the enzymes from being "killed" by the microwave. Monitor the temperature after a couple of minutes with a cooking thermometer. It should not exceed 120 degrees to safeguard the enzymes.when it crystallizes just put it in the microwave for about 20 seconds.
Thirty years ago I'd call a Mt. Dew and a Honey Bun breakfast. Today, can't deal with the sweets...just don't care for them anymore.I'll agree with Terry, this honey was different but very, very good. I've has very good luck with honeybees for 20 years until this past year.
You almost sound like an advocate for cannabis use.A strong belief in a remedy may be all it takes… I prefer natural cures… Your brain is what really cures you… unfortunately most people take pharmaceuticals with horrible side effects.. but they strongly believe that it works… so their brain does the rest… as a matter of fact a lot of your pharmaceuticals are synthetic lab made natural cures… metformin is a synthetic lilac flower.. Novacaine, Lanacaine, benzocaine, are all cocaine with different delivery methods… Poppy seed makes most all addictive painkillers..
If it's your brain that actually cures you, you shouldn't have to fool yourself with any substances. I don't bend forks and spoons, but I agree your outlook and disposition can have a major impact on your health and your overall well being.A strong belief in a remedy may be all it takes… I prefer natural cures… Your brain is what really cures you… unfortunately most people take pharmaceuticals with horrible side effects.. but they strongly believe that it works… so their brain does the rest… as a matter of fact a lot of your pharmaceuticals are synthetic lab made natural cures… metformin is a synthetic lilac flower.. Novacaine, Lanacaine, benzocaine, are all cocaine with different delivery methods… Poppy seed makes most all addictive painkillers..
Thanks for the tip…I'm about out of the honey business unfortunately. I have one of 8 left. Last October the state inspector came by unannounced and asked to check my bees. He said he was in the area and one of my fellow bee club mentioned that I never treated my bees. What that means is I have never introduced any chemical treatments in my hives to "help" the bees survive. In the business it's called "Treatment Free Bees."
He showed me his credentials and I was interested in an experts opinion on how my hives were doing anyway. I did have some reservations though going in the hives that late in the year. We'd already had a couple of nights with near frost temperatures so I knew my bees were in "shut down / survival mode" for the upcoming winter.
He assured me it would be fine and we checked all 8 hives. He said, "Mr. White, you have the strongest hives I've checked in Lawrence County. I didn't see one small hive beetle and even more surprising, no mites. You have a good place for an Apiary (bee yard). I thanked him and appreciated hearing from an expert that my bees were in as good a shape as I thought they were before the inspection.
Less that two weeks later, 5 of my hives were dead. Luckily I found it before I lost the honey they had stored for the winter and saved it.
In another week I lost another one. In all six hives I found a dead queen bee in the bottom of the hive. I believe the inspector as he pulled the frames of foundation up to look at them, he "rolled" or in other words, damaged the queen in each of these hives. Not intentionally but there is only what they call "bee space" between the individual frames and the queen is bigger than the other bees and could easily have been hurt during that inspection.
That left me with two hive and I lost one of them during the winter, which is normal. I filed a complaint with the State Department of Agriculture in Montgomery and they assured me they'd look into it. I haven't heard back from the bastards yet and have called 4 or 5 times to see what they found. I'm still waiting on "we'll get back with you."
Since I saved all the honey they the dead hives had stored, I'm hoping to be able to keep the one colony I have left alive and thriving thru this coming winter and split it in early spring and then again by summer to start over again. But I'm a year or so away from having any honey for sale again.
I'll agree with Terry, this honey was different but very, very good. I've has very good luck with honeybees for 20 years until this past year.
A better way to get rid of the crystals is to place the jar in a pot and fill it with water up to the top of the honey. Remove the jar, get the water to boiling, remove it from the heat and place the jar back in the pot with the lid removed. This prevents the enzymes from being "killed" by the microwave. Monitor the temperature after a couple of minutes with a cooking thermometer. It should not exceed 120 degrees to safeguard the enzymes.