Showing posts with label Bees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bees. Show all posts

Friday, August 7, 2015

Honey of a website!

Learn all about Honey; How it's made, Recipes, and Honey’s Natural Benefits are just a few of things you can find on the http://www.honey.com/ website. Love this site!



Honey is honey, it’s just that simple.  A bottle of pure honey contains the natural sweet substance produced by honey bees from the nectar of plants or secretions of living parts of plants.  Nothing else.

When scientists begin to look for all of the elements found in this wonderful product of nature, they find a complex of naturally flavored sugars as well as trace enzymes, minerals, vitamins, and amino acids.

Honey is made by bees in one of the world’s most efficient facilities, the beehive.  The 60,000 or so bees in a beehive may collectively travel as much as 55,000 miles and visit more than two million flowers to gather enough nectar to make just a pound of honey!

The color and flavor of honey differ depending on the bees’ nectar source (the blossoms).  In fact, there are more than 300 unique kinds of honey in the United States, originating from such diverse floral sources as Clover, Eucalyptus and Orange Blossoms.  In general, lighter colored honeys are mild in flavor, while darker honeys are usually more robust in flavor....


http://www.honey.com/


Pumpkin Honey Bread
In large bowl, cream honey with butter until light and fluffy. Stir in pumpkin. Beat in eggs, one at a time, until thoroughly incorporated. Sift together remaining ingredients. Stir into pumpkin mixture. Divide batter equally between two well-greased 9 x5 x 3-inch loaf pans. Bake at 350°F for 1 hour or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Let loaves cool in pans for 10 ...

http://www.honey.com/recipes/detail/6/pumpkin-honey-bread

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

September 6-7, 2013 Lithopolis Honeyfest - Lithopolis, Ohio

September 6-7, 2013  Lithopolis Honeyfest - Lithopolis, Ohio

Enjoy a fascinating day of unique attractions - honey bee beards; honey in a variety of flavors, colors and textures; and an array of products direct from the hive. Watch honey being extracted from the comb and the State Apiarist demonstrate a hive inspection. Meet the American Honey Princess, Ohio beekeepers and explore beekeeping equipment hands-on. See a real queen bee and her colony up close under the glass of an observation hive.  Buzz over to the food court for scrumptious honey-made food and sample mead at the wine tasting tent.  Grab a honey brew at the beer garden and enjoy a treat from the Honey Bake-Off sale.  Live music on two stages, arts & crafts, and watch the kids have fun creating their own crafts at The Gilmore Group's Busy Beehive.



FRIDAY-SATURDAY  AFTER LABOR DAY
SEPT. 6TH - 1 pm to 7 pm
SEPT. 7TH - 9 am to 7 pm


http://www.lithopolishoneyfest.com/