In my opinion extracting or harvesting honey is a best benefit of beekeeping. Maintaining your hives throughout the year brings a payoff in the form of sweet honey that you can enjoy at home, give as gifts, or package and sell at the farm stand. The honey extraction process may seem a bit overwhelming at first but I’ll explain our method. What tools do you need to extract honey The honey extraction process involves multiple steps,
Honey is honey, you say? Well yes and no. If you’re stirring it into a hot, highly flavored tea, most flavor difference between types of honey will be lost, true. Yet, bees that feed on specific plants make honey with truly unique flavors. To taste the difference, try different kinds of honey spread side by side on plain toast or biscuit. Or, do what professional tasters do and try some all by itself spooned right out of
More and more eggs at markets have the label “cage free” stamped on their carton. This sounds good, but what does the label actually mean? “Cage free” marked on a carton of eggs simply means the hens laying those eggs are not kept in cages. Again, that sounds good but the label has a fairly limited legal definition and the practices of some farmers only following the letter of the law making more complicated than you might think.
Honey is an all-natural and readily available option with many possible health benefits. Some evidence suggests that honey helps reduce the risk of heart disease and diabetes and supports a healthy gut. Other research has found that honey might be a good alternative to antibiotics. Honey comes from nectar, which flowers produce to attract bees to them. Bees suck the nectar from flowers and store it in their stomachs. Later, bees will pass the nectar to other bees through their