About 150,000 bees that live at King Charles’s Highgrove estate in Gloucestershire where Highgrove Honey Royal Estate and Highgrove Royal Orchard Spring Honey has been sold since the 1990s. The HIghgrove honey is available in ceramic jars “Highgrove Royal Estate Honey in Ceramic, 500g“. King Charles is an avid botanist and has had travelled almost […]
The Haagen-Daz Honey Bee Haven at UC Davis
The Haagen-Daz Honey Bee Haven at UC Davis is a half-acre unique educational pollinator habitat garden that provides the public with an opportunity to observe bees and the plants that support them. It is designed as a series of interconnected gardens interconnected gardens, including “Pollinator Patch,” “Nectar Nook” and “Honeycomb Hideout.” The garden is open […]
Erewhon’s Celebrity Honey Selection in Beverly Hills
Erewhon, the famed celebrity grocery store in Beverly Hills has an interesting selection of honey sourced from southern California, ranging from Ventura Coast to the Angeles National Forest. They also carry B.Soothed cough drops which contain Bee Propolis Extract, Zinc, Vitamin D, Honey, Chicory Root Fiber, Tapioca Syrup, Monk Fruit. To sprinkle on cereal or […]
Milan’s Tall Honey Factory by Francesco Faccin
In 2015, Faccin teamed up with beekeeper Mauro Veca to design the tall Honey Factory to encourage urban beekeeping. The tall structure protects the hive from bad weather and provides constant temperature with optimal ventilation. The project was featured in Architecture Digest, among other 2015 newspapers. However, not everyone became a fan of tall beehives, for […]
Mad Honey: from Turkey & Nepal
Bees produce honey from more than 700 species of Rhododendrons around the world. Most honey from rhododendrons is slightly spicy and bitter, like this ItalianHoney from rhododendrons in the Italian Alps. Two species of rhododendrons in the Himalayan mountains of Nepal and Turkey’s Black Sea, contain Grayanotoxin, a natural neurotoxin. Mad Honey is made from […]
Honey Sommeliers Around the World
Honey Tasting Festivals, Workshops and Tours around the world are helping create many honey-tasting sommeliers. There is no known number for these workshops and tours because they are organized by large and small beekeepers. However, three well known honey tasting tours include: Athens Honey Tasting is famous for its botanical walks and honey tasing under […]
Bee-Washing and Modern Bee Hotels
Many concerned beekeepers warn about “bee-washing”, a term that marketers use to persuade the public to think that a product is environmentally friendly. For example, many seed companies run campaigns to plant wildflowers to help the declining bee populations. These campaigns neglect to mention that there are many kinds of bees and that native bees […]
BEE Kind: Honey Filled Chocolate Helps Non Profit
Dr. Brian Stork, a Professor of Urology at the University of Michigan, and part-time beekeeper teamed up with Patricia’s Chocolate to create a unique bee-hive-shaped chocolate filled with honey. Part of the proceeds goes to fund Step Up, a non-profit that assists youth, moving from foster care in Muskegon, MI. The University of Michigan News […]
Pope Benedict’s Half Million Bees
The papal summer retreat, which includes the Pope’s residence Apostolic Palace, is a beautiful 50 acre farm is in Castel Gandolfo, a small town in the Alban Hills, a volcanic area, (Lazio Region) 25 km south-east Rome. In September 2011, the Italian trade group Coldiretti gifted Pope Benedict XVI eight beehives, that had half a […]