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 […]
BeeHero Pioneers Precision Pollination Using Smart Hives
According to BeeHero, with offices in Palo Alto and research in Israel, 70% of crops worldwide rely on bees, whose increasing mortality rate, coupled with colony collapse disorder, makes feeding the world’s growing population a challenge. BeeHero has been in the news for partnering with Monsons Honey & Pollination, Australia’s leader in beekeeping and pollination […]
Beeswax Food Wraps are now at Target!
Target recently introduced reusable Beeswax Food Wraps for sandwiches, as well as for wrapping fruit and vegetables, to let their customers have a sustainable way to wrap food. In 2018 alone, we used about 82.2 million tons of plastic to wrap food, all this plastic goes to waste dumps. If we continue at the 2018 […]
Mead, Honey from Wine, is the World’s Oldest Alcoholic Drink
The ancient Greeks called mead the “nectar of the gods.” Since honey has antioxidant and antimicrobial properties; mead was also used in ancient India and China and has been used ever since by many cultures. Famous mead was made by monks in European monasteries and Queen Elizabeth the 1st had her own mead recipe. Today, mead […]
Songs about Honey (and HoneyMoon)
Many songs are about ‘Honey’ as well as ‘Honeymoon’ – a 16th-century word described in the Oxford Dictionary as a word that originally denoted the period of time following a wedding – from honey and moon, and generally describes the first month after marriage.
Honeysuckle Rose
Honeysuckle rose attracts bees and helps them make wonderful honey. Click here to listen to Ella Fitzgerald sing Honeysuckle Rose with Count Basie’s Orchestra. Soon, we will have a recording of Bill Coggshall on the trumpet playing (trumpet) Honeysuckle Rose.