The Hive RSS
Single vs. Multi-Pollen Honey
"Is it local"? "What do they feed on"? "Do you have buckwheat"? "Do you have 'Manuka'"? Just a small smattering of the questions I get every day while selling honey at farmer's markets. All these questions are intertwined. As some of you know, if the bee hives are surrounded by a particular pollen type (flower) the honey they output will tend to be made up of entirely that flower's pollen. For people out there who are suffering from seasonal allergies, wildflower honey (from within the pollen bloom (not necessarily within a few miles)) will allow your body to acclimate to...
The Case for a Mentor
Decrystallizing Honey
I am coming at you with a 'How To' blog post this week. Since I started this honey shop endeavor, not a week goes by, not a week, where someone asks me what can be done when their jar of honey 'sugars up', 'turns hard', 'crystallizes', 'gets all gritty'... Pick your descriptor. Some of you reading this might say to yourselves, "This is so simple. It doesn't even warrant a blog post." That's what I thought until I realized that I have been answering this question over and over for the past 7 years, So here goes: 1) Fill a...
Thanksgiving Honey Turkey
I'm posting this just before 9:00 AM Thanksgiving morning so absolutely NO ONE is going to cook this for today but hey, it's a good idea. Maybe you can use it for Christmas. I snagged this one from Better Homes and Gardens. Like they don't get enough web traffic. Please let them know I will accept an 'Honorable Mention' in their next publication. https://www.bhg.com/recipe/turkey/honey-roast-turkey/ Ingredients 1 12 pound fresh or frozen natural turkey 2 cups water ½ cup honey (Try with our hot pepper honey)! ¼ cup finely snipped fresh parsley 2 tablespoons finely snipped fresh sage 2 tablespoons snipped fresh...
Tags
- All
- #pear
- abeille
- acacia
- Acacia honey
- Addis Ababa
- all natural baby balm
- antique car
- apiculture
- Argentina
- asian cuisine
- avocado
- Azerbaijan
- baby balm
- baby skin care
- Baku
- basses alpes flower
- Bath
- bee
- bee hive
- Bee Hives
- bee keeper
- Bee Keeping
- bee keeping for beginners
- beekeeping
- beekeeping 101
- bees wax
- bees wax skin care
- beeswax wraps
- bitters
- Bodrum
- body butter
- cartoon
- charcuterie board
- cheese
- chestnut honey
- chicken
- chocolate
- Christmas Berry
- citrus
- cocktail
- comic
- CONAPI
- Confluence
- Confluence District
- cookbook
- cooking lobster tails in butter
- cream cheese
- creamy lobster butter sauce recipes
- Croix Rousse
- crystallizedhoney
- cutting board
- Dardanelles
- dating
- day trips from Portland Oregon
- decrystallize
- dessert
- Djibouti
- dragon fruit
- Ethiopia
- Ethiopian food tour
- Europe Travel
- f24
- family day trips from Portland
- farro
- Fasil Ghebbi
- Florida
- Flowers
- forest honey
- france
- france24
- French Toast
- gaint asian hornet
- garlic
- garlic butter
- garrigue honey
- gastronomy
- giant hornet
- ginger
- goat cheese
- hardhoney
- hawaii
- hazelnut
- Heather honey
- home-made honey graham crackers
- honey
- honey cake
- honey roasted
- how to grill lobster tails
- howtodecrystallizehoney
- howtofixhoneythathascrystallized
- howtofixhoneythathasturnedtosugar
- howtostorehoney
- ice cream
- Japanese Giant Hornet
- keep bees
- lavender
- lavender honey
- learn beekeeping
- lemon
- lemon blossom
- lemon juice
- Limoncello
- linden
- lobster
- lobster recipes
- lobster tail recipe
- longan honey
- Luxembourg
- Lychee Blossom Honey
- lychee honey
- lychee-liscious honey
- Lyon
- Maine
- market
- Marseilles
- maximum effort
- meadowfoam blossom
- Meadowfoam honey
- meadowfoam honey health benefits
- meadowfoam honey mead
- melthoney
- mentor
- mezcal
- miel
- mineral oil
- monofloral
- multifloral
- murder hornets
- natural
- natural packaging
- nuts and honey
- oak honey
- olive oil
- orange
- Oregon meadowfoam raw honey
- palmetto
- Pancetta
- pasta dish
- pastries
- peanuts
- pepper
- pepper honey
- perennial
- pie
- pineapple
- plastic wrap
- plastic wrap alternative
- plum
- pollen
- Pork
- pure raw meadowfoam honey
- raspberry
- raspberry jam
- recipe
- recipes
- red pepper
- Rose hive
- rose hive method
- Salad
- San Javier
- Saone River
- secret day trips from Portland
- seeds
- semifreddo
- shrimp kabob
- sugaredup
- Sunflower
- Tagliarini
- tequila
- Thanksgiving
- Tigray
- Tigray Honey
- Top 5 Things to do in Lyon
- Top Things to do in Lyon
- topical
- Tourism
- Traboules
- Traboules of Lyon
- Travel
- Tucuman
- Turkey
- varroa
- varroa mites
- vegetarian
- vegetarian recipe
- Vieux Lyon
- vinegar
- vinegar honey pie
- vinegar pie
- vitamin E
- walnuts
- White Honey
- White Tigray Honey
- Wildflower honey
- Wilelaiki
- winterize
- wood
- wood bowl
- wood polish
- zero waste