Honey Bees
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HONEY BEE PROJECTS & LINKS
"My son, eat honey; It is good. And just as honey from the comb is sweet on your tongue, you may be sure that wisdom is good for the soul. Get wisdom and have a bright future."
Proverbs 24: 13, 14
The "Bee-nefits" of
honey to your health:
- honey is antibacterial
- honey is hydroscopic, meaning "water loving"...honey holds moisture in place and even draws moisture out of the air (hence, the reason for the bread not drying out)
- honey gives a slow steady release of energy instead of peaks and valleys that come from eating sugar!
- weight lifters, triatheletes, and competitive sport figures use honey before, during and after a workout.
- honey does not cause cavities. The sugars in honey don't begin breaking down until they reach the stomach.
- find a local beekeeper to purchase raw, unfiltered, unheated honey to obtain all its natural vitamins and nutrients
- The National Honey Board and the American Medical Association found through research that eating honey raised within a 50 mile radius of your home would help with allergies.
Thanks to Melanie Irions of Irions' Honey Bee Farm and Wise Woman, Susan Weed for these facts! Credit goes to: www.farmersalmanacTV.com and www.susunweed.com
"Un-BEE-lievable" Trivia
about our friends,
the honeybees:
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Over 1/3 of all our food could not be produced without the pollination of honey bees!Praise BEE for the HONEY BEE!
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Honey bees' wings stroke 11,400 times per minute, thus making their distinctive buzz.
- The bee's digestive fluids contain enzymes that transform the nectar into honey.
- A honey bee can only sting once and then she dies because her stinger is ripped out during the stinging process (OUCH!)
- A pound of honey contains the essence of about 2 million flowers!
- Bees see all color humans do except red and they can see ultraviolet.
- The queen can lay up to 2000 eggs per day one to a cell.
- The workers are female bees that do not lay eggs but do all the work necessary for the upkeep and protection of the hive.
- Bees have no ears, but they can sense the vibrations of the surfaces upon which they alight.
- Honey was man's first sweetener and was so valued it could be used to pay taxes in some cultures.
- By the age of 20 days, the workers start producing wax used to repair and construct cells.
- A honey bee flies 15 miles per hour.
- The average honey bee makes 1/12 of a teaspoon honey in her lifetime.
- During the summer, the typical honey bee colony contains between 40,000 to 70,000 bees.
KIDS, go to www.honeybeekeeping.com and click on the "Kids Corner" for some very cool bee coloring pages...Here's one for you now!
"The
Honey
Lover"
from
www.honeybeekeeping.com
"The Beekeeper"
BEES & HONEY PRODUCTS
"Bee My Baby Bedding"  soft, natural cotton baby bedding for boys or girls for a soothing nature nursery |
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 bee bracelet |
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 Buzzy Bee Apron/ Kitchen set |
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 Bee Honey Pot with Dipper |
 Bee Salt & Pepper Shakers |
 Bee finger puppet |
 Beehive Birdhouse Basket |
 beeswax candle basket |
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bee brooch
HONEY RECIPES
Spread Around
the Sweetness
HONEY BUTTER SPREAD
In small bowl, cream 1/2 cup butter until soft. Slowly beat in 1/4 cup honey; beat o high speed until light.
HONEY BREAD
Recipe from: The Honey Kitchen
published by Dadant & Sons
Bread made with honey gets more moist as it sits.
Combine boiling water, oats, butter, salt adn honey. Cool until warm.Dissolve yeast in warm water and add to oat mixture. Mix in 4 cups of flour gradually. Knead in the remaining 2 cups of four. Let dough rise in warm place until doubled. Punch down dough and from into 2 loaves. Place in greased bread pans. let rise again in pans until doubled. Bake at 325 degree for 50-60 minutes.
Download recipe for Honey Bread