Honey & Beeswax
Marketing Your Honey
Marketing and selling surplus honey takes a bit more than word of mouth if you have more than a few gallons to sell. So, here’s a primer on how to start marketing and selling your surplus honey this season.
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How Much Do Beekeepers Make?
How much do beekeepers make per hive? With as few as two successful hives, you can recover expenses to get into the hobby and pocket a little extra cash.
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Steps for Successfully Filtering Beeswax
We have tried several ways of filtering beeswax and our favorite way is to filter the wax on the stove top.
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Granny’s Southern Cornbread with Honey Instead of Sugar
Make cornbread with honey instead of sugar with Granny’s southern taste for honey cornbread in cast iron.
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Vulture Bee Honey & Weird Honey
Discover vulture bee honey and other weird insects that produce sweet nectar to feed their hives.
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Why Bees Matter: A Chef’s Perspective
Add to Favorites By Cappy Tosetti Nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina is the eclectic city of Asheville, known as a Mecca for locally sourced food and …
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Naturally Sweet: German Honey Cookies
Cooking with honey can be challenging in any recipe. German honey cookies were one of the more interesting learning curves.
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Why Mānuka Honey is So Expensive
Exports of this specialty product are worth up to $204 million annually, which is expected to quadruple by 2028.
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How Much Honey Per Hive?
When I have a colony overwinter — and they have no spring/summer issues such as a queen dying or an unexpected swarm — I generally get around 75-100 pounds of honey per hive in Colorado.
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Judging the Best Honey in the World
Where does the best honey in the world come from? And how is it determined “best?”
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