Mead – The Honey Drink

Mead – the Honey Drink What is Mead? Mead is an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting a mixture of honey, water,and yeast. Honey itself contains yeast naturally, so the earliest forms of mead probably relied on the natural yeast in the honey to trigger fermentation. Mead is neither wine nor beer. Rather, it is its own unique category of alcoholic beverage, generally with an alcohol content between 10%-18%. In addition to...

The Health Benefits of Honey

What is Honey and How is it Made? Honey is a sweet substance made from flower nectar. The bees use it for food during the winter when no flowers are in bloom. Honey bees collect nectar using their long, tube-like tongues to suck the nectar out of the flowers. They store the nectar in their “honey stomachs” as they carry it back to the beehive. Bees actually have two stomachs. The “honey stomach” is for carrying honey...

It’s National Pollinator Week

  From Shakespeare’s The Tempest: ARIEL (sings) Where the bee sucks, there suck I: In a cowslip’s bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat’s back I do fly After summer merrily. Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.   This is National Pollinator Week Exciting news! This is the fifth annual celebration of National Pollinator Week! This...