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...

How Can I Help Save The Bees?

If you would like some ideas and suggestions on how you can help the bees, please have a look at the new multi-part blog post at Mahreen George’s blog Veni Vidi Blogi: I Came, I Saw, I Blogged. The post is titled To Bee or Not To Bee, and it is part of Mahreen’s Do Something Good Giveaway Series. In these posts Mahreen interviews me (Mark Tanney). In Part I I briefly describe the history of Honey Girl Organics, and then I...