As a teacher, honey is a diamond superfood. Is that just honey alone, or is it still super if I mix it into my lemon water or coffee? Plain lemon water at 5:30 am is just too tart. Just curious.

I dont see why it wouldnt.

Sure, why not?

I did not know if heating the honey up would change it's status. Glad to hear I am starting my day with a diamond SF combo. :)

Thanks

I don't think it has to be raw honey, it would say so if it did.  Enjoy it!  Give me a few more months and I'll celebrate with some honey in green tea (a favorite combination there)

Melissa - Why aren't you drinking green tea?

I suspect it is the honey that she is not eating right now, since she is a gatherer.   :)  Us teachers get the honey!

Melissa, I hope that when you are able to have honey you try a small jar of raw honey. It is so mellow and is supposed to be really good for you. In the meantime, I'll have some for you. ;)

I had a NASTY reaction to regular honey, but when I got some raw organic honey I was fine.

I was told regular honey bees get fed both hormones and antibiotics to protect them against diseases that are a result of the hormones!  Plus they are fed white sugar.  Must effect the honey.

I do like the "unheated" honey which is harder to find.  Bees keep the hive at around 93-95°F year round while most "raw" honey is heated to  approximately 152°F during filtration.  The properties of unheated honey are studied extensively and do not hold their value when the honey is processed through a higher degree of heating.  

I´m a beekeeper with 50 000 bee ( just one hive  :P )
and the only stuff I eat is raw honey from my own hive - we never heat it when we filtrate dead bees out of the honey.
We don´t use any thing in the bee hive except some  formic acid as a miticide against the Varroa mite. and that is pretty safe.
Yes I do feed my bees sugar in the autumn when we have harvested the last honey or my bees would die during the long cold danish winter- but all this sugar is used up when I start to harvest again in june- august - it is very easy to see the difference between honey made from sugar and honey made from nectar .
The "artificial" honey is very white and solid and does not smell of much.
However note that honey made from Chestnut trees are quite white and solid.
Enjoy your honey  :D

Henriette, that is so cool 8)! Is bee keeping a very time consuming activity? I've often thought that when I retire, that I may like to try it.

Here in the US, in Wisconsin where I live, the bees have been at risk from some "bug" and the lady where I buy my honey used garlic powder to repel the pests and it worked! The big operations used some modern pesticides and were not as sucessful. Fasinating hobby! :)

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Henriette, that is so cool 8)! Is bee keeping a very time consuming activity? I've often thought that when I retire, that I may like to try it.

Here in the US, in Wisconsin where I live, the bees have been at risk from some "bug" and the lady where I buy my honey used garlic powder to repel the pests and it worked! The big operations used some modern pesticides and were not as sucessful. Fasinating hobby! :)

No not really .
I have one hive and my step dad has 2 hives so we share the honey and the work .
Most years I get about 15-20 kg honey from one hive- I could get more if I worked the bees harder.
We are most busy in april- september - the rest of the year the bees more or less take care of themselves. In april- may - we just check if they´ve got room enough to breed and collect - about 15 minutes work pr hive pr week.
In june- august we collect honey about 3 x. one each month.
Every week we check if they are ok - needmore room- if the queen is still there etc
- and when we harvest it takes some time - maybe 1 -2hour each time. Depending on how much honey we collects.
And then we feed in august- late septmber- about 5 minutes every 2nd day...

It is a great hobby especially for a busy active B like me who sometimes find it hard to concentrate doing 1 thing at a time....
well you have to with the bees ;D or they get upset.

Thanks for the info.

I might have to offer my services to a beekeeper when I retire, to learn the techniques you described. I just think it is so interesting how the whole process works. I like the idea of producing my own superfood!

My dad makes home-made maple syrup each year, and my whole family goes "up-north" to help haul in sap, and cook it down into syrup. The kids love the rewards of their work. :) My dad is teaching me how, so I can carry on the tradition.

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Thanks for the info.
My dad makes home-made maple syrup each year, and my whole family goes "up-north" to help haul in sap, and cook it down into syrup. The kids love the rewards of their work. :) My dad is teaching me how, so I can carry on the tradition.

Wow - sadly the maple trees don´t grow well here- cause I have always been facinated by the whole maple syrup thing- ever since I read "Little house in the big woods ;D
But I know some guys who the the same thing with birchtrees -it is traditional in Finland but not in Denmark  and the syrup taste nice mild - but not as nice as maple syrup - at least we gets good organic maple syrup here  :D

Your beekeeping sounds really interesting! Thanks for telling us about it! :)