A Delicious Side Dish Using Manuka Honey Root vegetables are one of those foods that not many people enjoy. Root vegetables are those that are grown underground such as beets, yams, carrots, and turnips. Since these vegetables exist below the soil, they absorb a large amount of nutrients and vitamins that some other vine vegetables…
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Keeping Your Hair Healthy Using Manuka Honey and Other Natural Ingredients Blow drying, straightening, curling, coloring, lightening – these are all things women do to their hair on a regular basis to keep it looking beautiful and styled. What many of these women may or may not realize is using heat and chemicals on their…
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Beekeepers Trying to Keep Bees and Businesses from Extinction Billions of bees have perished due to Colony Collapse Disorder over the last decade. Colony Collapse Disorder, or CCD, is an umbrella term for a number of different factors that are thought to be killing off large numbers of bees across the United States and across…
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3 Potential Health Benefits of Bee Pollen You May Not Know About We usually don’t think of bee pollen as something that can be potentially good for our health. Most people think of any kind of pollen as an annoying irritant that can make our allergies flare up. Scientifically, bee pollen is actually kind of…
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Small Beekeeping Operation Sold to Big Business for Large Profits A family owned beekeeping business from Evans Head, Australia recently experienced a $6 million payday. KirksBees Honey was recently purchased by honey industry giant, Capilano. KirksBees Honey, although a family owned business, is one of the largest producers of Manuka honey is Australia, making it…
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Flinders Island New Frontier for Manuka Honey Andrew Matthewson, who has made his home on the Tasmanian island of Flinders, is spreading tea tree seeds across the land. Matthewson believes his Flinders Island home is the new frontier for medicinal Manuka honey production. “Several of the leptosperm species [tea tree] seem to be active,” Matthewson…
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Can Tea Tree Oil Treat Chewing Lice Infestations in Donkeys? Internal parasites that target equine animals have recently been showing signs of resistance to the products that are commonly used to treat and kill them. Another external parasite that is showing the same resistance is the Bovicola ocellatus, or “donkey chewing louse,” which is showing…
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A Delicious Chicken Recipe Using Sweet Honey We usually think about using honey to sweeten our favorite desserts or drinks. While honey is great for a spread on toast or scones, a great sugar substitute in sweet breads and other desserts, as well as a sweetener for hot and cold teas, we often forget how…
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Top Luxury Hotels Have Taken Up Beekeeping Buckingham Palace, the Notre Dame Cathedral and New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art all have something very unusual in common – all of these landmarks are now keeping bees! In an article recently posted on CNN.com, there is actually a growing trend of bee-friendly landmarks and luxury…
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Population Declines Increase Concerns About CCD Additional honeybee colony losses and population declines in Waikato and on the Coromandel during the fall and winter months are causing scientists to respond, according to a recent article posted on NZFarmer.co.nz. The symptoms associated with these losses are consistent with a phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder or…
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Tea Tree Oil May be a Great Alternative to Neosporin Getting scrapes, cuts, and abrasions is just a part of everyday life. While these little accidents may be painful, small cuts are generally not threatening to our overall health – unless they get infected. The key to treating small scrapes and cuts is to make…
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Waiter Charged After Multiple Honey Thefts Zoman Ahmed, a 20-year-old waiter from Tower Hamlets, stole almost £1,000 worth of Manuka honey from the same health food store over a period of eight days. The honey stolen was imported from Australia and New Zealand and costs upwards of £60 per jar at Holland & Barrett –…
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Combo Sets Mean More Product for Less Money! ManukaHoneyUSA.com offers premium products made with “medium strength” Active Manuka Honey UMF (Unique Manuka Factor) 16+. All of our products are backed by a written contract with the UMF Association, and organization that oversees the important External Quality Control Function. For those diehard Manuka honey lovers or…
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A Delicious Dessert Recipe Combining Vanilla and Honey Many people use honey as a means to naturally sweeten some of their favorite foods. Honey is often used as a spread for toast, biscuits, and scones as well as a substitute for sugar in many dessert recipes. Pudding is a favorite after dinner treat that a…
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Harmful Pesticides Found in Massachusetts’ Honey Honey samples collected from foraging bees in the state of Massachusetts have been found to contain at least one neonicotinoid. 70 percent of the samples that were collected contain this class of pesticide, which has been identified as a possible cause of Colony Collapse Disorder, or CCD. CCD…
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