In the Tunisia’s capital city of Tunis is the Mediterranean School of Business, a private business school affiliated with South Mediterranean University, whose officials have stated it aspires to be an example for those living in the northern countries of Africa. Within this school is Noomen Lahimer, a professor of economics and entrepreneurship, who encouraged…
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While there are many out there who understand that honeybees are endangered and are currently losing many of their populations globally, there are still those out there who remain uninformed on the growing crisis with honeybees and their continuing rate of decline. There are also those whose first instinct upon finding a swarm (half the…
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The threats honeybees face this day in age are many, and it’s left researchers on the defensive in terms of finding solutions to save bee populations, whether the threat is colony collapse disorder, pathogens, varroa mites, malnutrition, or pesticides. Considering how important honeybees are, any new threat to them is given full weight and the…
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With a popular industry comes heavy competition, and with that industry being called a “gold rush” comes those who want as much as they can get—no matter the cost to others or what laws they break. Veteran beekeepers in Taranaki, New Zealand are experiencing such a problem, as outside beekeepers invade the region with hundreds of…
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Manuka Honey Raspberry Bundt Cake While raspberry season is slowing down, there’s still plenty of berries out there to bake into a delicious cake, and a Manuka Honey Raspberry Bundt Cake is one of the best places to start! As something that can be served as a guilty-pleasure breakfast or a dessert with a scoop of…
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The word ‘Honey’ typically generates thoughts of bees and natural sweet goodness on hot biscuits with warm tea served in the afternoon. However, this unique ingredient can also be used to sweeten your daily beauty routine to provide additional moisture to hair and face for amazing results. You want to ensure that you do the…
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It’s one thing to know about honeybees’ role in our lives—pollinating flowers and the plants that produce our food—as well as their populations declining, but it’s another thing to understand how a honeybee colony’s hive actually works because in its own way, a hive is an organism of sorts, with thousands of individual parts working…
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What many likely don’t know about honey is it takes “two million individual blossoms to produce one pound of honey,” says beekeeper Zac Browning, with each individual honeybee producing 1/12 of a teaspoon in its lifetime. With the planting of more row crops in states like North Dakota, Iowa, and so forth, producing that number…
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The impact the Manuka honey industry has made on New Zealand and the world is hard to believe, considering the Manuka bush was once thought of as some invasive species to be rid of back in the 1950s. It is now considered one of the most valuable niche products out there, with many rural communities…
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It takes a lot of work and dedication to be a beekeeper, especially in Texas—working in sweltering, summer temperatures in a protective beekeeping suit and lifting between 50-90 pounds of honeycomb all day. For former CIA operative turned beekeeper Tara Chapman, she’s proud to be the uncommon woman who works jobs not often filled by…
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Even those who work outside of the sciences know humans as a species are social creatures and that even before civilization, human beings lived in and moved in groups, likely due to it being the most adaptive thing for them to do in order to survive. And many complex species, as most people also know,…
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Vanilla-Manuka Honey Soft Serve Ice Cream It’s likely most have thought about how cool it might be to make your own ice cream, since nothing truly compares to the fresh taste of ice cream made right in your kitchen, with all the flavor intact and not lost after preservatives and production time have been added…
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In New Zealand, the birthplace of Manuka honey, the Maori, who are New Zealand’s indigenous people, make up roughly 16 percent of the island country’s population, and as a culture, they have been trying to grow their economy and branch it out into the world, as Maori Development Minister Te Ururoa Flavell aspires to do…
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It’s probably not hard to figure, but it’s well known that honeybees are important parts of our daily survival and function as a species, which is why so much focus has been placed on finding out what’s causing bees to decline and what we can do to ensure their various sub-species are not lost to…
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How Food Irradiation Can Make Honey Safer Given the panic and fear that comes from botulism, salmonella, and other diseases born of contaminated food, many food producers and distributors have had safety precautions put in place to protect themselves from lawsuits and the public from these diseases, whether it’s by pasteurizing milk, purifying water, and…
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