With the decline in honeybee populations in the US and around the world, numerous organizations both private and public have been putting forth efforts and doing what they can to stop or even just slow the significant losses in numbers, which likely have been occurring for several decades now. The USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service…
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Robert J. Warren, an assistant professor of biology at SUNY Buffalo State, said that once while performing field work in Southern Appalachia, he realized, “whenever I saw a honey locust, I could throw a rock and hit a Cherokee archaeological site.” Even further, Warren formed the hypothesis that “Native Americans may have affected the concentration…
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The ongoing honeybee crisis has inspired many to get out and contribute what they can to the honey industry by learning about the bees, conserving and protecting their food sources, and also properly and humanely raising them while supporting human food supplies, currently under crisis just as the little pollinators are. Even kids are getting…
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In case you hadn’t heard, March is National Nutrition Month–yes, nutrition has its own month! And even though March is almost over, it’s never too late to find nutritious snacks and meals to help get you slim and ready for summer. One example of such meals can be found right here with an old favorite–or…
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The Maori people of New Zealand, just like the Native Americans, have their lands taken from them, given back to them, and then left in a state of uncertainty about rights to that land. The 1993 Te Ture Whenua Maori Act helped end the lengthy discussions in the Maori community on how to balance the…
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Donald Watson, founder of the Vegan Society who coined the term ‘vegan’ in 1944, is also the person to apply an actual definition to the philosophy of veganism, which he stated to be “a way of living that excludes all forms of exploitation of and cruelty to the animal kingdom and includes a reverence for…
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It’s likely we all have seen or at least heard of those old horror movies that featured “killer bees” attacking small towns and their people by the thousands, only to be put down heroically by the protagonists by the movie’s end. Those killer bees, almost always “African killer bees,” have likely created an image in…
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Yemen, a small Arab country on the southeastern side of Saudi Arabia, has been engaged in civil war since early 2015. The warring sides include the Yemeni government and Houthi forces, who took control of the nation’s capital, Sana’a, soon after the crisis began in a coup to reinstate former President Ali Abdullah Saleh. The…
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Honey Dijon Caramels You all might be thinking the same thing–mixing mustard and caramel? Really? I know it seems like a long shot, but in the end this blend of sweet and salty and the added hint of subtle seasoning is surprisingly complex when it comes to flavor–in all the right ways. The benefit of…
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When it comes to finding the cause of global decline in honeybee populations and the threat to food supplies, researchers all over have been working high and low, making contributions to the debate as they go. There is a new piece to the ongoing puzzle, and it has to do with pesticides, which many scientists…
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The ongoing debate regarding the use of pesticides in agricultural and gardening operations is known to be heated and determined, but luckily such a debate forces agencies with the available resources to gather answers to important ongoing questions. A recent study published in the Journal of Chemical Ecology focused on the potential effects of the…
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With the ongoing honeybee crisis and countless reports of colony collapses, many experts in the honey industry have been trying to come up with solutions that will not only stop current colony collapses, but prevent them from occurring in the future. Paul Stamets, a veteran mushroom farmer, believes he has come up with a perfectly viable…
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New Zealand has benefited so much because of its burgeoning Manuka honey market, so much so that the country’s neighbor, Australia, wants to get in the market too and really compete in a business that gains more buyers every day. Such competition can only benefit both economies, especially given that competition in a free market…
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Manuka Honey Yeast Rolls For bread lovers, there’s nothing better than a hot, buttered yeast roll fresh from the oven. Even as non-bread lovers will say, good rolls bring together a wonderful flavor and raise the quality of a meal significantly. What makes this old southern favorite an even greater hit is when you spice…
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There have been reports of drought in many countries over the past year and, as Americans have discovered the hard way in California, severe droughts carry the risk of forest fires. As of 2016, over 615,000 acres in the Australian state of Tasmania have burned in bush fires, raising concerns that the inaccessibility and remoteness…
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