The difference between raw honey and store honey isn’t obvious from the label. Words like “pure,” “natural,” and “all-natural” appear on both. Prices vary by a factor of four. The jars mostly look the same. Here’s what’s actually different. There are real differences underneath all of that. Here’s what they are. What Happens to Honey […]
Meet Charolette, the newest queen bee in West Tennessee, joining the Bloom & Buzz apiary in Yuma, Carroll County. She arrived mated, proven, and ready to work, which is exactly what this hive needed. Her predecessor never materialized. When we divided the colony earlier this season, we were asking the bees to do something genuinely […]
Carroll County spring honey starts in a yellow field. The canola surrounding our apiary on Enoch Cemetery Road is at peak bloom right now, row-crop yellow in every direction the bees leave from. This is the window that defines what ends up in the jar each spring, and it closes fast. What canola means for […]
