Photos from this weekend ♥ 

“Here’s a great example of the different looks of capped honey [bottom] and capped brood [top]. In between are cells filled with pollen.” [via BeeMentor]

National Honey Bee Awareness Day is August 18th, 2012 

…and for those of you who joined us yesterday at our MEAD WORKSHOP - you know that we will have something ready just in time for the AFTER PARTY!! 

Mark your calendars!! More info coming soon…

WE LIKE YOU TOO!!! Thanks so much for your support!!

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HONEY: ”a sweet, thick fluid made by bees from the nectar of flowers”

HoneyLove + Borage
Random fact of the day… did you know that borage refills with nectar every 2 minutes!!

“According to old wives’ tales, borage was sometimes smuggled into the drink of prospective husbands to give them the courage to propose marriage.” [via Mary Campbell, A Basket of Herbs]

“Bristly or hairy all over the stems and leaves…the flowers are complete, perfect with five narrow, triangular-pointed petals… Traditionally borage was cultivated for culinary and medicinal uses, although today commercial cultivation is mainly as an oilseed… [Borage] has a sweet honey-like taste and as one of the few truly blue-colored edible substances, is often used to decorate dessert.” [via Wikipedia]

Photo credit: HoneyLover John Fedorowicz

“As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the colour and fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move through the world.” -Buddha (Dhammapada: Flowers, verse 49)

[post via Vanishing of the Bees]

Bees at work, the ‘waggle dance’

“They dance a special dance usually performed on a vertical surface of the hive, communicating the direction of a potential food source and its distance from the hive to other bees around… The distance the food source is from the hive is represented by the proportion of time the bee spends wagging its tail in the dance and the direction is represented by the angle to the vertical the bee adopts for the wagging portion of the dance…”

(Source: blindmen6)