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Honey Hunters of the World

Honey hunting is a tradition that is older than humanity and has been developed by people (and animals) all around the world. We all like honey. It is interesting to see the different clever and daring rituals people have developed in the quest to harvest honey. As we all know, honey is worth it. The following is a selection from a variety of traditional techniques from around the world, which I will keep adding to. Please feel free to add others. Craving sweetness is hardwired into our physiology.

Getting to Know Our Busy Friends the Bees

Getting to Know Our Busy Friends the Bees

Peter Finch of Cedar Cottage Community Garden sent us this beautiful guest post to help us get to know our busy and friendly co-species the bees. If we didn't have bees we wouldn't have us it's that simple. Peter Finch is one of the founders of the lovely forest garden under the skytrain and is ...

Cedar Cottage Community Garden

Cedar Cottage Community Garden

Cedar Cottage Community Garden is a lovely community and still has garden plots available! I can't find their website at the moment but I will put a link in as soon as I figure it out. Check out this delightful article by Peter Finch one of the founders of the food forest in the garden in which he d ...

Neonicotinoid Pesticides Cause Colony Collapse Disorder

Neonicotinoid Pesticides Cause Colony Collapse Disorder

Source: www.mongabay.com Researchers recreate bee collapse with pesticide-laced corn syrup Scientists with the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) have re-created the mysterious Colony Collapse Disorder in several honeybee hives simply by giving them small doses of a popular pesticide, ...

Wild Honey Bees are Full of Healthy Lactic Acid Bacteria

Wild Honey Bees are Full of Healthy Lactic Acid Bacteria

I picked this article up from Organic Connections, the University of Lund has just made some amazing discoveries about bees and their gut flora. The prevalence of antibiotics throughout our environment are destroying their vital diversity. The Burmese have a traditional folk remedy using wild fo ...

Poland’s Monsanto action lays 1000s of dead bees on Govt steps

Poland’s Monsanto action lays 1000s of dead bees on Govt steps

Source: Food Freedom Ag Ministry begins process to ban MON810 On March 15, over 1,500 beekeepers and their allies marched thru the streets of Warsaw, depositing thousands of dead bees on the steps of the Ministry of Agriculture, in protest of genetically modified foods and their requisite ...