Health Benefits – Keeping Backyard Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com Wed, 21 Apr 2021 15:23:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i2.wp.com/www.keepingbackyardbees.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Health Benefits – Keeping Backyard Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com 32 32 Top 7 Reasons for Cranky Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/top-7-reasons-for-cranky-bees/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/top-7-reasons-for-cranky-bees/#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2020 10:22:03 +0000 http://backyardbees.wpengine.com/?p=1606 Cranky Bees. They are one of the worst nightmares of a beekeeper. Cranky bees are not enjoyable to keep. They have aggressive tendencies and are overprotective of the hive. Often when you have cranky bees, you will be unable to get near the hive or you will get stung. Sometimes these bees chase you for just […]

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]]> https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/top-7-reasons-for-cranky-bees/feed/ 19 6 Amazing Benefits of Honey for Your Face and Skin https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/benefits-of-honey-for-face-and-skin-zbwz1911zsau/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/benefits-of-honey-for-face-and-skin-zbwz1911zsau/#comments Tue, 05 Nov 2019 19:26:03 +0000 https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=4488 Bees are some of nature’s biggest miracle workers. They support the worldwide agriculture industry, help plants pollinate each year, and keep the world running by flying around with their tiny, fuzzy bodies covered in pollen. They’re a precious resource for both humans and the natural world, especially because they produce honey. Honey has been used […]

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]]> https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/benefits-of-honey-for-face-and-skin-zbwz1911zsau/feed/ 4 Honey vs. Sugar https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/honey-vs-sugar-zbwz1908zsau/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/honey-vs-sugar-zbwz1908zsau/#comments Thu, 01 Aug 2019 18:26:17 +0000 https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=4419 It’s an old story that sweeteners can be bad for our health if we use them excessively, but the question is which one is better for our health – sugar or honey? While the effect of honey is similar to sugar’s effect, honey is well known for being more nutritious, and therefore healthy. But the […]

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]]> https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/honey-vs-sugar-zbwz1908zsau/feed/ 2 Local, Raw, Pure or Natural Honey? https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/local-raw-pure-or-natural-honey-zbwz1902zsau/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/local-raw-pure-or-natural-honey-zbwz1902zsau/#comments Wed, 27 Feb 2019 21:31:08 +0000 https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=4317 Sometimes it feels like you need to be a lawyer or a chemist to really understand what you’re buying from the grocery store. Wouldn’t it be nice if food was just food and we could read a label and take it at face value? Unfortunately, that is not the case. In recent years, many companies […]

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]]> https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/local-raw-pure-or-natural-honey-zbwz1902zsau/feed/ 4 Beeswax Uses for Around the Home https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/beeswax-uses-for-around-the-home-zbwz1810zsau/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/beeswax-uses-for-around-the-home-zbwz1810zsau/#comments Wed, 31 Oct 2018 20:15:38 +0000 https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=4150 We all know that beeswax makes great candles, but did you know that it has many household uses? This is especially true in the movement away from commercially-made cosmetics and cleaning products. Beeswax can be a useful ingredient to have around the home. What is beeswax? Beeswax is created in eight wax-producing glands on a […]

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]]> https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/beeswax-uses-for-around-the-home-zbwz1810zsau/feed/ 2 Beeswax Citrus Soap Recipe https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/beeswax-citrus-soap-recipe-zbwz1802zsau/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/beeswax-citrus-soap-recipe-zbwz1802zsau/#comments Sat, 24 Feb 2018 22:12:05 +0000 https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=3869 I am experimenting with different varieties of handmade soap and I recently made some citrus soap bars. They turned out great, so I want to share this variation using a base of gentle olive oil soap with beeswax. I call it Beeswax Citrus Soap. Beeswax softens and protects skin from environmental elements and is naturally nourishing, antibacterial, and anti-allergenic. […]

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]]> https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/beeswax-citrus-soap-recipe-zbwz1802zsau/feed/ 5 Bee-Friendly Beauty Products https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/bee-friendly-beauty-products-zbwz1802zsau/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/bee-friendly-beauty-products-zbwz1802zsau/#comments Mon, 12 Feb 2018 07:45:35 +0000 https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=3798 Visiting more than 2 million flowers to produce a single pound of honey, bees are some of the hardest workers on our planet — and quite possibly nature’s best cosmetologists. These wondrous winged creatures pollinate about one-sixth of the world’s flowering plant species and about 400 agricultural plants, and from their hard work springs forth […]

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]]> https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/bee-friendly-beauty-products-zbwz1802zsau/feed/ 2 A Taste of Honey https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/a-taste-of-honey-zbwz1802zsau/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/a-taste-of-honey-zbwz1802zsau/#comments Sat, 03 Feb 2018 18:36:12 +0000 https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=3820 Good raw unpasteurized honey tastes very different from the plastic clover honey bear that you purchase at the supermarket. I compare it to processed cheese vs. a homemade varietal cheese. Honey bears are simply an accumulation of many types of honey that have been mixed together, heated, and made into a homogeneous mixture which lacks […]

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]]> https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/a-taste-of-honey-zbwz1802zsau/feed/ 8 From Which Plant Did Your Honey Come? https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/from-which-plant-did-your-honey-come/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/from-which-plant-did-your-honey-come/#comments Fri, 24 Jul 2015 17:02:47 +0000 http://keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=1856 Honey comes from bees right? Well, sort of. It could be said that honey actually comes from plants and that bees are the manufacturers that turn pollen and nectar into honey. Behind every drop of honey is the work of many, many bees collecting nectar of a hundred or more flowers. Plants need bees, bees […]

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]]> https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/from-which-plant-did-your-honey-come/feed/ 5 Reasons for Hive Inspections https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/reasons-for-hive-inspections/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/reasons-for-hive-inspections/#comments Mon, 27 Apr 2015 23:37:31 +0000 http://keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=1484 Each time I open the hive, I risk injuring or killing the queen. Each time I open the hive I set the hive back. The bees have to repair what I messed up! When I first started as a backyard bee keeper I loved to look in the hives. I wanted to get in there every few days to check things out. I did not realize there should be a PURPOSE for each inspection. Here I share some reasons for hive inspections.

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