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Honey & Beekeeping Articles

This is a list of good articles that we have on our website or on other sites.

Beeswax & Honey Articles

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New for 2007 - Our Candle Catalog
This is a 30+ page report with over 90 images. It shows every item sold on our site.

Pure Beeswax Pillars - How We Make Them at the Farm

Pure Beeswax Hand-Dipped Tapers - How We Make Them at the Farm
How our Frames are made for our Hand-dipped Tapers

From Flower to Flame - How beeswax is made by the honeybees.

Beeswax - Its History & Uses - By Roger and Mary Sutherland - South Eastern Michigan Beekeepers Association  -  Beeswax was used by the Egyptians in painting and to protect the surface of painting in their tombs. The Greeks used it in making dolls.

Selection and Use of Honey on Wounds - P. C. Molan B.Sc. Ph.D. - Honey Research Unit, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
Honey is one of the oldest known medicines that has continued to be used up to present times in folk-medicine. Its use has been "rediscovered" in later times by the medical profession, especially for dressing wounds.

Candle Burning Tips - Just a collection of interesting Candle information.

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Beekeeping Articles

The Story of Pollination - An 8 page report with lots of pictures - from the National Honey Board.

Africanized Honey Bee UpDate - Article writen by Kim Kaplan, USDA-ARS Information Staff

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Misc Articles

How Honeyflow Farm was started - a bit of History

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Todays
Honey & Beekeeping FAQ:

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What do honeybees do in the winter?

Not very much.

Whenever the air temperature drops below 55 degrees or so, the honeybees start to form a ball shaped cluster inside the beehive. The colder it gets, the tighter the cluster is. Even with zero degrees outside the temperature inside the cluster may be 90 degrees.

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