April at
the Honey Farm, Online Honey Recipe Search Engine Launched,
New Beekeeping Organization, Tests Find Altered Honey,
Country Smoke House, April Honey Recipe!
April at the Honey Farm - Beekeeping
activities finally resume for us this month. We are
having more package bees shipped to us in mid April
to replace winter losses.
Click here to see package bees being installed.
This month we will also start
raising new queen bees from 2 breeder queens purchased
from Glenn Apiaries in California. These
are special SMR mite resistant queens (1 Russian &
1 Carniolan) that we will use to raise new queens for
the splits (new colonies) that we will make in May.
This is another way to replace losses and also to improve
the genetic quality of our colonies.
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Online Honey Recipe Search Engine
Launched
Early this month the National Honey Board launched
a new online recipe database that hosts over 1,000 honey-containing
recipes. Search for recipes by name, ingredient, category
or ingredient category. Visit
http://honey.com/recipes to start your search today!
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I just went to a great new beekeeeping
organization in our area. The "7 Ponds Beekeepers Club" just
had it's second meeting and there were more than 30
people in attendance. It is loosely affiliated with
South Eastern Michigan Beekeepers Association.
It was held in 7 Ponds Nature Center, an affiliate
of the Michigan Audubon Society, located in Dryden Township,
Lapeer County, Michigan - only a few miles from us.
There was discussion about the clubs format,
a planning group was organized and arrangements were
made to obtain and install 2 beehives during April on
the 7 Ponds Nature Center property.
It's mission statement is to "Educate
Beginning Beekeepers Through Mentoring Programs."
It is a really great opportunity for new and seasoned
beekeepers to meet. They get together the 4th Tuesday
of the month from 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. For more information
you can contact myself or Nancy Schleibe at 1-810-395-7379.
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Country Smoke House is
another one of our local honey customers that you should
check out (they use honey in their sausage.) A really
great place for wild game and deer processing. They
specialize in elk, buffalo, and venison and also carry
a line of fresh meats such as: bear, caribou, emu, boar,
turkey, beef, pork, etc. They ship Wild Game Gift
Boxes all over the country.
Visit them at: http://www.countrysmokehouseinc.com/
call or contact them at: smokin@klondyke.ne t
or 1-810-798-3064
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Tests Find Altered Honey
(This report shows how important it is to buy honey
from a local producer!)
Honey that has been ultrafiltered is still coming into
the U.S. labeled as pure honey. Some shipments are being
located. Let's hope lots more is found and labeled correctly.
And, that the shippers are punished.
On February 2 Columbia Food Laboratories, Inc. and
the National Honey Board began the reduced fee testing
program to accept samples of imported honey from packers
and importers. The lab is conducting a series of three
tests to make a determination as to whether the sample
is pure honey or suspected of being an altered sweetener
product.
In the first month the lab tested 69 honey samples
sent in by 13 different companies. Nine of the 69 samples
were found to be suspected of being the altered sweetener
product rather than pure honey. Of the 9 suspect samples,
7 were from China, 1 was from Turkey and the origin
of 1 was unknown.
Bee Culture Magazine http://www.beeculture.com/beeculture/index.html
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April Honey Recipe - from Honey.com
Honey-Kissed Fruit (Microwave Method)
- Using Grapes & Honey -
The recipe ....
This
Month at the Honey Farm
