Campos de Aromas y Zumbidos > HONEY

06/11/2025

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20250417-the-baffling-purple-honey-found-only-in-north-carolina?ocid=fbfut&fbclid=IwY2xjawK2V49leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHn4w4SIOePTrC8TFLYXM4M6ISfPKCRx-bfeUEcHcF7Uj8CHp6JJCSj3wAEBB_aem_WM6ZzlmFtjd-BqdZSfzXBg

In a quiet corner of North Carolina, bees produce a violet-hued honey so rare and unpredictable that even experts can't explain it – and that's what makes it magical.

04/25/2025

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/centuries-old-maya-beekeeping-tools-unearthed-mexico-180984405/

Archaeologists in the Yucatán Peninsula found several stone lids used by the pre-Columbian civilization to collect honey from stingless bees

06/09/2024

Had an opportunity to collect a hive from a fallen bee tree.

03/14/2023

https://www.facebook.com/100071182475635/posts/249090260807055/

02/24/2023

Next year will make 20 years of beekeeping for me, but I am going to start the celebration a little early since a friend just shared this picture of me with my first colonies! Three months in and I had already moved them from an in-the-way-of-mowing, very-hard-to-get-to back field overgrown in hemlock to this sweet hilltop---> my learning curve was grand and I had so much fun! Bee adventures one after the other. And I have to share gratitude for the many supportive/unwitting friends and family who have helped along the way! Most of all my Mom, who has been an essential partner in this tremendous Hobby! I am pleased to report this year is starting off strong with 6 of 7 hives that survived the winter filling the maple tree blooms with their buzzing wings! Stacking them high this year! I just love keeping bees.

01/01/2023

https://www.facebook.com/134343659953472/posts/5664825916905191/?flite=scwspnss

'Happy New Year'
A Person Fed Honey On New Year's Day Stays Sweet All Year. - German Custom
Image: "Honey Hour Glass"

Happy New Year! -from: Historical Honeybee Articles - Beekeeping History

If you would remain sweet throughout the year eat honey on New Year's day. This prescription was given at the eighteenth annual meeting of the Chicago Northwestern Beekeepers Association during a discussions to the best means of producing a demand for honey. It was pointed out that in Germany honey was found on every table and was used far more extensively than in America. On New Year's day, it is said, every person in Germany eats honey in order that that his disposition might remain sweet during the whole year. -The Washington Post, December 24, 1914 Washington, District Of Columbia

This is probably a Judaism tradition from central Europe which includes Germany. Before supper, a sweet apple with new honey is always eaten by the family , in anticipation of a "sweet new year ." Other parts of Europe, honey is eaten New Years Eve or New Years Day to bring good luck in the new year, or sometimes translated as bringing a sweet new year, or other similar interpretation.

Romans would celebrate January 1st by offering sacrifices to Janus in the hope of gaining good fortune for the New Year, decorating their homes with laurel branches and attending raucous parties. This day was seen as setting the stage for the next twelve months, and it was common for friends and neighbours to make a positive start to the year by exchanging well wishes and gifts of figs and honey with one another.

10/02/2022

Fun with honeybees:
https://www.facebook.com/100059465982787/posts/494810735844455/?flite=scwspnss&mibextid=jj4577Dmmt1TazHb

Artist Wolfgang Buttress collaborated with a multidisciplinary team to create a giant, metallic hive