Bee Gifts for Busy Bees
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Honey Gifts: Beeswax Products, Candle Kits, How-to Books and Bee Novelties
Are you looking for a unique gourmet honey gift or bee gift this holiday season? If you can't make it to the Oregon Ridge Honey Harvest Festival or the Maryland Honey Harvest Festival this year you can still buy unique presents like flavored honeys from Maryland apiaries, beeswax candles, candle making kits, how to books, beeswax hand cremes and other unique bee gifts like bee jewelry and bee slippers. While you're here take the honey poll, watch cool videos about honey bees and see who's buzzing about bees on twitter. I hope you enjoy your visit!
Contents at a Glance
Gourmet Gifts - Maryland Honey
- BEES BY THE BAY
- Browse honey gifts harvested by Baltimore County's very own Bees By The Bay.
- GOURMET MARYLAND HONEY
- Voted 'TOP 5 Wildflower Honeys' in MD and VA by The Washington Post -Sept 07
- LORD BYRON'S HONEY
- Our honey is the closest you can get to a hive with out being stung.
- HONEY THING
- Our honey, made from the wide variety of blooms in the scenic Middletown Valley of Maryland is sold in elegant glass jars.
- NAKEDBEE APIARIES
- We offer a variety of products including fresh raw honey - never heated or filtered - raw comb honey and bee pollen granules.
There are many flavors of honey available from local aviaries. Have you tried these? Take the honey poll:
Honey Poll
Use this link to find honey products in the Continental USA.
USA Honey Locator
- THE HONEY LOCATOR
- The Honey Locator is a website you can use to find USA suppliers of many varieties of honey.
Honeybee Waggle Dance
It takes over 500 worker bees to gather 1 pound of honey from about 2 million flowers, and all worker bees are female. You go, girls!
Raw Honey Gifts
Baking with Honey
Substituting honey for sugar alters the flavor and tends to make baked goods moister, chewier and darker.
Honey recipes on twitter
Prized since ancient times, proponents claim that fragrant beeswax candles burn longer and cleaner than ordinary wax candles.
Beeswax Candles
Beeswax Candle Making Kits
Candle Making Books
Honeybees and bumblebees are beneficial insects because they pollinate crops and plants. They are very social bees and live in large families, called hives.
Beeswax Hand Cremes
The buzz about Honeybees
Honeybees' wings flap 11,000 times per minute, which is why it sounds like they are buzzing.
Cute Bee Jewelry
Bee Stationery Gifts
- BEE GREETING CARDS
- Get pretty bee cards and note cards, perfect stationery for bee keepers and gardeners
Beekeepers use smoke to sedate bees so that they can collect honey or relocate the hive.
Books about Beekeeping
Even the White House
has it's own bee hive!
It's located on the South lawn.
Over 140 lbs of honey
were collected in 2010.
The Art of BeeKeeping
Beekeeping demystified!
The Masai tribe in Africa use smoke to force the African honeybees to flee their hive so that they can collect honey safely. Really.
Novelty Bee Gifts
Beeswax Soaps
"If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would only have four years left to live." So said Albert Einstein. The honey bee's survival is crucial for agriculture because honey bees pollinate most of mankind's fruit and nut crops.
Silence of the Bees
- SILENCE OF THE BEES
- Watch this informative PBS video online about the complex issues honey bees are facing around the world.
Help Save Bees Website
- HELP SAVE BEES
- Learn what you can do to help save bees in the UK on this British website.
Bee Bloggers
- BEES IN FRANCE
- A fabulous bee blog from France full of great information.
- BEEKEEPER'S DAUGHTER
- Another fantastic bee blog based right here in Washington, DC!
Twitter: buzz on bees
Read the all the latest bee tweets on twitter
Be a honey and sign my guest book!
Thanks for visiting my Bee and honey gift store. Are you a beekeeper or a gourmet cook? Maybe you have a honey recipe to share. Personally I like a spoonful of locust honey added to a cup of Trader Joe's decaf Irish breakfast tea.Thanks for buzzing by!
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Inkhand
Jan 4, 2012 @ 6:46 pm | delete
- A lens buzzing with fun.
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NatureMaven
Jan 4, 2012 @ 8:38 pm | delete
- I saw a video once that showed people somewhere in the far east dangling from tall scaffolding and collecting honey as the bees were swarming around them! That's what I call extreme honey harvesting. Thanks for the visit.
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cffutah
Sep 17, 2011 @ 2:31 pm | delete
- tons and tons and tons on bees! I really like the poll questions too. I love them so much that I've got 5 on my lens (lol) ... feel free to see mine if you like browsing lens.
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NatureMaven
Dec 20, 2010 @ 10:51 am | delete
- Thanks so much, GramaBarb! Your lenses are so good, I am honored by your compliment. Happy Holidays!
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GramaBarb
Dec 19, 2010 @ 1:14 pm | delete
- Wonderful collection of everything Bee!
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What is mead?
An alcoholic liquor made by fermenting honey and water.
History of Mead Making
- WIKIPEDIA
- Learn all about honey wine and the history of mead making.
Books on Mead Making
Maryland Honey Harvest Festivals
- MARYLAND HONEY HARVEST FESTIVAL
- Held at Patuxent Research Refuge National Wildlife Visitor Center in Laurel, Md. Sponsored by the Maryland State Beekeepers Association.
- OREGON RIDGE HONEY HARVEST FESTIVAL
- A Baltimore County tradition, held at Oregon Ridge Park in Hunt Valley.
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