Bee Facts:
1. Honey Bees are not native to the US. Europeans brought them with them to fertilize their crops.
2. 30% of all food we eat needs to be fertilized by the Honey Bee.
3. Honey contains every vitamin and mineral our body needs.
4. If you buy honey in large grocery stores it has none of these vitamins and minerals because it has been heated to 120 degrees to keep it from crystalizing on the shelf.
5. Honey will cure wounds and burns.
6. Honey is twice as sweet as honey but contains the same calories...and all the added nutrients, if you buy from a small honey producer.
7. Bees are Amazing!
Honey At The Table
It fills you with the soft
essence of vanished flowers, it becomes
a trickle sharp as a hair that you follow
from the honey pot over the table
and out the door and over the ground,
and all the while it thickens,
grows deeper and wilder, edged
with pine boughs and wet boulders,
pawprints of bobcat and bear, until
deep in the forest you
shuffle up some tree, you rip the bark,
you float into and swallow the dripping combs,
bits of the tree, crushed bees - - - a taste
composed of everything lost, in which everything lost is found.
essence of vanished flowers, it becomes
a trickle sharp as a hair that you follow
from the honey pot over the table
and out the door and over the ground,
and all the while it thickens,
grows deeper and wilder, edged
with pine boughs and wet boulders,
pawprints of bobcat and bear, until
deep in the forest you
shuffle up some tree, you rip the bark,
you float into and swallow the dripping combs,
bits of the tree, crushed bees - - - a taste
composed of everything lost, in which everything lost is found.
~ Mary Oliver~
4 comments:
Yum...honey...
I'm so impressed with all your blogging! Love the bee pics. :)
I think I have honey from Trader Joes right now. Oh dear.
Thanks Kate for the beeeeeeautiful pictures, and the info on the bees and their honey! Shame on Emily - the honey in our kitchen is from Scholl's Orchard, and their bees pollinated the apples and peaches that we eat.
lovely, katie. so glad you got to discover bees some more.
i love it how there are so many things in this world that remind us of restoration "...in which everything lost is found..."
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