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03-20-2015, 09:19 AM
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Senior Member
Name: Norm and Ginny
Trailer: Scamp 16
Florida
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Honey and Bees
Yesterday the bee lady came to our park to speak. Her company owns 5000 hives and travels the country pollinating crops, literally from CA to Maine to Florida. The bee lady is 60 yet has the skin of a youngster and spoke of the health benefits of bee 'stuff' going well beyond the relatively known benefits of honey.
We always visit her store here in Wauchula, always picking up a case of Orange Blossum honey for our trip to Newfoundland, small gifts for new people we meet.
One of the best parts of life is all there is to learn, and RVing continues to expose me to 'new'.
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03-20-2015, 09:32 AM
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Senior Member
Name: jim
Trailer: 2022 Escape19 pulled by 2014 Dodge Ram Hemi Sport
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thanks for sharing....
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03-20-2015, 09:42 AM
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Senior Member
Name: Norm and Ginny
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Florida
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Hoping to learn what others know about bees.
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03-21-2015, 08:20 AM
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Member
Name: Jim
Trailer: ventura 1300
Ontario
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BEES
Always like reading about your travels , Have you ever been to BEETON ?,
I used to live there , and it got its name from a BEE MAN that used to live there and was at one time called BEE TOWN, its 1 hour north of Toronto in Ontario , and thats in Canada . hehehehe
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03-21-2015, 08:23 AM
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Senior Member
Name: Adrian
Trailer: 2016 Escape 5.0TA
Manitoba
Posts: 428
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And every summer Beeton has a honey festival!
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03-21-2015, 09:20 AM
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Junior Member
Name: Mark and Cindy
Trailer: Scamp
Minnesota
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Honey & oil works as a face wash, too!
Hi. Love this post and the reminder about how important bees are to us. I've been mixing up 1 teaspoon of raw honey and 1 teaspoon of organic extra virgin olive oil (or grape seed oil) to use as a cleanser, and it's the best. It also saves space, since it's already in the pantry.
Cindy
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03-21-2015, 10:27 AM
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My dad had hives, while he was living. In fact, I still have a quart of honey, I can not bring myself to open. Surprisingly, it has not yet crystalized. He has been gone for 20 years.
I try to make honey, my go to sweetener.
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03-21-2015, 11:36 AM
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Senior Member
Name: Mike
Trailer: 2001 Spirit Deluxe 17" K5NAN
Texas
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Honey is the only food source that will never go bad- ever. Many ancient jars found that are thousands of years old. Just put the crystalized honey in warm water and good as new.
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03-21-2015, 11:39 AM
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Senior Member
Name: Norm and Ginny
Trailer: Scamp 16
Florida
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Emergency food
Quote:
Originally Posted by Terry R.
My dad had hives, while he was living. In fact, I still have a quart of honey, I can not bring myself to open. Surprisingly, it has not yet crystalized. He has been gone for 20 years.
I try to make honey my go to sweetener.
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We keep a stash of food at our homes and honey is part of the supply,
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03-21-2015, 11:44 AM
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Senior Member
Name: Mike
Trailer: 2001 Spirit Deluxe 17" K5NAN
Texas
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I am not a prepper (yet) but I do have about 3 quarts that I have purchased of raw honey from street stands of farmers and bee keepers and I am just storing it for future use.
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03-21-2015, 11:49 AM
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Senior Member
Name: Norm and Ginny
Trailer: Scamp 16
Florida
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I only buy raw honey.
Ginny and I took Chinese cooking lessons from a lady who had moved here from Formosa. After moving here she was allergic to all kinds of pollen. She went to a doctor and took a large series of shots. They worked but after a year the symptoms were back. A friend said don't go to a doctor, consume local honey instead. Eating local honey daily solved the problem.
In her store she sells Lo-cal honey. My son asked, Dad where do you get lo(w) cal(oric) honey?
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03-21-2015, 01:42 PM
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Senior Member
Trailer: Casita 17 ft Spirit Deluxe 2007
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For longer food storage, and less mess, I often use, Cox's raw creamed honey. It is delicious and spreads beautifully. It is especially nice for camping, as long as you don't let it get too warm.
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03-21-2015, 10:26 PM
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Senior Member
Name: Mike
Trailer: 2012 Escape 19
Oklahoma
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Creamed honey, that is a new one to me so I had to go to their website and read how they make it.
My wife lately buys raw honey produced locally, because she has had some allergies and she read that eating local honey can help the body reduce its allergic response to the local allergens. Like that lady from Formosa, my wife thinks it is working for her, too.
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03-22-2015, 08:06 AM
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Member
Name: Jim
Trailer: ventura 1300
Ontario
Posts: 55
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Thanks Emrs382 ,
I had forgot about that , The festival is in may if I remember right , around the long weekend .
JvR
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03-22-2015, 08:07 AM
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Senior Member
Name: Tim
Trailer: '88 Scamp 16, layout 4
North Florida
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike Magee
Creamed honey, that is a new one to me so I had to go to their website and read how they make it.
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Wow, creamed honey is some of my favorite stuff in the world and I had forgotten about it. I also like bacon a lot, but I did not forget bacon.
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03-23-2015, 11:06 AM
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Member
Name: Steve
Trailer: 16' Scamp
California
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A very nice topic! Brings back memories of my childhood, because my Dad was a part time Bee Keeper. We always had loads of honey and one memory is of turning a jars upside down and watching an air bubble rise up and pop. Also, we had orange honey, the best. And, buckwheat was pretty darn good too.
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03-23-2015, 10:15 PM
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Senior Member
Name: Adrian
Trailer: 2016 Escape 5.0TA
Manitoba
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jvrayner
Thanks Emrs382 ,
I had forgot about that , The festival is in may if I remember right , around the long weekend .
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Right it is May 23 this year. I have in laws in Beeton and we used to go to the honey festival when we lived in Shelburne from 07-13.
Adrian
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03-23-2015, 11:10 PM
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Senior Member
Name: Mark
Trailer: 1969 Boler (Flat Top)
British Columbia
Posts: 530
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I'm a huge honey fan. So true about aiding in allergy immunity.
For those in the metro Vancouver area check out the Honey Bee Centre in Langley, BC. They rent there bees to local farmers for pollination. They drive the hive to a farm release the bees. The bees return to the Queen in the hive and drive back to the centre.
This allows them to make a large variety of honey types. The taste differences are quite pronounced. They have a a sampling table and different varieties depending on time of year.
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03-24-2015, 12:00 AM
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Senior Member
Name: Pat
Trailer: Escape 17B Sold 5/2016
Washington
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Years ago I met a beekeeper bought, a hive from him and started a beekeeping hobby that lasted for about 10 years. Over time the first hive became two, then two became four, etc. I think there were eight hives by the time I "retired" from the hobby. For a couple years I was in an area where the "ladies" gave us clover honey and later when I lived across from a mint farm we had some real tasty mint honey.
Beekeeping was almost as much fun as milking the goat that insisted on licking my face before letting me milk her.
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Life is Good
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03-25-2015, 08:27 AM
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Member
Name: Jim
Trailer: ventura 1300
Ontario
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H I , emers382 , What's your wife maidan name .? Maybe I know the family , or my daughters know your wife,
JvR
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