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Looking for the perfect gift that’s also friendly to mother nature? We’ve highlighted our top five favorite sustainable gifts to give to the ones you love! Beeswax Food Wrap Beeswax food wrap is a natural (and beautiful) alternative to plastic wax. It’s reusable, breathable, and easy to work with. Made…
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Beacon Capital Partners, a major player in the commercial real estate market, knows that their tenants prefer to work at properties focused on sustainability. That’s why they’ve made sustainability a cornerstone of their investment philosophy. In 2014 we approached Beacon with a novel way to bring their important but often…
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Searching for fresh ideas to improve your bottom-line next year? Consider a small investment with a surprising return: beekeeping. Corporate, hospitality, and property managers in cities across America are learning that beekeeping can be very good for business. Why? Bees are in the news. Everyone is concerned about them. We…
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Keeping bees and harvesting honey can have a significant impact on your company’s sustainability profile. Here are seven proven ways a little gold will give your brand a decidedly green color: Beekeeper, Nico holding up a full frame of honey from in Downtown Boston Good citizenship. An individual honey bee…
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The Media love bees. They’re a perennial source of stories, with appeal to a wide range of consumer and business audiences. Their plight—and their importance as pollinators to our food supply—has captured the attention of the world. While progress is being made in addressing colony collapse disorder, it’s still a…
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Autumn is a time when we’re most thankful for the care and dedication of our beekeepers. Before the really cold weather comes, they have one last opportunity to clean out and reorganize our client beehives to ensure they are prepared and supported for winter. Co-Founder, Noah Wilson-Rich consolidating beehives at…
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At The Best Bees Company, we support locally grown and raised food. We find fall to be one of the best seasons to eat locally–there are so many just-harvested fruits and vegetables available, including our own honey. Here are some delicious new fall recipes we’ve found that use both. Enjoy!…
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In November the days are crisp, the nights cool. It’s a month when we can come home to the smell of wood fire in the evening air, and the enticing aroma of hearty fall meals. It’s a time to be thankful for the bounty that nature brings forth and to…
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Apitherapy Versus Beekeeping Therapy A small, niche type of therapy exists in the world – beekeeping therapy! This is not to be confused with apitherapy, which is the use of bee byproducts such as venom, honey, wax, propolis, and royal jelly as medicinal products. Instead, beekeeping therapies are centered around…
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Harvesting season is upon us, so we thought it would be a great time to go over the health benefits of honey and beeswax! First – honey. Worker bees gather nectar from flowers and younger hive bees convert the nectar into honey by beating their wings to fan and evaporate…
