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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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My introduction to The Best Bees Company occurred when I heard one of the partners, Noah Wilson-Rich, Ph.D., speak at a New York City Beekeepers Association meeting. This new and rewarding chapter in my life began a year earlier at the Brooklyn Grange Farm, where I enrolled in a beekeeper trainee program…
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My name is Alex Sanchez, and I’m a 24-year-old artist and designer living in Portland, Oregon. As a Puerto Rican who was lucky enough to grow up in both the U.S. and on the island, I embrace my multiculturalism and find that it has affected both my life and art…
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It’s that time of the year again when the weather is bleak, and we’re getting tired of cooking. For those of you in need of a quick, tasty snack without the effort associated with the holiday season, look no further. Spiced nuts are the perfect treat that can be cooked…
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As a biology student at Northeastern University, I was fascinated with ecology and sustainability. Northeastern offers an amazing co-op program that allows students to leave the classroom and work in their field professionally for 6 months. Being in Boston, most co-op jobs were in the pharmaceutical industry, which I found…
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The First Beekeepers Deep in a cave in Valencia, Spain, nestled amongst primitive paintings of bygone creatures, is the first evidence of humans gathering honey. The Neolithic drawing shows a man on a ladder with one hand in a hive and the other holding a smoking branch to pacify the…
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At the Best Bees Company, we’re working hard to figure out how to create better, healthier bees. Several factors including habitat loss, pesticide use, and disease have caused declines in wild and domesticated bee populations in recent years. It may be surprising to know that anyone can make their backyard…
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Before wine, there was mead. The earliest evidence of mead dates back to 7500 BC in Northern China, where traces of fermented honey were found in pottery. Mead is made by fermenting honey in water and adding various fruits and spices for flavor. This made it the ideal alcoholic beverage for areas…
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Here at the The Best Bees Company, we have a lot of beeswax. Between wax cappings from honey harvesting, and old retired frames, all that wax adds up. We don’t want it to go to waste, considering how hard the bees work to make it. In order to reuse the wax, we…
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The Flow Hive could usher in a new era of beekeeping. Billed as the “no mess, no fuss” approach to the laborious task of harvesting honey, the Flow Hive allows beekeepers to collect their harvest without disturbing the hive. The secret is its innovative frame design: each hive comes with prefabricated…
