What is Local Honey?

Everybody is talking about it, but what it is? Definitions seem to vary based on who you talk too.  Why is it important?

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Need Pollinators?

BOBILIN HONEY offers pollination services from 2 hives for your Michigan backyard garden or many hives for your commercial pollination needs.

Honey: Things to Know

The FDA does not have any standards for honey. So you can call corn syrup and water honey. There is no official definition for Local Honey or Raw Honey that I can find.

About Bob the Bee Guy

I took Beekeeping Classes 9 years ago and started to raise bees (2) hives to pollinate my garden. I use to get 12-24 cucumbers now I get bushels from the same amount plants. I started with 2 hives and now have between 150 & 200.

News from Bob the Bee Guy

The July Basswood Honey flow is coming???

by | Jun 27, 2012 |

  In SE Michiganthe Basswood honey flow is the biggest honey flow of the year. But this year it might be different.  With hardly any rain, the trees might be to dry to produce Nectar. I have been watching the sweet clover and I do not see any bees working it,...

The Bee Informed Partnership

by | Apr 21, 2012 |

The Bee Informed Partnership, a joint project among numerous universities and laboratories, is a project whose aim is to help beekeepers make better management decisions and thus reduce colony losses. To do this effectively, we need beekeepers, lots of beekeepers, to...

Early Summer Temperatures Can Drive Beekeepers Crazy

Early Summer Temperatures Can Drive Beekeepers Crazy

by | Apr 21, 2012 |

Early summer temps can drive Beekeepers crazy & Awesome video Paid advertisment: I still have Nucs available All the Beekeepers might know this but everyone else might be interested in what is going on with the beekeepers and this crazy weather. Have not written a...