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September is National Honey Month, and the golden liquid seems to deserve the honor. Americans consume about 1.5 pounds of honey per person annually, and there are more than 300 unique types of honey in the U.S. alone. Honey is ...

So, you have planted your garden and are looking forward to eating all that fresh produce. Did you know that you can make your garden even more productive by planting flowers? That’s right, flowers. Attracting pollinators to your garden can impact how ...

I still remember the first time I got stung by a bee. I was four or five and was in the back of my mom’s car. I adjusted the way I was sitting just a little bit … and a ...

Honey may have increased in popularity with the growing demand for natural food, but a missing key ingredient from the sticky substance could create unhealthy consequences for some consumers. A total of 76 percent of all store-bought honey in the ...

As homesteaders and peppers, we tend to think that we wrote the book on preparedness and self-sufficiency. The simple truth of the matter is that the real book on preparedness was written by the humblest of God’s creatures, the insect. ...

Heirloom sweet corn, picked right from the stalk and then boiled immediately, is one of the most highly anticipated treats of the summer garden. Corn originated as a modest grass in the Mexican plateaus and spread north and south from ...

Honey isn’t honey anymore, and the FDA is apparently just fine with that. Despite being pushed by Congress, food activists, the American honey industry, and beekeepers, the wise souls which hoisted the Monsanto Protection Act upon us refuses to establish ...