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Take a garden stroll through some of our favorite finds of bites, bottles, & bees. The Beehive Shoppe blog called Rooster & Bee is a collection of the very best of bees.
Bee Symbolism Around the World - The Bringers of Good Luck
Dena Kennedy
Bees are the bringers of good luck and prosperity. Charms in the shape of a honey bee are especially good for attracting wealth - so says thousands of years of culture & symbolism. The same goes for coins with a honey bee symbol. If they are gold they are even more powerful. These charms and coins obviously are lucky for success in business.
Bees are magnificent as far as productivity and industry is concerned. They produce beeswax and honey which are golden. Gold and the golden color have always been related to wealth. They certainly know how to sting to protect their wealth.
In Egypt the bee was the emblem of Lower Egypt. The bee was a symbol of the giver of life; birth, death and resurrection. It was believed the tears of Ra became the first working bees. Ra was the Sun god and Egypt’s most important deity.
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Personalized art is still the highest trending gift across the internet
Col. Sanders 20 Favorite Recipes cookbook - 100% FREE
Dena Kennedy
This fantastic collection of vintage recipes includes classic American cooking from Col. Sanders - founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken. From Butter-Thin Pancakes to Old Fashioned Huckleberry Cake you’ll love remaking these wonderful recipes.
Butter Thin Pancakes - Pecan Pie - French Fired Parsnips - Kentucky Biscuits - Chess Pie - Lemon Sponge Cake - Roquefort Dressing - Col. Sanders’ Special Dressing - Old Fashioned Buckwheat Cakes - Carrot Almond Rings - Transparent Squash - Creamy Tomato Soup - Puffy Meat Pattys - Bean Salad - Southern Spoon Bread - Kentucky Style Buttermilk Pie - Mrs. Sander’s Dinner Rolls - Harland’s Waffles - Hot Water Crusts - Old Fashioned Huckleberry Cake.
EASY DIGITAL DOWNLOAD: This is a digital download of the entire vintage cookbook. It's easily viewed on any pc or Mac computer, I-pad or other tablet devices or on your smart phone. Print off any recipes or simply keep them on your device. You'll love how easy this is.
Beekeeper Gifts - All $1 - Now this is a Cool Idea !!
Dena Kennedy
What a great idea - Personalized art vintage style. Here are a few really cool gift ideas:
Vintage Personalized Art - All $1 - Now this is a Cool Idea !!
Dena Kennedy
What a great idea - Personalized art vintage style. Here are a few really cool gift ideas:
🐝 Vintage Decorating Ideas You'll Love
Dena Kennedy
When it comes to finding fun ways to decorate - mixing in vintage decor with modern has become once the warmest ways to warm up your home. Your grandparents garage, yard sales, and second hand stores are inexpensive ways to add a personal touch to your home. Here is some inspriation below:
🐝... See how Florida Beekeeper Prepares for Hurricane Ian -
Dena Kennedy
Watch how Snyder’s Hives and Honey prepare their hives for an approaching hurricane … Good luck everyone and stay safe!
🐝.. These Houston Veterans Have Found a Post-Service Mission: Beekeeping
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Mentor Tim Schmitz (right) teaches “newbee” James Burns about beekeeping. Tim Schmitz/Courtesy Hives for Heroes
HOUSTON, TX. Through Houston-based nonprofit Hives for Heroes, veterans trade their uniforms for bee suits, work to save pollinators, and learn mindfulness. CLICK HERE to read more..
By Robyn Ross for TexasMonthly.com
🐝 How to help bees survive a heat wave
Dena Kennedy
How to help bees survive a heat wave -
People aren't the only ones stressed by extreme summer heat. Bees feel it too. Many gardeners put out shallow trays of water and pebbles to help the bees. What is the science behind this?
The bees distribute droplets of water around the nest, which works in parallel with the fanning to create the equivalent of honey bee air conditioning…..
CLICK HERE to read more…
Thank you to Oregon State University for this helpful information
🐝 Strawberry and Bee Layered Cake.. Fun and Easy!
Dena Kennedy
We saw this adorable and whimsical strawberry and bee cake and couldn’t resist making it on our own! It is surprisingly easy to make. No matter how great or small your baking skills are.. don’t be afraid to give this cake a try! Follow our simple steps below - or take our ideas and come up with something on your own - we’d love to see what you come up with!
CAKE RECIPE
You can use your own recipe or any boxed cake mix. We think that a yellow cake may be best because it lends itself to the whole feeling of a beehive.
Also, you’ll need 3-4 cans of pre-prepared frosting or your own favorite recipe.
Supplies.. supplies.. supplies
The one special item you’ll need is a round metal bowl. This bowl needs to be close to the size of the cake pans (don’t worry if it’s a little too big, you can cut it down with a bread knife after cooking.) Other than a round metal bowl, you’ll just need 9” round cake pans.
Bake away -
Following the directions on the box, bake four 9” rounds plus 1 dome top. This will make the cake really large and also very cute!
Chill out… cool it and rest
Remove the cakes from their pans after baking and let rest for 2-3 hours before decorating. You’ll want them to be cool so the frosting doesn’t get too warm and melt.
Layers and More….. Set Up Your Beehive Layers
Next, gently assemble all the layers on top of each other, using frosting to secure each layer. You’ll use alot of frosting!
Decorate it baby!
Once the cake is assembled and frosted all the way around you’re ready to decorate!
Wiggle We Go - Wiggle on Green Vines
Using your cake decorating tools, wiggle green vines all along the bottom and up the sides. Then add sliced strawberries (see our pictures for details and ideas).
Accoutrements - add bees & other decorations
Add on pre-prepared bees, flowers, and ladybugs if you’d like - you can easily buy these little accoutrements from Michaels, Hobby Lobby, or any hobby/cake decorating store. Or, be creative and make your own! We made these from jelly beans and M&M’s
Show it off!
You’ve done it! What a fun cake you’ve made - Take it to a party and let all of your friends ooooh and aaaah over your adorable creation. And - send us a picture at orders@beehiveshoppe.com so we can show off your cake!
National Honey Bee Day was a lot of fun! 🐝
Dena Kennedy
Happy National Honey Bee Day!
Every year, on August 20th, Honey Bees rule the day! Local and national celebrations enrich and entertain families who wanna celebrate our beloved buzzing friends.
Honey Bee Costumes are selling out for this coming Halloween!
Texas, being huge Bee Lovers, had several local and statewide celebrations. Like in Tyler, and Austin, Texas! Families and thousands of people attended festivals with food trucks, live performances, and beekeeping demonstrations! We love our Texan Beekeepers keeping the art alive and well.
🐝 HOORAY FOR ANTS! New research shows ants could replace pesticides... and save the bees!
Dena Kennedy
Hooray for ants! New research shows ants could replace pesticides... and save the bees!
Reconsider the effect of pesticides on bees
By Charlotte Elton Euro News
Pesticides make bees “drunk”, wreaking havoc on their central nervous systems - but many of these harmful chemicals could be replaced by ants.
These are the conclusions of two separate studies on artificial sprays used to control pests.
Worldwide, farmers use more than 2.5 billion kilograms of pesticides every single year.
Agricultural scientists have developed more than 1,000 of these chemical compounds that are tailored to preserve food supplies by killing insects, fungi and weeds.
But pesticides can be immensely harmful to insects species - especially bees.
How do pesticides damage bees?
Bees are a vital part of the ecosystem. Without them, many other species would die out. In Europe, bees pollinate 80 per cent of wildflowers.
They’re also essential for agriculture, with roughly one third of global food production dependent on these pollinators.
But pesticides wreak havoc on bee central nervous systems, a new study has revealed.
The chemicals impair the pollinators' ability to fly in a straight line - making it difficult for them to forage for food.
Could ants replace pesticides?
Hope is not lost, however - scientists are increasingly turning to more sustainable forms of agriculture.
If you’ve ever tried to have a picnic in summer, you probably think of ants as pests.
Yet a new study has found that they can protect crops from damage just as well as pesticides.
An international study - published in the Journal Proceedings of Royal Society B today - has found that many species of ants have similar or higher efficacy than pesticides, at lower costs.
Ants protect crops from pests like caterpillars and bugs. Their labyrinthine-like tunnels also aerate the soil, helping plants suck up oxygen.
Researchers looked at 26 species of ants, and found that the critters could be a ‘promising tool’ in the fight against other pests.
But it’s not a new idea, the study’s authors state.
“Citrus growers in China were pioneers in biological control using ants centuries ago,” they write.
Ants can also cause damage to crops, because they protect pests like aphids and whiteflies - tiny creatures that produce honeydew, which ants like to eat.
However, these dangers can be offset through environmentally-friendly management practises, like sowing alternative sources of sugar for the ants to eat.
Special thanks to EuroNews and Charlotte Elton for this wonderful information CLICK HERE to read the full article on Euro News
This Wild Honey is taking over the Internet!
Dena Kennedy
Wild Wild Honey
Everyone loves honey, and now in our ever-expanding online world, bees, honey, and honey products are now in a renaissance! Alternative honey products like Manuka Honey have gotten global attention among others, turning them from local sellers, to global products.
Mad Honey - Photograph by Andrew Newey
However, Mad Honey has been taking the stage recently. It’s called mad honey for its psychedelic properties, which can make one see visions, and even has medicinal purposes. Its still a highly sought product in Asia, and since there is such a high demand, local tribespeople will make the dangerous climbs needed to gather the honey.
Harvesting the Mad -Honeycombs - Photograph by Andrew Newey
Twice a year, there is a daring run from the members of the Gurung Tribe to gather the Mad Honey with traditional ropes and beekeeping gear they’ve had for centuries. Deep in the Himalayas, they will hike to large caves, towering over fields of Rhododendrons - rare psychedelic flowers that the bees use to pollinate. These harvesters will risk their lives scaling up the cliffs of caves, and cutting the large combs down with tools. Instead of using professional climbing equipment, or more modern ropes, they continue to use their traditionally crafted ropes and gear. However, all this risk is worth quite the reward, since the honey is said to have hallucinogenic and spiritual effects. If you want to learn more about this rare, and interesting honey, Click Here.
Climbing the Ropes - Photograph by Andrew Newey
How to get rid of a bee's nest
Dena Kennedy
One of the most popular questions people ask about bees is - How to get rid of a Bumble bee nest. Bumble bees are social insects that tend to form colonies of their own. Each colony of bumble bees has a single queen. Bumble bee colonies are typically not as large as honey bee colonies - typically there are roughly 40-50 bees per nest. Bumble bees can sting multiple times and can be very painful. The good thing about bumble bees is that they tend to stay away from animals and humans.
It’s important that you not kill bumble bees. Their population is already threatened and we need bumble bees in our ecosystem for many of our plants and food products to survive. Make sure you know what variety of bees are in your garden or yard before you try to get ride of them.
All that being said here are three effective tricks to safely remove bees from your yard or garden:
1) Mixing up a vinegar spray is an easy way remove bumble bees. Mix equal parts of vinegar and water and put it into a spray bottle or can. Be sure to wear protective clothing and spray the hive at night while the bees are resting. This should do the trick !
2) Citrus is another good way to ward off bumble bees. Boil a pan of water with lemon slices in it. The water should boil down to about one-third and then put it in the spray bottle. Spray this around the hive and on surrounding flower beds.
3) The sweetest way to get rid of bumble bees without killing them is to use cinnamon . Simply sprinkle some ground cinnamon around the hive at night for a couple weeks and they’ll eventually get the hint.
45 Celebrity Photos - Now & Then ( This is so cool !!)
Dena Kennedy
We have collected these photos because they’re really fun to see -
Millions of Alaska-bound honeybees die at Atlanta airport
Dena Kennedy
Hundreds of pounds of honeybees were set to ship from the Lower 48 to beekeepers across Alaska last weekend, but died in transit when the crates carrying them were left for hours on a hot tarmac in Atlanta.
Soldotna beekeeper Sarah McElrea said the loss is devastating. She runs Sarah’s Alaska Honey and also teaches classes and coordinates shipments of bees to beekeepers around Alaska.
On Sunday, she was waiting at the Anchorage airport for a shipment of 800 pounds of bees from a distributor in Sacramento, California. It was the first of two shipments that she had ordered on behalf of more than 300 Alaskan beekeepers.
“We had a load that was going to Fairbanks, and then we had somebody else that was going to distribute from Wasilla to Talkeetna,” she said. “And then we were going to do Anchorage and the Valley. And then our second one would’ve come in the following day, and we would’ve taken that one back down to the Peninsula to fulfill the rest of our orders.”
But the plan hit a snag when the bees were pushed from the original Delta flight. Instead, the airline rerouted them to Atlanta, where they were supposed to catch a direct flight to Anchorage.
When they didn’t make that flight, McElrea really started to worry. Honeybees don’t do well in extreme heat. McElrea asked that the bees be put in a cooler.
But the next day, the airline told her some bees had escaped from their crates and so Delta put them outside.
Blueberry French Toast in a Mug - Mmmmmm
Dena Kennedy
This recipe was on “Tasty’s” top list starting 3 years ago - AND it’s still trending on that list. It’s called Blueberry French Toast in a Mug. We LOVE LOVE LOVE this one and so wanted to recommend it to you. CLICK HERE
SOLD: Vintage Recipe Cards Fetch $27k at Sothebys - Why?
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READERS OF SYLVIA PLATH’S DIARIES and letters will find her whipping up homemade mayonnaise, baking Toll House-style chocolate chip cookies, searing steak, and stewing rabbit. Rarely, though, did the famed poet and writer share her recipes. But this week, 33 of Plath’s typed and hand-annotated recipe cards surfaced at a London auction, sold together with her embossed wooden rolling pin. Plath fans pounced, bidding them up to $27,500.
If the well-thumbed cards are any indication, Plath’s staples included delicacies such as chicken fricassee, cherry & cottage-cheese cobbler, and broiled Cape scallops. They also include family favorites, such as “Ted’s mother’s Scots porridge oats biscuits” and her own mother’s apple crisp. In April 1958, she records in her journal that she is rereading Moby Dick and fixing a “huge fish soup” with “chunks of soaked fish & potatoes,” served with “buttery crackers foundering in it.” Is it one and the same as her recipe for “Grammy’s Fish Chowder”?
The Science Behind Honey’s Eternal Shelf Life
Dena Kennedy
Modern archeologists, excavating ancient Egyptian tombs, have often found something unexpected amongst the tombs’ artifacts: pots of honey, thousands of years old, and yet still preserved. Through millennia, the archeologists discover, the food remains unspoiled, an unmistakable testament to the eternal shelf-life of honey.
There are a few other examples of foods that keep–indefinitely–in their raw state: salt, sugar, dried rice are a few. But there’s something about honey; it can remain preserved in a completely edible form, and while you wouldn’t want to chow down on raw rice or straight salt, one could ostensibly dip into a thousand year old jar of honey and enjoy it, without preparation, as if it were a day old. Moreover, honey’s longevity lends it other properties–mainly medicinal–that other resilient foods don’t have. Which raises the question–what exactly makes honey such a special food?
Ukrainian Beekeeper Killed While Tending to Hives
Dena Kennedy
Kyiv, Ukraine - Beekeeper Dmitry Mulyar was tending to his hives outside his home in eastern Kyiv when the Russian shelling hit on Thursday morning. His elder brother Andriy Mulyar, who roasts coffee for a living, was standing next to him when it happened.
"A shell hit, from the -- so-called -- liberators. I was by his side," Andriy, 48, said. "We tried to get him to the hospital, but he died along the way. He left behind three kids." Now, Andriy has to inform Dmitry's children, aged 7, 9 and 15, about their father's death.