There are really only two answers to the question how we can help save the bees; What we can do personally, as individuals, and what we can do collectively around the world.
There is some cross-over between the two answers, but it's understandable to feel that some of the bigger challenges are out of our hands. Thankfully there are others that do brilliant work on our behalf...
While we would be a little reluctant to use the word 'cure', the long history of honey being used to treat coughs and sore throats potentially dates back thousands of years. Many of us will remember our parents, grandparents and even great grandparents giving us honey and lemon drinks as children to sooth our sore throats and coughs. This knowledge and personal experience of using honey as a treatment seems to have been passed down from generation to generation...
Spring is finally here and so is the promise of some better weather here in the UK. That means it's time to plant those little packets of bee saving flower seeds we've been saving up over the autumn and winter!
I decided to use an old neglected barbecue garden (or Bee-B-Q as I've decided to called it!) as a starting point for my little bee-friendly garden. It's quite tatty and a little rusty but I don't think the bees will mind...
Can honey cure hay-fever? It's a topic that many experts, nutritionists and health professionals seem to disagree on. It's been a subject covered a lot in the media seemingly on a yearly basis, with discussions on high profile daytime television shows like ITV's 'This Morning'. Many YouTube videos have been made, some making dubious claims for financial gain and others based on the genuine positive experiences of ordinary people. So, what is the truth? Does honey help to cure hay fever?...
Bees are one of the most important species on the planet and if all the bees died the world would be a very different place. They are critical pollinators for many of the crop products we use daily.
A world without bees would be a place where supermarkets would struggle to fill the fruit and vegetable aisles and the products that we could find would likely only be available at a very high price. Items that are common and inexpensive now, would become luxury items...
Honey has been part of our everyday healthcare package for centuries and is widely know to have many health benefits. But does modern science really support this view?
In today's blog, we ask the expert: Dean Ashton, a qualified Nutritionist and Exercise expert and owner of Urban Reform, a personal training business in Manchester. We asked Dean, what are the benefits of honey and is there scientific evidence to support it? Here is what he had to say...
In this blog, we'll explore the possible reasons why bees are dying and for the continuing decline in bee numbers, both in Britain and around the world. Nobody is certain if there is one underlying cause and it may be that there are different causes in different places. However, it seems most likely to us to be a number of contributing factors that have become deadly to our bee population when combined...
At Just Bee we have friends and relatives that are vegetarian and vegan. We feel that diet is a very personal matter, whether you have made choices based on health considerations, environmental issues, ethical decisions or a combination of all these things.
Because every individual is different, people will often take a different view on the subject of whether honey is vegan or not. There have been well made arguments on both sides and some that frankly don't hold as quite much weight! Armed with the right knowledge you can make up your own mind if you think honey is right for you to eat, and that’s the aim of this blog post...
The Just Bee team would like to thank all of our customers for their support during a difficult year and wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy new year. For many of us it won't be the Christmas we wanted or planned for, but we hope you can make the best of it in difficult circumstances and look forward to better times ahead.
Anyone that buys and uses honey on a regular basis will almost certainly have encountered honey crystallisation before. But why does honey crystallize? Has your honey had gone bad or spoiled? How do I decrystallize honey? In this blog, we investigate...
We should be in no doubt that bees are some of the hardest working and important creatures on the planet. We owe a lot to this amazing, yet still often under-appreciated, animal. Around the world, there are 25,000 different types of bee species! This huge number is divided into over 4,000 different types of bees, which can be further divided into the nine families of bees. The Apidae family is perhaps the most well-known family, that contains at least 5,700 different species of bee, including the honeybee and bumblebee we are all familiar with here in the UK.
Honey bees pollinate around three quarters of all the fruit, vegetables and nuts that we eat. But what bees are far more well known for is their ability to produce honey!
Despite being what they are most associated with, did you know that not all bees actually make honey? Only honeybees specifically produce honey, as honey is their primary source of energy; it’s their main food...
