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This easy, versatile dressing will show off the unique flavors in your Local Hive Honey, no matter where it’s from. Lemon juice and pecorino cheese round out the dressing for a richer, restaurant-style dressing you’ll come back to again and again. If you’ve never had fresh, homemade salad dressin...
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Is Honey Good for Weight Loss?
Honey Facts
Alright, we’re calling it: those last two years were a fluke. THIS is the year we finally start eating healthy and losing weight. Probably. Maybe. We’ll see. If you, like us, are ready to start eating healthier, raw & unfiltered honey can help. Yes, a food that’s mostly sugar can help you los... -
Honey butter might be the only thing in the world better than raw & unfiltered honey. Ever since we had it on a certain burger chain’s honey butter chicken biscuit, we’ve been wanting to put it on everything. This brownie recipe starts with a base of honey butter, which leads to a naturally s...
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Healthier Habits with Honey
Honey Do's
The difference between New Year’s resolutions that stick and the ones that don’t? They become habits. “Duh,” you’re probably thinking, “If you keep doing something, then it’s habit. That’s literally what ‘habit’ means.” While that’s not wrong, there are tricks to establishing new, healthy habits ... -
Friendsgiving is coming up quick, which means we need to lock in our drink menu ASAP. Naturally, we’re serving up plenty of sweet honey-infused cocktails this year. We might know our way around honey, but we pulled in some help to make the most of it in our drinks. Check out these sweet cocktails...
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Over the years, more than any other fan request, we’ve been asked to start making honey flights. After all, there’s no better way to really compare the richness of raw & unfiltered honeys than side by side. Finally, our Local Honey Gift Boxes are here, and you can gift that special someone th...
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Honey Blackberry Cobbler
Recipes
This Honey Blackberry Cobbler recipe makes the perfect way to try our new, limited-edition Oregon Blackberry Honey. Harvested from a single beekeeper in Oregon’s Willamette Valley, this honey is loaded with lotus & blackberry pollen that give it a confectionary sweetness with notes of cooked ... -
Exactly how much do we need bees?
Beekeeping
In the late 2000s, you couldn’t throw a honey dipper without hitting someone proclaiming, “Save the bees!” This was during the height of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), when beekeepers would lose as many as 60% of their hives every winter. Millions and millions of worker bees would inexplicably c... -
Easy Overnight Oats with Honey
Recipes
Overnight oats are a magical morning meal that fills you up with energy, tastes sweet, and, honestly, is just about as easy as making microwave oatmeal. Like the name implies, overnight oats need to be made the night before you eat them; letting them sit in the fridge overnight creates the creamy... -
Lunchbox-Ready Honey Recipes
Honey Do's
Raw & unfiltered honey can work its way into countless recipes, but our favorites are always the easy ones. These three fun, simple recipes make great replacements for sugar-loaded store-bought treats, getting their sugar from all-natural honey. You can give each one that special home-cooked ... -
It seems like we, as a society, might be getting tired of plain old coffee. Pumpkin spice, buttered coffee, salted coffee, fraps, mochas and countless others have been all the rage for years now. But there’s a simpler, sweeter way to mix up your brew that many people overlook: raw & unfiltere...
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How to Talk to Your Friends About Bees
Beekeeping
There are two parts of Pollinator Awareness Week: conservation and conversation. And while we would never stop someone from planting a pollinator garden, supporting local beekeepers, or even becoming a beekeeper, this week is when we all need to be talking the talk about how our tiny striped frie... -
How We’re Saving American Honey
Beekeeping
Yes, it sounds bold, but we have big ambitions for our Harvest Reserve honeys. They’re how we can literally save American honeys by preventing them from going to waste or being blended and filtered into typical mass-produced honeys. Not only are we protecting these unique flavors, we’re also brin... -
Charcuterie Boarding with Honey
Honey Do's
Charcuterie may sound complicated, but simply put, it’s the perfect way to pair and compare a variety of appetizers and hors d’oeuvres. If you’ve only had mustard on sandwiches or parmesan on pasta or honey in tea, these foods can take on a new life as part of a spread. What do you need for a per... -
Why You Need an Herb Garden
Honey Do's
If you’ve already considered a wildflower pollinator garden and are looking for something that’s tasty for you too, an herb garden could do just the trick. There are plenty of herbs that are easy to grow in your own backyard and favored by the bees. What herbs do bees like? Bees tend to look for ... -
Honey Roasted Sweet Potatoes
Recipes
Sweet potatoes are a magical food. They’re eminently cravable but still have plenty of nutritional benefit thanks to their high fiber and vitamin content. To make them even more tempting, try this simple honey-lemon coating featuring our full-bodied, strongly flavored raw & unfiltered Texas v...