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Honey Cares for Your Hair
Honey Do's
If you’re a regular to the Local Hive Blog, you already know that raw and unfiltered honey can treat wounds, soothe bee stings and freshen up your face, but there are so, so many more uses for honey as a natural remedy or ingredient. Just off the top of our head, here’s one: protecting your hair....
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Honey Can Calm a Cough
Honey Do's
When a child has a cough something has to be done or no one’s getting any sleep. Fortunately, raw honey can soothe an irritated throat and suppress the cough reflex, helping kids and adults alike get some shut-eye. There’s plenty of evidence that honey can make an effective antidote for stubborn ... -
Let’s Face It: Honey Makes a Great Face Mask
Honey Do's
Raw honey can do so much more than just sweeten your breakfast. For thousands of years, people have been finding new, ingenious ways to use honey, and it wasn’t long before they realized that honey could protect skin and provide a youthful glow. Dealing with dry skin, acne, breakouts, oily skin a... -
Taking the Sting Out of Bee Stings
Honey Facts
So you’ve been stung by a bee. What do you do now? Treat it if you want to beat it: leaving a bee sting as-is is a surefire way to make it worse. Start by removing the stinger as soon as possible. Scrape it off with your fingernail, credit card or other flat object. But whatever you do, don’t pul... -
Summertime Slime
Honey Do's
Honey is a great helper for sweetening tea and rejuvenating skin, but the sticky stuff has a playful side, too. If you’re running out of summer activity ideas, it might be time to break the first rule of dinnertime and play with your food. Our raw and unfiltered honey is here to help you get crea... -
Turn your Home into a Mini Meadery
Honey Facts
The second-best time for you to start brewing mead is now. The best time is six weeks ago. For those who didn’t grow up during the Middle Ages in a kingdom filled with knights and nobles, mead is a once-popular – and extremely slow-brewed – alcoholic beverage created from fermented honey. This “h... -
The World’s Smallest Chemists
Beekeeping
We know that bees are hard workers, but those long hours involve some help from sweet science. Along with “environmentalist” and “flower enthusiast”, “chemist” is another title on bees’ long list of apiary accolades. While a bee hive may not look like a science lab, every step from flower to comb... -
The Treat That Treats Wounds
Honey Facts
Barbecues, bonfires and biking are just a few of our favorite summer activities. Although we’d love to pretend those long summer days are always perfect, the reality is, accidents are bound to happen. Grillers get burned, campers call for help and bikers lose their balance. Before you reach for t... -
Historical Honey: Ancient Egypt
Honey Facts
Humans have been buds with bees for quite some time now—about 9,000 years, to be exact. The honey we know and love played an extraordinary role in the ancient world. For the Egyptians, it was a treat of all trades, used for sweetening foods, healing wounds, paying taxes and even embalming dead bo... -
4th of July Honey Popsicles
Recipes
It may be heating up out there, but honey can help you cool off. These summery honey popsicles are easy to whip up, pop into the freezer and save for a sunny day. With blended yogurt, peaches, raw honey and just a hint of vanilla, these aren’t your ordinary popsicles. They pack plenty of peachy p... -
This week marks one of the biggest events of the year for us honey geeks: Pollinator Awareness Week. We’re doing everything we can to get the word out about our itty, bitty buzzing buddies around the world. In case you haven’t heard, not only do pollinators magically make our favorite sweet stuff...
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Korean Rice Cakes with Honey
Recipes
Sometimes, a decidedly not-local dish can be the perfect way to show off raw & unfiltered honey’s flavors. You’ll find that to be the case with these Songpyeon: Korean Rice Cakes. They’re a savory trio of dumplings featuring beans, chestnuts and sesame that are just one of the many, many ways... -
Homemade Pumpkin & Honey Face Mask
Honey Do's
Delicious taste is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of honey. The natural nutrients of raw and unfiltered honey have that pure, sweet taste you love. But if you can spare a couple tablespoons of your coveted Local Hive, you’ll discover a new unexpected benefit – great skin. Give ... -
Easy Honey Suckers
Recipes
For a tasty summer treat to satisfy you sweet fix, nothing beats raw and unfiltered honey. Honey makes a delicate, subtle sweetener for just about any dish–sweet, salty or both–but in candy, its rich, nuanced flavors are front and center. These simple and sweet honey suckers are an easy way to ta... -
We’re proud to announce our new partnership with Lazy Dog Restaurants. Together, we’re bringing our distinctly local honey flavors to new menu items at Lazy Dog locations around the US during this spring and early summer. Lazy Dog restaurants can be found in California, Nevada, Colorado, Texas, I...
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Soon, you’ll be looking for ways to sneak this sweet, smoky Honey Barbecue Sauce into your recipes. It works great as a dip or when it coats your chicken wings, pork ribs, BBQ pulled pork and fingers. Not only does it feature our raw & unfiltered honey, it’s simple enough to whip up for any ...