Honey has a long, storied history around the house. Beyond its most common and delicious use, it’s also a powerful cut-healing agent, cough preventer, sleep aid and more. But honey’s not the only useful thing to come out of the hive. Enter beeswax: the sturdy, gummy stuff that worker bees use to ...

Prepare your taste buds for the sweetest gift guide you’ll see all season. We’ve compiled our favorite honey-related gifts and ideas so you can easily check off every sweet tooth on your list. For a honey aficionado such as yourself, try a cute, glass honey dispenser. Since honey never expires, i...

For centuries, the best candles around were made of tallow, a form of animal fat. Thankfully, candlemaking has progressed quite a bit since then, creating a number of long-burning options, including one produced by our favorite arthropod: bees. The most common candle wax material, paraffin, is a ...

Around this time of year, it’s hard for anyone to ignore their sweet tooth. Between Halloween and football season, pumpkin spice and week after week of holiday dinners, we all end up craving treats that hit the sweet spot. With its delicate, nuanced flavors, it’s no surprise that raw & unfilt...

Right now, millions of bees are hard at work on farms around the world, pollinating many of our favorite foods. Some say it’s as much as 7 out of 10 crops. Others say it’s one-third of all the food we eat. But the fact is, bees love all the same vegetables people do; they just happen to get to th...

It turns out there are a few beekeepers out there with plenty of buzz of their own. Even between a demanding schedule of acting, playing in a rock band, or even serving as First Lady, many famous folks have found time to support bees in their backyard.Though more and more people are taking up bee...

Planting a wildflower garden is probably the single best way you can support local pollinators in your neck of the woods. There’s no reason to leave pollination up to local bees and their keepers – you can easily help your local ecosystem without leaving your backyard. Don’t worry: you can put do...

Worker bees in our local hives are always looking for new local pollen sources, because it’s the one ingredient they need to make honey. So, when they find a tasty new flower, it’s big news for the whole hive. No single bee can make enough honey for the whole hive – in fact, one bee will only pro...

Monday marks the first day of fall, which means that while the weather might be cooling down, beekeeping season is heating up at our hives around the country. At this very moment, our beekeepers are busy harvesting plenty of honey, and then – critically – doing nothing to it, keeping it raw &...

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....

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...