backyardbees.net

Here at Backyard Bee’s, we hand process our honey comb from uncapping to bottling. All our honey is gravity strained and unheated, which preserves the honey’s natural aroma, nutritional value, and fine taste. Worker bees carry sweet nectar in their honey stomachs back to the hive to be put in the comb. During this time, enzymes in the bee’s stomach are transforming nectar into honey.

The high osmolarity of honey kills bacteria and fungi by drawing water from their cells, ultimately dehydrating them Honey is acidic, with a pH of about 4, which inhibits the growth of most bacteria Honey has the necessary components to produce minuscule amounts of hydrogen peroxide over a long period of time. This slow release makes honey an ideal substance to help in the treatment of small wounds and bacteria caused disorders

* Honey is composed primarily of two sugars, fructose and glucose, and also includes small amounts of many vitamins and minerals * Honey contains a variety of antioxidants in the form of flavonoids and phenolic acids that scavenge and eliminate free radicals *Eating honey increase the absorption of calcium, making your favorite milk and fruit smoothie very nutritious * The color and flavor of honey differs depending on what blossoms the bees collected the nectar from. The bees can collect nectar up to three miles from their hive location.

Backyard Bees offers an alternative to honeybee extermination. We remove bees from your home, property or business without the use of pesticides