The Healing Magic of Honey

The Healing Magic of Honey

The contents of your first aid kit:  Band-Aids, rolled gauze, triple antibiotic, hydrogen peroxide, medical tape, alcohol wipes, honey . . . wait, honey?  Yes, honey.  Especially if you’re a sea turtle.  Wait, a sea turtle?   Every year numerous sea turtles are...
The Friday Bee Chronicles, Vol. 1, number 1

The Friday Bee Chronicles, Vol. 1, number 1

Welcome to The Friday Bee Chronicles, a weekly installment of beekeeping adventures from a different perspective.  This isn’t a how-to column; instead it’s more of a why-I-did column and a thoughtful look at beekeeping that’s about more than the bees.  I hope you...
The Friday Bee Chronicles

The Friday Bee Chronicles

Volume 1, number 5         Welcome to The Friday Bee Chronicles, a weekly installment of beekeeping adventures from a different perspective.  This isn’t a how-to column; instead it’s more of a why-I-did column and a thoughtful look at beekeeping that’s about more than...
True Colors

True Colors

This is the time of year when many of us sit curled up in the corner of the couch with a seed catalog in our lap, turning down corners of pages . . . and pages . . . and pages. If you’re like me, the wish list is long but garden space, not to mention cash, may be in a...
The Bee Chronicles:  A New Home Part 2

The Bee Chronicles: A New Home Part 2

In the last Bee Chronicles installment, March was still going out like a lion instead of a lamb.  Now, a few days into April, it seems spring has finally gotten the upper hand on winter, chasing it away with crocuses and spring peepers and territorial cardinal calls. ...
City Living

City Living

It’s not just sewer rats, pigeons and cockroaches that thrive in cities these days.  According to a recent post in Catch The Buzz at http://home.ezezine.com/1636/1636-2014.02.13.09.55.archive.html, “surprisingly high numbers of plant and animal species persist and...
Summer Highlights

Summer Highlights

With summer coming, we begin to think light and airy instead of warm and comfy.  Salads instead of stews, shorts instead of sweats, Farmer’s Markets instead of the produce aisle.  Clean and fresh.  How about a clean and fresh way to add some summer highlights to your...
Cinderella’s Glass Slipper

Cinderella’s Glass Slipper

Once upon a time, a poor, fair maiden ascended to royalty when she slipped easily into a magical glass slipper.  As the fairy tale goes, she lived happily ever after.  If it were only that simple.  A tincture, a pill, or a lotion that would enhance health and...