Spring Valley Honey

04/20/2024

Wow! How great is this?!!!

07/20/2022

Looks like a fine day to be out pulling honey supers ☀️ 🥵 🐝 🍯

07/14/2022

Perfect week to melt wax cappings

06/02/2022

Sometimes the smoke can also calm the beekeeper 🐝 🍯 🧘‍♂️

05/29/2022

That’s right, I’m a beekeeper. You got a problem with that? 🐝 🤣

05/07/2022

Beautiful designs and a good cause

Local beekeeper invites local artists to design beehive boxes to raise awareness of pollinators and raises funds for community organizations.

05/06/2022

I am exhausted after spending the entire day with Ray Johnson checking my hives. But..... We found a hive with about 10 capped queen swarm cells maybe Mazzitelli will share a picture of those queen cells. We saw a virgin queen that had already emerged. We opened some of the other cells and new queens emerged! We captured some of them and put them in hives needing queens That was so cool, we were just at the right place at the right time! This is a frame with black foundation and new white wax comb and just laid eggs. It was a good day!

04/28/2022

Here are some interesting facts about the dandelion flower:

The dandelion is the only flower that represents the 3 celestial bodies of the sun, moon and stars. ☀️ 🌙 ⭐️. The yellow flower resembles the sun, the puff ball resembles the moon and the dispersing seeds resemble the stars.

The dandelion flower opens to greet the morning and closes in the evening to go to sleep. 😴

Every part of the dandelion is useful: root, leaves, flower. It can be used for food, medicine and dye for coloring.

Up until the 1800s people would pull grass out of their lawns to make room for dandelions and other useful “weeds” like chickweed, malva, and chamomile.

The name dandelion is taken from the French word “dent de lion” meaning lion’s tooth, referring to the coarsely-toothed leaves. 🦁

Dandelions have one of the longest flowering seasons of any plant.

Dandelion seeds are often transported away by a gust of wind and they travel like tiny parachutes. Seeds are often carried as many as 5 miles from their origin!

Animals such as birds, insects and butterflies consume nectar or seed of dandelion.🐦 🐛 🐜 🦋 🐝.

Dandelion flowers do not need to be pollinated to form seed.

Dandelion can be used in the production of wine and root beer. Root of dandelion can be used as a substitute for coffee. 🍷 🍺

Dandelions have sunk their roots deep into history. They were well known to ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans, and have been used in Chinese traditional medicine for over a thousand years.

Dandelion is used in folk medicine to treat infections and liver disorders. Tea made of dandelion act as diuretic.

If you mow dandelions, they’ll grow shorter stalks to spite you.

Dandelions are, quite possibly, the most successful plants that exist, masters of survival worldwide. 💪

A not so fun fact: Every year countries spend millions on lawn pesticides to have uniform lawns of non-native grasses, and we use 30% of the country’s water supply to keep them green.

Bee Happy Gardens 🐝