Winter Park Honey participated in the Nation Public Lands Day at Bill Frederick Park on Turkey Lake in Orlando, Florida. There were climbing ropes for the kids and all kinds of wildlife to see and touch! Winter Park Honey was there with an observation bee hive and we were also selling all of our natural […]
Monthly Archives: September 2013
Check out this article about honey sold in local grocery stores: Publix, Target, Walgreen, Aldi . They are suspected of selling honey void of pollen. Why would they do that? Honey void of pollen cannot be traced back to its origin (i.e. there is no way to determine where the honey came from). The process […]
Over here at Winter Park Honey we love to have fun, and for that reason, over the past two summers, Winter Park Honey has sponsored a team in the Fraser valley rec league, and this summer, only our second season, and with very few return players, we took the title of Fraser valley rec league softball […]
Click here to watch our new beekeeping video. This video was made by a current UCF student studying video photography. Alfredo had never been around bees and was a bit anxious at first, but we suited him up and took him into the bee yard and he fearlessly filmed this bee footage. Watch this video […]
Check out this article by ‘Natural Health News & Holistic Healing”, http://www.undergroundhealth.com/asian-honey-banned-in-europe-is-flooding-u-s-grocery-shelves/ . Be careful when you purchase honey from an unknown source. Honey smuggled in from China may contain heavy metals and illegal antibiotics. All of the honey sold by Winter Park Honey is produced in the U.S.
Varietal honey is honey made predominantly from the nectar of a single type of flower. In order to capture and preserve the qualities and flavors unique to these monofloral honeys, beekeepers must consider local plant flowering patterns when planning hive location and the timing of each honey harvest. Unlike supermarket honeys, which are generally blended, […]