What makes our honey different?

Honeybees will fly up to two miles away from the hive if necessary to collect nectar and pollen. A forager bee will travel in search of these natural delights and when they find a good source, she will fly back to the hive, deposit the nectar or pollen and then tell another bee about her find. This process will happen again now with the two bees and they will both return and tell two more, eventually, this alerts a lot of bees about a food source, 1 then 2, 2 become 4, 4 then 8, 8 then 16 and so on... The forager bees will visit this food source until it is exhausted and then another is found and the process repeats. At the start of the post, I said a bee will fly up to two miles but bear in mind if there are food sources closer, then they may never be up to two miles away.

So why is the two mile radius significant?

Well, where our hives are situated there are no agriculture practices within that two-mile radius, so our bees are not exposed to crops that may have GMO origins or have been commercially sprayed with pesticides or herbicides. The food sources available to our girls are wild and domestic plants and vegetables in neighbour's yards, this means that the nectar collected can only be from these sources, hence pretty much guaranteeing an organic product.