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The Bee Journal: Planting the Honey of a Garden

After reading the Honey Handbook I feel so much more informed as I prepare to put in a garden for the bees.
The Honey Handbook focuses on how to produce great flavoured honeys. And nothing helps the bees do that more than right right kind of plants.
I'll never forget lifting the lid off the extractor after our first extraction. The smell was like tomatoes and sweet chilly peppers. Not what I thought honey should smell like. The taste was different too. I wondered what on earth the bees had gotten into.

The Bee Journal: Middlesex, Oxford, Elgin Beekeepers Association Annual Bee Yard Meeting

I remember a couple years back when we held the event in my bee yard that I learned more in 10 minutes with an experienced beekeeper than reading all kinds of books.
You just can beat some good old fashioned hands-on training.
This year we met in Elgin County at Albert Devries' home where he raises Buckfast bees.

The Bee Journal: The long and winding road

Today the Beatle's song is going through my head. The long and winding road. It often leads to unexpected places.
In this case my mind is saying, "back home." In truth I don't know where I'll end up.
Today I join with millions of other Canadians and citizens around the world that have or are experiencing the terror and uncertaintly of unemployment.

Hubble Discovers New Moon Around Pluto | Wired Science | Wired.com

Astronomers have detected a new, fifth moon orbiting the dwarf planet Pluto, in images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope. The irregularly shaped moon is between 6 and 16 miles across. It circles Pluto in a 60,000-mile-diameter orbit, roughly a quarter of the distance at which our moon orbits Earth.

Why New York City Wants Cleanweb?

Mayor Bloomberg and NYC Digital produced the first ever City's First-Ever sustainability hackathon - Reinvent Green - that took place July 30th - July 31st. This was part of the initiative to

5 Ways Etsy Fuels Entrepreneurs

Etsy the online marketplace for handmade goods is not only helping fledgling artists make money and popularizing the

Nominate a Green Business Hero: $150 prize!

We’d like to celebrate the heroes of the new economy. The small and mid-sized businesses that are changing the world, regenerating natural resources, creating sustainable jobs that aren’t just outsourced at the first convenient moment.We spend a lot of time blogging about the what’s, how’s and why’s of green entrepreneurship, and we feel we would