Monday, April 5, 2010

Another reason to "bee" prepared

According to this article, "about one-third of the human diet is from plants that require pollination from honeybees, which means everything from apples to zucchini", so the news given in the same article that bees are not doing well is not good, (an understatement) for many reasons. If fewer food products and less honey are being produced, the more of each category that you have on hand, the better off you will be. You may notice that Idaho's claim to fame in this article is that the beehive owner featured keeps his hives in Idaho Falls for part of the year.....

Speaking of pictures, the one in the heading is from Craters of the Moon, a spot in Idaho where there are remnants of the activity of a once-active volcano. Thanks to T.D., who suggested in an e-mail that I put a picture of scenic Idaho. It took me awhile, but there it is. I actually had planned to put up a picture from a totally different location, but technology wasn't cooperating this morning. This picture was actually taken awhile ago when we went there on a family outing. Now that I know how to add pictures in the heading, there will probably be changes periodically, because Idaho is a truly beautiful place....

2 comments:

Sondra said...

I decided I needed to get more honey in my storage after this post. I use this in my bread recipe and go through it regularly. I could NOT believe how much the price has increase... almost double. I'll have to purchase a little at a time to get my storage back up again. It's tooo expensive to purchase enough at one time. WOW! At winco for 32 oz it was $7.45 when I used to get it for around $4 last year. The 24 oz bear jar was the same price, I opted for the plain bigger jar.. but WOW... That is a scary trend.

Marie said...

Sondra--Wow, that is scary--I need to increase my honey storage as well, but haven't been concentrating on it lately. I do know that the last time I got some the prices were shocking to me, but I don't think that they had gotten that high at that point. Thanks for the price info from Winco--if it's that high even there, (where we like to shop because it's generally cheaper) I better concentrate on it more. Thanks for your comment!