Tennessee Raw Honey Farm

10/26/2025

🐝 This is an incredible shot!
Take a close look at this photo — what do you see?
Can you identify the different parts of the honey bee?
Let’s check out some amazing parts if the Honey Bee up close:

🐝Mandibles – Check out those pincers! These strong jaws are used for gripping, cutting, and shaping wax and pollen. They’re essential tools for building and maintaining the hive and preparing food.

🐝Antennae – Bees have two long antennae packed with tiny sensors that detect smells, tastes, and vibrations. These help them navigate, communicate, and find flowers full of nectar.

🐝Ocelli – Look closely at the top of the bee’s head and you’ll spot three small eyes! These “simple eyes” sense light and help bees stay oriented while flying.

🐝Compound Eyes – The large eyes on each side of the bee’s head are made up of thousands of tiny lenses. Together, they create a mosaic-like vision that helps bees detect movement, color, and danger all around them.

🐝Fine Hairs – The bee’s body is covered in delicate hairs (called setae) that collect pollen, sense temperature and air movement, and even help regulate body heat.

By noticing these details, we can truly appreciate how perfectly designed honey bees are for their incredible work in the hive and the world around us. 🐝

📸 Photo credit: William Cobb

09/23/2025

A drop of nectar—the true fuel for a bee's flight. 💧✨"

Nectar isn't just sweet nectar—it's the vital lifeblood between flowers and pollinators.
👉 It contains water and sugars (sucrose, glucose, fructose), along with amino acids and minerals that create flavor and aroma.
👉 This nectar gives bees energy—the true fuel for flight, keeping the hive warm, and the entire colony alive.
👉 Different flowers' nectars offer different colors and flavors—this is what creates the variety in honey.
👉 The amount of nectar varies depending on the season and flower, and this determines which flower the bees are most attracted to.
👉 Every drop of nectar is a guarantee of future seeds and our biodiversity.

🌱 If we want to save pollinators and their nectar, we must:
✔ Plant native flowers,
✔ Use less pesticides,
✔ And provide small water sources.

💛 Because the truth is: “In their legs, they carry the life of the planet.”

09/16/2025

Did you know? 🍯 Honey is not just sweetness—it’s nature’s medicine!

Raw honey straight from the comb is a true gift for our health.
👉 Boosts immunity
👉 Heals wounds naturally
👉 Provides instant energy
👉 Soothes cough & sore throat
👉 Improves digestion

And the most amazing fact – honey never expires! 🐝
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Nature gave us honey—it’s our duty to protect the bees."

09/10/2025

🌼✨ When nature crafted perfection in the tiniest form… it was the body of a honeybee. 🐝💛
Small in size, yet mighty in purpose — the honeybee’s body is a true masterpiece of nature.
Every part is designed with precision:

👉 Eyes: 5 eyes that can sense direction, detect flowers, and capture even the smallest detail of light.
👉 Antennae: Not just for smell — they sense vibrations, humidity, and guide the bee home.
👉 Wings: Flapping nearly 200 times per second, carrying her tirelessly from flower to flower.
👉 Hairy Body: Each tiny hair holds pollen, ensuring the cycle of life continues.
👉 Pollen Basket: Little “buckets” on her hind legs where she stores golden pollen treasures.
👉 Stinger: Her last weapon of sacrifice, protecting the colony even at the cost of her life.

Think about it — such a tiny body, yet packed with intelligence, strength, and sacrifice.
A honeybee doesn’t just make honey — she keeps our forests alive, our fruits growing, and our Earth breathing. 🌍🌸

Next time you see a bee buzzing by, pause for a moment. Admire the miracle in motion. 🙏🐝

08/30/2025

Fall pollen has begun !

08/21/2025

They don’t just make honey. They manage water.💧🐝 In the scorching heat of summer, when flowers dry and the hive runs hot, honeybees form a silent line—like pilgrims at a sacred spring. Each bee takes a droplet, then vanishes—carrying it back not to drink, but to cool the hive.
Their wings fan the moisture, regulating internal temperature like living air conditioners. And they do this...together. No queen commands. No drone instructions. Just instinct. Order. Purpose. This is not a water break. This is climate control. In a single trip thousands, one bee cools. Multiply that by a colony. Now tell me again who runs the world?🐝

08/21/2025

Bee bread . Bee bread is the special “stored food” of the hive made from pollen. 🐝Here’s how it works: • Collection: Foragers bring pollen back on their hind legs (in pollen baskets). • Packing: Inside the hive, worker bees pack the pollen into honeycomb cells. • Mixing: They add a little honey and bee saliva (which contains enzymes). • Fermentation: The mixture undergoes a natural lactic acid fermentation (like sauerkraut or yogurt). • Result: The fermented product is called bee bread — it’s more digestible and nutritious than raw pollen.👉 Bee bread is the main protein source for honey bees, especially for nurse bees that feed the larvae and the queen. It contains proteins, amino acids, vitamins, minerals, and beneficial microbes.

08/17/2025

A single teaspoon of honey is a remarkable testament to the tireless efforts of approximately 12 honeybees, whose collective work spans their entire lifetimes.

To produce this small amount, these bees undertake an extraordinary journey, flying a cumulative distance of around 50,000 miles—equivalent to circling the Earth twice.

During this journey, they visit hundreds of flowers, meticulously collecting nectar, a sugary liquid secreted by plants. Each bee sucks up nectar using its long, straw-like tongue and stores it in a specialized stomach, where enzymes begin breaking it down.

Back at the hive, the nectar is passed to other bees, who further process it by chewing and reducing its water content. This transformed nectar is then deposited into honeycomb cells, where it ripens into honey through evaporation, sealed with a wax cap for preservation.

The process is highly collaborative, involving precise teamwork and communication among the bees. This teaspoon of honey, therefore, represents not only their physical labor but also their intricate social structure and efficiency.

It’s a small but profound product of nature, highlighting the bees’ critical role in pollination and ecosystem health, as well as their incredible dedication to sustaining their colony.

08/17/2025

08/17/2025

Bees 🐝 hide a surprising secret.

When a hive loses its queen—the only one capable of giving life to the colony and maintaining order in a perfectly organised society—all seems lost.

Life in the hive slows down.

Without new eggs, the future disappears. Within a few weeks, the colony is threatened with extinction.

But bees don't panic. Nor do they wait for salvation from outside.

With an extraordinary display of collective intelligence and deep instinct, they launch a spectacular emergency response that is hard to imagine in a world ruled by insects.

Transformation begins with a simple but essential choice.

Worker bees select some ordinary larvae—the very ones that would normally become ordinary workers. They are nothing special. They were born no different. But now their fate changes completely.

They are selected to receive a special diet: royal jelly. A rare substance produced by nutritious bees, rich in protein, vitamins, and bioactive compounds.

It's royal food in the purest sense.

The larva fed exclusively on this substance no longer follows the usual path. In just a few days, its body develops differently. The sheep are activated. The body becomes larger, stronger. Life expectancy is multiplied by almost twenty.

It won't work. It will rule. It will not follow routine. It will bring life.

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The queen isn't chosen based on genes. It's created.

What makes this process truly fascinating is that the worker bees choose the Queen.
Once the new queen is ready, she takes over leadership of the hive, begins laying eggs, restores order, and begins a new collective life cycle. From the threat of extinction, the colony is reborn stronger, more organised, and more balanced.



By mosee WA Asali Ya Koriema Baringo

07/30/2025

2025 honey is in jars and ready to sell , get it while you can , it be gone before you know it