Tennessee Raw Honey Farm

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

06/10/2025

Our new local honey sign , will soon be up and flying !

06/10/2025

We stole this pic , but you just got to admit that this is just an amazing. Beautiful picture !

05/26/2025

Enjoying honey straight out of the beehive , 2025

04/20/2025

Swarm #4 good and. Healthy swarms !

04/20/2025

Here at our farm we are catching swarms , this is #5 ! The lord has blessed us …..

02/13/2025

How true this is !