There is only life on earth as long as there are bees. Take care of them!
Indeed bees already have a World Day.
HoneyLoveDay is celebrated since August, 17, 2019 as the National Honey Bee Day to honor the insect responsible for more than 1/3 of the food we eat from beekeepers, beekeeping clubs and associations, and honey bee enthusiasts from all across the country. Taking this opportunity to celebrate honey bees and recognize their contribution to our everyday lives as a means of protecting this critical species for future generations.
Who has not met the saying … “Sweet as Honey”… but manybe not too many known that the sweet taste of honey is determined by the non-crystallizing fructose, and its flavor determined by the proportions of essential oils given by the nectars of the various flowers that the bees have collected.
Food for Bees and Food for Humans. It is a product of the nectar of flowers, plant juices transformed by bees. Man has collected honey since ancient times and used it first as a delicacy, later as an important food, and finally as a medicinal product.
It is known by many the consumption and the health effects of honey. Nowonder … honey is rich in vitamins and minerals and is an effective remedy when used both externally and internally. It helps with calcium absorption, increases hemoglobin, treats dietary anemia, in combination with apple cider vinegar has a beneficial effect on inflamed joints, cures all types of infections and respiratory diseases, speeds up the healing of stomach ulcers, and also helps in the healing of allergies. Heart disease (heart failure), gastritis, bronchitis, endocrine disorders (insufficiency), mucositis and immune weakness. The list would be long one, so just to mention a few more “miracals” honey provides instant energy without the harmful effects of sugar, a useful aid in case of insomnia, hay fever, insect bites and infected wounds … no cemicals … a real doctors recept!
In Hungary there are roughly 20,000 beekeepers and about 1.2 million bee families take care of honey production, which means 15-30 thousand tons of honey/year, depending on the weather. Domestic honey consumption averages 90 dkg per capita, while people in Germany consume 1.3 kg and in Greece 1.5 kg. Honey is a storehouse of extremely healthy food, natural antibiotics, vitamins and minerals, so the autumn honey campaign is definitely aimed at increasing domestic honey consumption.
There are several types of honey produced by beekeepers available in Hungary, one of the most popular is the Acacia honey, which is already considered Hungarian, in addition to lime honey and flower honey. Also Beet honey, Chestnut honey, Sunflower honey, Forest honey. Rare but existing Hungarian honeys include: Silkweed, Goldenrod, Wild Tobacco, Facelia, Lavender, Oil Radish, silver fir … Also less known by the public the Bee Bread (mixture of pollen and nectar), Bee venom (A special animal product similar to the Viper poison. It is used with great efficacy in medicine for rheumatism, polyarthritis, neuralgia, iris and retinitis. The exact composition of the poison is yet unknown.)
All the honey producers are truly reliable from the Hungarian beekeepers. It is not an easy mission, their hard-working labor hands and their hearts is included!
Unfortunately, this year’s varied weather … rain, strong winds did not do any good either for pollination, neither for pollen collecting bees either… it is said there will be less out … BUT hope for the Best!
The world bee population is running low, and the lack of useful pollinators would doom strawberries, apples, almonds, tomatoes, peppers, coffee, cocoa, just to name a few Out of our 87 basic crops. Fact is Fact … 3 out of 4 crops depend on pollination. A single bee visits an average of 7,000 flowers a day, and in order for a colony (or man) to receive 1 kg of nutritious honey, one must collect pollen from 4 million flowers. Every year, 1.6 million tonnes of honey are produced only by Western honeybees and 20,000 species of wild bees are known worldwide.
The National Honey Bee Day program started with a simple concept. Bring together beekeepers, bee associations, as well as other interested groups to connect with the communities to advance beekeeping.
All the honey producers are truly reliable from the Hungarian beekeepers. It is not an easy mission, their hard-working labor hands and their hearts is included!
Unfortunately, this year’s varied weather intervened by dense stormy rain, strong winds which did not do any good either for pollination, neither for pollen collecting bees … it is said there will be less honey this year, but honey lovers hope for the Best!
Update Aggie Reiter
Rolling in Budapest 