Have you ever wondered just how many different types of bees there are? As beekeepers, we get asked this question frequently.  According to Florida’s Nature, there are over 4,000 species of bees in the U.S. and almost 20,000 species of bees worldwide.  Florida has 315 native bee species (29 of those species are only found in Florida) with 5 non-native bee species.  Unlike non-native honey bees, Florida’s bees are amazingly diverse with six primary families — Andrenidae, Apidae, Colletidae, Halictidae, Megachilidae, and Melittidae. Even within those ..read more

Recently, our readers have been asking about the effects honey has on sleep: Can honey help you stay sleep? Does honey help you fall sleep? Will honey help you sleep better? With a variety of pharmaceutical options on the market to turn to for insomnia, trouble falling or staying asleep, is there a more natural alternative?  Some of the pharmaceutical options come with unwanted and dangerous side effects our readers want to avoid.  So what’s the buzz on honey and sleep…. The first note to make is the common thread found throughout the many articles and research papers we looked thr ..read more

Before you try to kill the next bee that comes near you, please, we are begging you...stop. Bees by nature are not looking to be aggressive towards humans, and honey bees, especially, are incredibly necessary and valuable to our planet in so many ways. Bees do more than just produce delicious honey, which we know something about here at Florida Honey Pot Farms. Today, we are going to share with you a myriad of reasons why bees matter and need to be protected at all costs. PASSIONATE POLLINATORS Many crops that are grown worldwide for human consumption are highly dependent on bees to help ..read more

  Raw Honey vs. Regular Honey Let’s look at the source, color, processing and filtration to compare the two. Raw Honey Fact #1 Raw Honey comes directly from the honeycomb and usually a local beekeeper harvests the honey. Raw honey does not contain any ingredients other than the honey from the beehive. While there is no official U.S. federal definition of raw honey, the National Honey Board defines raw honey as “honey as it exists in the beehive or as obtained by extraction, settling or straining without adding heat.” This definition does not have any legal authority but is provided to hel ..read more

You may have grown up eating peanut butter and honey sandwiches in your school lunch, and to no one’s surprise, your mom really knew what she was doing. Honey is thick, sweet, and tasty, but it’s also full of rich minerals like iron, calcium, and magnesium. As nature’s natural sweetener, it’s hard to go wrong when incorporating honey into your diet. In this blog, we’ll review some of honey’s top health benefits and how you can make the most of it.   What Are the Top 5 Benefits of Honey? Honey serves as a natural energy booster You probably associate a sugar rush with an eventual cras ..read more

When you think of the honey you buy at the grocery store, you probably feel pretty confident in the answer to the question, “Is honey a liquid?” Of course! What else would it be?  But the answer isn’t so simple. You may recognize liquid honey most often because of how you’re used to seeing it packaged. However, crystallized honey is a solid form of the same product. In this blog, we’ll discuss not only how honey comes to be (no pun intended!) but also how it crystallizes over time.  How Do Bees Make Honey? Let’s start at the beginning. How is honey — liquid or solid — made? Honey is ..read more

Cannabis honey is certainly gaining popularity – but that’s not entirely surprising given the  history honey has with health enthusiasts and nature lovers combined with the growing  popularity of cannabis and the rising awareness of the threat to the bee population.   Before we look at for different brands of honey that infuse cannabis into their products, let’s define how we are going to use “cannabis”. Cannabis is most often viewed as marijuana, however hemp falls into the cannabis category as well. Legally, hemp is  defined as a cannabis plant that contains 0.3 perc ..read more

A honey flight is a variety of honey samples grouped together.  The term “flight” is perfect considering the honey bee visits 50 to 100 flowers during a collection trip, can fly as fast as 15 miles per hour, and the familiar buzzing sound is actually their wings beating together – at 11,400 times per minute! Here we will look at several factors to consider when selecting a honey flight: The kind of honey - what kinds of flowers did the bees use to make the honey Infusions to explore – healthy options to infuse into honey CBD Honey Different kinds of honey If you are selecting a flight b ..read more

Honey has been purchased, sold, traded, eaten, drizzled and probably even stolen for thousands of years now. Honey is sought after for a variety of reasons, however there are a few things to specifically consider when looking to buy honey online: What/Who are you buying honey for? You might be looking to purchase a larger quantity of honey to use for baking, or a small artisanal batch honey for a sophisticated gift.  While one consumer may seek out local honey for allergy relief, another might be looking for a wound remedy. Your honey shopping purpose will help direct you on where to ..read more

Did you know there are more than 300 different types of honey in the United States? Of those, about a dozen of them are found in the Sunshine State and we will focus on the five most popular. Utilizing our fertile, warm and sunny climate, Florida bee’s proudly produce these types of honey: Tupelo Orange Blossom Wildflower Saw Palmetto Gallberry Tupelo Honey You might have Van Morrison’s song, “Tupelo Honey” running through your head right now and that’s OK!  Tupelo honey is very special and can only be found in certain areas of Southeastern Georgia and the Florida Panhandle.  The O ..read more