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Our favorite articles about cooking with honey and harvesting and storing honey posted on TexasHomesteader.com

Beekeeping – Adding A Honey Super Box to the Beehive

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Honeybees will fill a honey super box with honey. But how do you prepare the hives in advance of adding a honey super box or know when it’s time to place it on your beehives? Read on, dear friends.

Today I’m showing what we do to prepare to harvest that all-natural sweet honey we love!

It's time to add a honey super box to our beehives. The bees will fill it with the sweet honey we crave! #TexasHomesteader

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Healthy Hydration: Honey/Ginger Haymaker’s Punch

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Recently a smart friend shared her recipe for making what she called ‘Haymaker Punch’. She uses this healthy drink as her own homemade Gatorade during the summer. ‘

Her recipe used 4 simple ingredients: apple cider vinegar, filtered water, grated ginger and honey. 

I’m a big fan of carbonated ginger drinks so I couldn’t wait to try it out!

Old-timers called it 'Haymaker's Punch' - a healthy honey/ginger drink to rehydrate the workers in the fields in brutal summer temps #TexasHomesteader

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