Kemp Honey

From our family to yours, we hope you have a great holiday season and all the best in the New Year!!

We have some exciting new products to share with you all! Fizzy Bath Salts! We have collaborated with one of the younger members of our family this holiday season to share a new product. Annalee has been working so hard to develop her own line of Fizzy Bath Salts with us ... The bath salts come in a number of different scents such as; Tropical , Cucumber , Beach Vibes , Sunshine , Sugar Plum Fairy and Cotton Candy A perfect addition into your self-care routine We will have these available for purchase Soul Peace Collective in High Prairie as well as Beaucoup Collective in Girouxville. For more information on these bath salts please check out our website

The holidays are just around the corner which brings all the holiday flavours If you love Chai, you’ll love this smoothie recipe! Naturally sweetened and perfect for the holiday season Enjoy!!

Did you know we are members of the Beemaid co-op? While we distribute a small portion of our honey crop ourselves, majority of our honey is sent in drums to Beemaid to be sold at a number of different retailers. This means that when you purchase Beemaid honey from your local Costco, No Frills, or Real Canadian Superstore, a small portion of our honey crop might just be in there! ... We have also just learned that Beemaid is an occasional honey supplier for Hello Fresh and Tim Hortons! We love the idea of our honey being incorporated into so many people’s lives in a number of ways

Struggling to find gifts for your loved ones this holiday season? We have you covered! Stop in at the farm and browse our selection of products or message us and we can make something work ... Tis the season!

Who doesn’t love banana bread? We love incorporating honey into baked goods as it enhances the sweetness and gives it a more moist texture Enjoy!

The role of the queen bee in the hive There are approximately 50 000 - 60 000 workers in a colony and usually only 1 queen. The queen bee controls everything that happens in the hive through the production of pheromones which are chemicals that control and determine the worker bees behaviour and biology. This also helps to implement unity among the hive. ... The queen is in charge of laying all the eggs in a hive and she lays anywhere from 175 000 - 200 000 eggs each year. Each time she lays an egg she decides whether she will lay it in a worker or drone cell. The decision is important as it determines the future of the hive. If the queen does a poor job of laying the eggs or if a ‘better’ queen emerges the workers may decide to kill the queen using a method called ‘balling’. This method involves the worker bees clustering around the queen and raising her internal temperature to a point so high she ultimately dies. Despite the queen playing the most important role in the hive, the overall survival of the hive is even more crucial.

What happens to bees in the winter? Some beekeepers may decide to transport their hives to warmer regions, however we prefer to keep our bees right at home Every year we have a lengthy ‘wrap-up’ process that consists of;... Inspecting the hives for parasites or diseases Ensuring each hive has a healthy and productive queen Providing the hives with enough food reserves for the winter Wrapping the hives in felt side wraps, with a pillow or insulated top bag, and finally tying a piece of plywood on top to the pallet on the bottom to hold everything in place. Although our bees may not be preoccupied with making honey, they manage to keep busy by consuming their food stores of accumulated honey and syrup in the hive. In attempts to stay warm, the bees will cluster together to conserve energy and even manage to maintain an average hive temperature 27 C. There are many different methods of ‘winterizing’ bees and it is up to the beekeeper to determine a process that works best for them and their bees

Look at that brood Things are slowing down around here. By this time of the year, our bees are all tucked in for the winter, while we prepare our equipment and get ready for next year! We’ve still got lots of honey and all of our great body products available for purchase!

Ever wonder what the inside of a white beehive box looks like? Our hives are almost all wrapped up for the winter! We wrap them in side wraps (black roll in the back of the photo), cover them in an insulated bag or box and secure it all with string and plywood, keeping the bees toasty warm all winter!

Happy Thanksgiving! From our table to yours Happy Thanksgiving! From our table to yours

Did you know you can find our honey in High Prairie at Marigolds, and in Slave Lake at the Lesser Slave Lake Bird Observatory? Did you know you can find our honey in High Prairie at Marigolds, and in Slave Lake at the Lesser Slave Lake Bird Observatory?

Hey everyone! We now have an instagram page you can follow us on to stay up to date on our products and more! Check it out! ... https://www.instagram.com/kemp_honeyhp/

¿Por qué las abejas mueren cuando te pican? Esto se debe a que después de introducir su aguijón, este queda atrapado debido a la contracción involuntaria de la ...piel y por la forma aserrada del aguijón. La abeja al tratar de desprenderse, pero termina por perder parte de su tracto digestivo. Este desgarro es lo que provoca su muerte minutos después. Las abejas obreras, las que trabajan en las colmenas son las que solamente pican, y lo hacen cuando se ven amenazadas. The Sacramento Bee publicó la siguiente foto, donde se aprecia el momento anteriormente mencionado.

These flavoured honey stick gift sets are not yet available in our honey house (soon!!) but you can find them right now at Soul Peace Collective in High Prairie!!

We are officially SOLD OUT of 35lb pails! We are also running low on 15lb pails so if you are thinking of getting one of those now is the time!! We do have lots of 6.5lb and 1kg pails left.

Have you ever been in our honey house? This is what it looks like in the winter months. In the summer the shop is the same but you can often find our crew extracting honey behind the mesh screen! You can even watch!

Happy New Years to everyone from all of us at Kemp Honey!!!