Revisiting the Wild Honeybee with Torben Schiffer
The Poor Prole’s Almanac
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Is Propolis a Good Antibiotic?
In one kilo of honey is about 700 millilitres of water, which is a side product of digesting honey. Even the humidity that the bees are creating by digesting honey in the wintertime can cause mold to spread on combs. The longer the honey stays in a tree cavity, which is probabilized and has anti-biotic conditions, the more anti-biotics it gets. It's much more sustainable when it comes to beekeeping than if you were just a farmer or an animal breeder. In medieval times they would kill queens for feeding their own resources but now we don't have this problem.
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