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Using Honey to Lessen a Child’s Cough

12-Dec-07

An article in the New York Times reports that a spoonful of honey is more effective than the medicine (Dextromethorphan, or DM) in common over-the-counter medications used by most parents.  The study was conducted by researchers in the Department of Pediatrics and the Department of Public Health Sciences in the College of Medicine at Pennsylvania [...]

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Spring Honey Available Soon

31-May-07

Stonewall Apiary will be harvesting for the first time very soon.  The nectar flow has been excellent so far and the bees are working hard, as usual.  The honey is extremely light and has a floral taste.
Our first harvest typicall sells out quickly.  If you would like to reserve honey now, send us an email [...]

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Cappings - What To Do With Them?

17-Sep-06

What do you do with your cappings?  After extracting all my supers I’m left with several gallons of cappings and honey.  Normally, I feed the honey to the bees in the container I collect it in, but this invariably leads to many thousands of dead bees who either gorge themselves to death, drown themselves in [...]

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