Thread: Beekeeping

I've been hearing a lot of this lately. Thankfully, there's a local place the puts out some amazing honey and they sell it at a local grocery store. They claim it is "raw"? still dunno what that means...

Originally Posted by dinnermint

I've been hearing a lot of this lately. Thankfully, there's a local place the puts out some amazing honey and they sell it at a local grocery store. They claim it is "raw"? still dunno what that means...

Raw means that it hasn't been processed. The most I filter mine was with two metal mesh gravity flow filters. When extracting you get bits of wax and sometimes the bees will put pollen in some cells and that pops out as a big pellet. Pollen grains still easily pass through my filter - just the big chunks get filtered out. If you high pressure filter it isn't raw so raw is good! Thanks for supporting the local guy! Besides eating local honey is thought to help with allergies to the local plants - so even better.

Dang, international honey seems to be a sneaky business.
I just went to the cupboard and ate a spoonfull of raw honey. From my state, of course.

Originally Posted by Cincinnatus

Raw means that it hasn't been processed. The most I filter mine was with two metal mesh gravity flow filters. When extracting you get bits of wax and sometimes the bees will put pollen in some cells and that pops out as a big pellet. Pollen grains still easily pass through my filter - just the big chunks get filtered out. If you high pressure filter it isn't raw so raw is good! Thanks for supporting the local guy! Besides eating local honey is thought to help with allergies to the local plants - so even better.

They probably filter it a little bit, no chunks or anything. It looks pretty flawless. The lid does have some brown stuff stuck to it...

My morning phlegm has reduced drastically since I started eating it....