We are so consumed with eating healthy that sometimes we forget what and where we should by these particular foods at.
One of the best places is your local farmers market.
This market has vendors who grow products in the area that you live so you know not only are they fresh but usually more care has gone into producing them.
Beekeeper honey is one of these products.
The societies of animals that exist in nature have known about honey from the beginning of time.
Unfortunately, man took a great deal longer to figure this out.
Once man discovered the sweetness found in honey, he began to care for bees in order to obtain his own honey.
As time progressed, man has learned more about bees and how to safely care for the bees as well as to harvest raw honey.
Honey can be used in many different applications; it can be used in cooking such as part of a barbeque sauce, could be used in baking such as being added to corn bread as a sweetener or even in a cup of tea.
The honey that you will find on your local grocer's shelf may be local but more often it has been shipped in.
These bottles and jars of honey are usually provided by larger companies who put the honey through various processes before it even gets put into the container that you take the honey from.
If you were to buy honey that is harvested locally, you are not only benefiting yourself but the community that you live in.
Beekeeper honey is fresh, raw and has a greater health value to you than those commercially made.
Commercially made honey loses its nutritional value and health benefits when it's processed.
Why then would you purchase honey shipped in rather than a local product? Buying locally is so important today.
Not only do you know where the local company is based, but you can easily track their reputation and how they run their business compared to much larger companies.
In addition, you are benefiting your local economy and the natural environment in which the bees live.
The pollination process that bees do for us helps provide that we eat.
Raw honey is definitely a better honey.
It not only does it keep its natural health benefits that one can receive from eating it but it simply tastes better.
Also, since the raw honey doesn't go through the manufacturing processes that other honey go through, the honey will stay clearer longer.
Beekeeper honey contains natural enzymes, amino acids, pollen, vitamins and minerals and the only process it goes through is a straining process.
This process is to remove any honeycomb that may have gotten through.
Sometimes, the honey is sold with large pieces of honeycomb inside the container as this was how it was originally sold.
The thought that you are eating pollen may sound odd but it is actually beneficial to your immune system.