GloryBee Blog

Aunt Patty’s Conversion Chart

Cutting down refined sugar in your diet? Great! You’ve taken the first step to living a longer healthy life! But do you know how much agave nectar replaces a cup...

GloryBee Wins Healthiest Employers Award

On Friday, October 11, GloryBee was honored with a Portland Business Journal’s Healthiest Employers of Oregon award for 2013. Each year the Business Journal honors companies for their efforts to...

Alan’s Bee Chronicles-Checking Up on the Bees

I decided to check on the bees after I completed the third API VAR treatment two weeks ago and feeding the bees a vinegar sugar syrup. I was curious about...

Quartz: Scientists discover what’s killing the bees and it’s worse than you thought

Todd Woody at Quartz.com has a great article on the causes of CCD. This is near mandatory reading for beekeepers or anybody concerned with our disappearing pollinators. [T]he mysterious mass...

GloryBee Donates to OSU Bee Lab

GloryBee Honey and Aunt Patty’s brands donate 1% of annual retail sales revenue to "Save the Bee" programs and “Healthy living” initiatives. Bees not only provide us with delicious honey...

Alan’s Bee Chronicles – Looking forward to harvest season!

Just a quick update on my hives. Nearly every hive is doing well and we’re seeing some great honey production. I’m really looking forward to harvest season and I will...

GloryBee ♥’s Market of Choice

GloryBee was recently recognized by the Market of Choice blog for our Save the Bee Efforts. The article talks a bit about the history of GloryBee and how Market of...

Save the Bee, Because They Pollinate Most of What We Ate This Week!

What did you eat this week? Here’s a short list of the meals we had that just wouldn’t have been the same without bees to pollinate the crop: Coffee with steamed Almond...

Alan’s Bee Chronicles – Catching a swarm

I recently caught a swarm for my friend Wally. A local neighbor boy Dillon who is a friend of our son's John and Eli joined us in the rescue. Dillon...

Video: New Seasons HoneyBees at Work

As part of the "In it For Good" campaign, New Seasons Market, GloryBee and Bee Local have partnered to create two hives on the roof of the New Seasons Happy...

GloryBee Celebrates Earth Week by Cleaning Garden at River Road Elementary

In celebration of Earth Week, over 26 GloryBee employees took time out of their day to volunteer with the School Garden Project of Lane County. The employees helped clean up...

GloryBee Provides Homes for New Seasons Newest Workers

Things are abuzz at New Seasons Market. Today, the activity was on the rooftop as the Portland-based grocer introduced colonies of honeybees to hives placed on the roof of its...

Listen to GloryBee’s Alan Turanski on The Wake Up Call

Our Vice President Alan Turanski was recently interviewed by The Wake Up Call Morning Show hosted by Rob Holloway and Bill Lundun. They discussed how you can get started beekeeping,...

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