honeyIt’s been a banner year for GloryBee’s SAVE the BEE® social initiative all culminating with a $90k donation to Oregon State University Honey Bee Lab on Friday, April 20. SAVE...
New To Beekeeping? Here Are Some Dos And Don’ts To Keep In Mind
Beekeeping is a recreational and environmental hobby that is quickly growing in popularity. In fact, the USDA reports that as of 2014, the number of colonies managed by beekeepers was...
Celebrating Women Beekeepers
In honor of Women’s History month, we are celebrating all the female beekeepers out there doing their part to save the bee! We’re feeling inspired by these stories of noteworthy...
What Do you Know About GMO’s and Honey?
GloryBee offers Non-GMO Project Verified Honey to safeguard honeybees and other pollinators against threats that contribute to declining bee populations. Sourcing is at the forefront of our minds as we...
Why Did My Bees Die? Part 2 Of 2
In our post last week, we discussed the factors and variables that can cause your hive to fail over the winter. In this weeks post we'll round out some other...
Horticultural Hive-Mind: A Gardener’s Guide To Protecting the Bees
When you see a small, striped, stinging creature making its way from flower to flower, you might be inclined to cry out in fear. If you’re allergic or entomophobic, it’s...
The Change We Seek: Save the Bee
B Corps are businesses that are working together to create a better world, using business as a force for good. Becoming a B Corp 2 years ago is helping us...
Buzz Kill: bees are dying and why it matters to you (SCIENCE DAILY)
Interesting roundup from Science Over Everything: As long as they have existed, bees have been an important and integral part of the Earth’s ecosystem; they help flowering plants reproduce and...
Honey Bees are attracted to Agricultural Fungicides
Most people have heard that honey bee populations are struggling--and the affects that neonicotinoid pesticides are having on honey bee health are gradually becoming main-stream knowledge. Interestingly, what is coming...
The one-two punch that could knock out the world’s bees.
We need bees. With 80% of food crops relying on honey bees for pollination, it has been found that one of every three bites of food we eat is pollinated...
Puerto Rico’s hurricane destruction may have doomed the world’s honey bees?
You probably have heard of “killer bees”. In the 1970’s there was even a string of movies dedicated to sensationalizing these aggressive insects. But killer bees are not some made...
Beekeeping Resolutions for The New Year
A new year means a new beginning. It’s a time to evaluate where we are in life and to make goals to get to where we want to be in...
Answering Common Questions About Bee Pollen: Part 1
It's no secret that bees are an indispensable component of our ecosystem. In fact, bees pollinate more than $15 billion a year in crops in the United States. However, many...