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How to Render Beeswax

– Cover your counters and floors around where you will be working to ensure a quick and easy clean up in case of any wax spill.

– Create a double boiler by filling a pot with water and nestling a second pot inside the first. heat the water to a calm boil.

– Empty your ‘dirty’ honeycomb from your honey harvest into the
second pot and allow it to melt completely, keeping an eye that the wax
itself does not begin to boil.

– When the wax is completely melted, remove it from the heat and pour
it through a cheesecloth into a cardboard milk carton that you have cut
the top off of.

– Allow the wax to harden, then rip the carton away from the wax.

– Honey will have settled around the wax. save some for your tea and rinse the rest off with cool water in the sink.

– Your wax is now clean and ready to be used however you desire! time to make some balms or candles!

Honey in European Languages

Albanian        – mjaltë
Basque          – eztia
Belarusian     – мёд
Bosnian         – med
Bulgarian       – мед
Catalan          – mel
Croatian        – med
Czech            – med
Danish          – honning
Dutch            – honing
Estonian        – mesi
Finnish          – hunaja
French           – miel
Galician         – mel
German         – Honig
Greek            – μέλι
Hungarian     – méz
Icelandi         – chunang
Irish              – mil
Italian           – miele
Latvian         – medus
Lithuanian    – medus
Macedonian  – мед
Maltese         – għasel
Norwegian    – honning
Polish           – miód
Portuguese  – mel
Romanian    – miere
Russian       – мед
Serbian       – мед

Slovak        – med
Slovenian    – medu
Spanish      –  miel
Swedish      – honung
Ukrainian    – мед
Welsh         – mêl

This thick golden fluid has its differentiations not only when it
comes to colour, taste and herbal origin, but  even the very name of it
has numerous variations, not all of them belonging to the same language
family.

Linguists who study the Indo-European theory  estimate that the
Proto-Indoeropean word for honey was  melit, which gave the Sanskrit
word madhu, the Greek μέλις, the Latin mel and eventually words like μέλι(ττ)σσα or mellifluous. Hence the names mel, miel, miele, med, and all their variations.

So, what happened to the Northeners? It seems that the northern
branches of the IE language tree ( ie. the Germanic branch, unlike the
Slavs who remained loyal) followed a different path right from the
beginning. They’d name honey after the colour of it, using the PIE word
for “golden y ellow”, which is k(e)neko. That eventually evovled to the ancient Germanic huna(n)go,

which became honung in Old Norse, and then hunig in Old English. Between
Old English and now, the letter “g” following an “i” or an “e” sound
has tended to drop away or turn into a “y,” meaning that the Medieval hunig became our modern-day “honey.”

*Portuguese also includes Brazilian Portuguese , Spanish
Cental- South american spanish and french all non-frenh countries where
it’s the official language.

Sources:  x , x

So this dude trained his bee’s to take
pollen from the cola’s of marijuana plants instead of flowers.. And in
return the honey they produce is infused with THC and the product is
essentially purified as it goes travels through the bee’s system (As
normal bee enzymes make nectar into honey).. The product is a dank
edible honey that will medicate the shit out of you. This guy wins all
around.

Nicolas Trainerbees, the Beekeeper That Has Managed to Get His Bees to Make Honey with Cannabis Resin

Many are calling him a genius. The man is an artisan, locksmith and
above all else, he explains, he is a beekeeper. He has over 4300
Facebook followers and 700 on Instagram after the 39-year-old Frenchman,
who describes himself as an advocate of medical cannabis and of
complete cannabis legalization, trained bees to make honey from cannabis.

He goes by the nickname of Nicolas Trainerbees, for obvious reasons.
For 20 years, he has worked with bees in a way where he claims he is
able to “train” them to make honey from virtually anything.

“I have trained bees to do several things, such as collect sugar from fruits, instead of using flowers,” he explains.

Nicholas says he has “been passionate about nature since childhood,”
which led him to this profession that mixes his love for plant life with
his love for animals – especially insects.

Nicholas calls the cannabis-honey produced by the bees “cannahoney”
from “a training technique whereby the bees collect the resin and use it
in the beehive.”

The final substance, he explains, is the sole work of the bees. “For
some time I had known about the health benefits of bee products such as
honey, propolis, pollen, wax and royal jelly and also about the benefits
of cannabis,” and so he decided to take notice of the requests, he
explains.

Add to that the fact that “everything that passes through the body of
a bee is improved,” he said, since their enzymes make the nectar turn
into honey.

“So if the bee took the resin from cannabis it would also be very
beneficial.”“The aim arose for me to get the bees to obtain this resin,”
he added. The “cannahoney” has “quite a floral” aroma and a color, he
explains. It “is not smoked, it is ingested and it is good for health,”
he adds. Nicolas says that “the bees accept any strain.”

So do the bees get high off of the cannabis they make the honey from?

“The bees that produce the cannahoney are not affected by
cannabinoids because they do not have an endocannabinoid system,” he
says. It’s just another form of food for them.

Courtesy of TheAntiMedia

Royal jelly is a honey bee secretion that is used a nutrition for
larvae and queen bees. When worker bees decide to make a new queen
because the old one is either dying or dead, they choose several larvae
and feed them royal jelly in specially constructed queen cells. This
triggers the larvae to develop with queen morphology, including fully
developed ovaries needed to lay eggs.

The Kattunayakan are tribal people who live deep in the forests of the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve in South India. They collect and sell wild honey. Kattunayakan honey harvesters can tell from the ground whether a hive 60-80ft up in the air has honey or not and whether it is worth the effort to climb there. Children as young as eight go along not just as spectators but to actively participate. By the time they are 12 they are full members of the team. Photo credit: Tarsh and Tariq Thekaekara.