Local Honey is Better for you!

I had read this before and I remember at the time, that it was so obvious, I wondered why I hadn't thought of it before. Now, if I could just get my wallet to go along with the idea. Local honey is so expenxive compared to the regular brands. I always struggle with the justification of the price difference!

Thanks for posting such useful information! I knew this, somewhere in the back of my mind I remember hearing it before, but I haven't really been acting on it lately. I usually just buy my honey at the store with everything else, becuase it's so much easier than finding a local supplier. Now I feel inspired, and I'm gonna go out and find a local supplier. With all my allergies and asthma problems, I need all the help I can get.

Well I don't eat a lot of Honey but I have to admit that I did not know that either, The only time I like Honey is on toast and I do not have toast very often either lol.

We should support out local growers and producers. Also the bees are wonderful for us to utilize for all the products that can be gleaned from them. Sometimes to pay a bit more is totally worth it overall. Fresher, native, loyal etc. Am glad that you have discovered this and are embracing the goodness it offers.

Honey is really good for the body. I use it in place of sugar..and yes, "local" honey is better than those found in the supermarket as those are already processed. Though I haven't tried switching suppliers yet, maybe I'll do that and see if there's any difference! Thanks for the tip!

we get ours from a driveway honesty box about 5 minutes walk from our cottage.

I try to buy local honey whenever possible. It is said that you can build an immunity to allergies by eating honey that is made locally.

my mom keeps saying the same. she says that raw, unrefined, country honey is much better than smooth, golden and well packaged ones. according to her, we kinda destroy the nutrients by refining and adding external agents for color and flavor. this is is true for rice aswell. the more crude it is, the more good its for our health. refining shreds off the essential nutrients and we are left with the less nutritious ones. honey is an amazing creation of God with varied and unsurpassable utility. check this out: 1. As it contains sugars which are quickly absorbed by our digestive system and converted into energy, this can be used as instant energizer. 2. As it is hygroscopic it speeds up healing, growth of healing tissue and dries it up. 3. Honey acts as a sedative and is very useful in bed wetting disorders. 4. Honey is very good antioxident which restores the damaged skin and gives soft, young looks. 5. Honey has antibacterial properties due to its acidic nature and enzymically produced hydrogen peroxide. 6. Constant use of honey strengthens the white blood corpuscles to fight bacteria and viral diseases

"Unless we are pregnant, under a year old" - these strike my attention. Why is honey not good for them? I remember my friend taking in honey - local and imported when she was pregnant and the baby came out weighing 7.10 and she also fed the baby with honey continuously until grown up. Well, yes, local honey is better because it is not processed. In the processing, of course, there are some ingredients already added and that makes it not better than the local honey especially fresh from the farm.

yes local honey is bettr for health and some honey toay getting in market is adultrated also and that is bad for health.

Honey contains bits and pieces of pollen and honey, and as an immune system booster, it is quite powerful. I have often in talks and articles, and in my books, advocated using local honey. Frequently I'll get emails from readers who want to know exactly what I mean by local honey, and how "local" should it be. This is what I usually advise:Allergies arise from continuous over-exposure to the same allergens. If, for example, you live in an area where there is a great deal of red clover growing, and if in addition you often feed red clover hay to your own horses or cattle, then it likely you are exposed over and over to pollen from this same red clover. Now, red clover pollen is not especially allergenic but still, with time, a serious allergy to it can easily arise. Another example: if you lived in a southern area where bottlebrush trees were frequently used in the landscapes or perhaps you had a bottlebrush tree growing in your own yard, your odds of over-exposure to this tree's tiny, triangular, and potently very allergenic pollen is greatly enhanced. In the two examples used above, both species of plants are what we call amphipilous, meaning they are pollinated by both insects and by the wind. Honeybees will collect pollen from each of these species and it will be present in small amounts in honey that was gathered by bees that were working areas where these species are growing. When people living in these same areas eat honey that was produced in that environment, the honey will often act as an immune booster. The good effects of this local honey are best when the honey is taken a little bit (a couple of teaspoons-full) a day for several months prior to the pollen season. get honey that was raised closest to where you live, the closer the better since it will have more of exactly what you'll need. It may seem odd that straight exposure to pollen often triggers allergies but that exposure to pollen in the honey usually has the opposite effect. But this is typically what we see. In honey the allergens are delivered in small, manageable doses and the effect over time is very much like that from undergoing a whole series of allergy immunology injections. The major difference though is that the honey is a lot easier to take and it is certainly a lot less expensive. I am always surprised that this powerful health benefit of local honey is not more widely understood, as it is simple, easy, and often surprisingly effective.

Local honey helps with alergies because it works like a natural alergy shot. It causes your body to build natural immunity to pollens and other allergens that you are regularly exposed to.

I switched to local honey a couple of years ago and I won't go back. Not only does it taste better, but my allergies have not been nearly as bad the last two years even though most people around me say their allergies have been worse (they don't eat local honey!). I feel fortunate to live in a place where local honey is easy to find. It's a little more expensive but 100% worth it.

Thank you for that information. I will do that. There is a man down the road from us who does make his own honey from the hives he keeps. My son is the one with asthma, and of the course the one who loves honey! I never gave the connection any thought before.

That's really interesting! When you explain it that way it makes a lot of sense. I don't have asthma problems but I know a few people who might benefit from this knowledge. Thanks for sharing it!

Yss honey is very good for us and is healthy, when I was growing up I used to always go to a neighbours house that had their own bee hive and used to sell honey it was very different to the one that you buy in the local supermarkets, so I think that you may have a point here.

I just love honey and haven't had it in so long. I remember when mom used to get us the 'bear' container filled with it; I thought it was so neat. CJ saw it in the store some time ago and just had to have it because he thought it was, 'Winnie the Pooh'...the only thing was, he wouldn't let us open it! I'm sure we have a local supplier; I'm going to do some research and find some, soon. Thank you for posting this for us.

Yes local honey is better because the bees eat the same things that you are allergic too. Thus helping your immunine system deal with the very things that you are allergic too. My brother has bees and a neighbor has bees so we always have local honey. I even use pure honey in my bath water so my skin can soak up the local honey there too. However something is killing all the bees so I am really getting concerned.

I heared it was god for u, as well/.

There is no other place for me to buy honey but the supermarket. I live in the city and I guess the local honey suppliers must be somewhere in the outskirts which would be quite incovenient for me. But I had a bad experience once when I bought a local honey. It wasn't pure honey because after a couple of weeks I noticed clumps of sugar at the bottom of the bottle. Now I am thinking twice about buying that expensive Sue Bee honey and the ones with a bottle shaped like a bear? I have no allergies for honey so maybe it doesn't make any difference if I continue patronizing those available in the supermarket.