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I watched a neat documentary showing how beekeepers rent out their hives to other farmers of different plants for pollination. I think the one they were focusing on rented them out to some almond tree farmers in California.
That's truly a wonderful thing! My son has seasonal allergies, and one of the reasons why I'd like to keep bees is to get him the local honey. Can't get much more local than your own back yard. He gets really sick of it but the honey does help curb his symptoms every spring, and I'd rather give him that than pharmaceuticals. At least with the honey, his symptoms are less and less severe each year.
Interesting, in all of my interest in medicinal uses of different foods, I had not heard that about honey. Thanks.
It's gotta be local to your region. So we're in northeast Ohio, ideally I want to get honey from bees that are within 15 to 20 miles of our home. And it should be raw; the pasteurization process takes all the good stuff out of it and it becomes useless at that point. But I can tell you first hand that it does work. The logic is that the pollen and allergens that affect you adversely are those in your area, and the honey made from those very allergens give a sort of immunity effect when eating it. It builds up in your body until you're less bothered by it. That's what I read, anyway.