Commercial American beekeepers use antibiotics as well often prophylactically, so needlessly. Also all the miticides, fungicides, and so on. If you want to avoid that kind of thing, you will need to buy organic.
I expect you know that heated honey will not help the allergy thing, because it destroys the pollen. Mostly. I've definitely had allergy reactions to honey, so it's something to approach carefully if you have extreme issues.
In the comb is great, except often the foundation is wax from many different sources and may contain all the bad residues you don't want. The only way to avoid that is to get fully natural comb, which I can't say I've ever seen available. If the middle of the comb isn't paper thin, it's wax foundation and thus suspect.
nancy... the point is.... no foreign honey can be considered reliable, BECAUSE of the fact that they are faking the paper trails into this country.
i think Canadian honey is fine (this wont help your allergies) but honestly? i cant trust it. because they have faked it as being "canadian" too...
if i cant trace back the honey to an american producer.... its just not trustworthy.. and not all american producers are either.
as to food? i dont eat any food product, or thing that touches food , that originates outside of america, canada,the great britain commonwealth, or very rarely a few other places *for specialty items* like Japan or France or Germany. (like beer, i buy beer from germany)
if the dried mushrooms are not form japan or the usa, i dont buy them. period.
now i find out that antibiotic and worse contaminated honey has been sold here in the usa labled as "canadian" and etc..... sorry.. Bzzzzzzzzt! next
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I expect you know that heated honey will not help the allergy thing, because it destroys the pollen. Mostly. I've definitely had allergy reactions to honey, so it's something to approach carefully if you have extreme issues.
In the comb is great, except often the foundation is wax from many different sources and may contain all the bad residues you don't want. The only way to avoid that is to get fully natural comb, which I can't say I've ever seen available. If the middle of the comb isn't paper thin, it's wax foundation and thus suspect.
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i mean, i find them often at farmers markets.. but you can do a search on "city name" and "beekeeper" or "local honey"
incidentally, really Raw honey, from whole foods... while expensive, is a good start
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and there is a local farm i bought from once, and i got a small amount from a home beekeeper i know.
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i will try to look up my addresses.
i love the bee folks honey, and buy it every single pennsic.. in quantity! but for allergy relief you may do well to buy closer.
i have a local beekeeper in new jeersey i have used.... and i KNOW there is some for sale at Styer Orchanrds north of the city
do check the co-ops first though, weavers way especially
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i think Canadian honey is fine (this wont help your allergies) but honestly? i cant trust it. because they have faked it as being "canadian" too...
if i cant trace back the honey to an american producer.... its just not trustworthy.. and not all american producers are either.
as to food? i dont eat any food product, or thing that touches food , that originates outside of america, canada,the great britain commonwealth, or very rarely a few other places *for specialty items* like Japan or France or Germany. (like beer, i buy beer from germany)
if the dried mushrooms are not form japan or the usa, i dont buy them. period.
now i find out that antibiotic and worse contaminated honey has been sold here in the usa labled as "canadian" and etc..... sorry.. Bzzzzzzzzt! next
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I wouldn't have been twitching about buying local or small producer honey.
Meanwhile, I'm looking forward to the farmer's markets being open around here again. Not much more than a month, I hope.
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