STORAGE: All pure honey granulates, some in a week or so and some not for several years. Store honey at room temperature, never in a refrigerator. If honey crystallizes, place in a container of warm water until completely liquefied. Careful not to boil or scorch the honey.
*It is advisable that children should be at least one year old before consuming any honey product. Honey frequently contains dormant endospores of the bacterium clostridium botulinum- which can cause problems in children under 1 year of age.
"For a long time I've been trying to find a healthful, good tasting, affordable honey, and I've finally found it... Im already benefiting from a tablespoon of your raw wildflower honey at bedtime, better than any sleeping pill, and it's all-over calming effect". -Richard January 2010
"Thanks for educating me about Buckwheat honey helping my allergies. I'm adjusting to Hollister (Ca) weather after living in San Francisco for years and was having a hard time breathing. The honey helped"!! - Becky July 2009
"if Gipson Golden is honey, then what have I been eating all these years?" -Very satisfied customer August 2007
"Honey contains many vitamins such as B6, thiamin and niacin and essential minerals such as calcium, iron, potassium and zinc. It is also a source of antioxidants which aid in the removal of free radicals from the body". -National Honey Board Longmont, CO 80501
"Mass-produced honeys on supermarket shelves are relatively bland and one-dimensional. They are blends of several different types of honey, all of which have been superheated and filtered before being bottled. 'Single-flower' honeys are sweeteners with real personality, as different from one another in flavor, color and texture as one extra-virgin olive or fine wine is from another. For those familiar with only supermarket blends, the single-flower honeys that come from small artisan producers are revelation". -Martha Stewart, Living March 2000
FUN FACTS:
-Bees may travel as far as 55,000 miles and visit more than two million flowers to gather enough nectar to make just a pound of honey.
-About one-third of the human diet is derived from insect-pollinated plants, and honey bees are responsible for 80 percent of this pollination.
-Did you know bees have 4 wings and 5 eyes?
-As a natural humectant, honey has the ability to attract and retain moisture
-Wing stroke is about 11,400 times a minute
-The average speed of a bee is 20mph
-A queen bee lays 1,000-1,500 eggs in a single day
-All bees communicate by "dancing"
-Most micro-organisms do not grow in honey because of its low water activity of 0.6.
-Bees are truly one of science's great mysteries because they have remained unchanged for over 20 million years- even though the entire world around them has
-Honey gets its sweetness from the monosarcharides, fructose, and glucose and has approximately the same relative sweetness as that of granulated sugar
-In winter, bees eat 35lbs (just enough for energy) of their honey, collected during spring. They stay clustered together, waiting for spring.
-Drones, while bigger than workers, can not sting. Their eyes are almost twice as big because their main function is to fertilize a queen while flying in the air!
-Life expectancy of a drone is 90 days
Information provided by the National Honey Board
Updated- January 2010
Gipson's Golden contact information:
Phone (707)576-1235
Fax (707)576-9001
Email: beekeeper@gipsonsgolden.com
Address: 3433A Regional Parkway Santa Rosa, CA. 95401
*It is advisable that children should be at least one year old before consuming any honey product. Honey frequently contains dormant endospores of the bacterium clostridium botulinum- which can cause problems in children under 1 year of age.
"For a long time I've been trying to find a healthful, good tasting, affordable honey, and I've finally found it... Im already benefiting from a tablespoon of your raw wildflower honey at bedtime, better than any sleeping pill, and it's all-over calming effect". -Richard January 2010
"Thanks for educating me about Buckwheat honey helping my allergies. I'm adjusting to Hollister (Ca) weather after living in San Francisco for years and was having a hard time breathing. The honey helped"!! - Becky July 2009
"if Gipson Golden is honey, then what have I been eating all these years?" -Very satisfied customer August 2007
"Honey contains many vitamins such as B6, thiamin and niacin and essential minerals such as calcium, iron, potassium and zinc. It is also a source of antioxidants which aid in the removal of free radicals from the body". -National Honey Board Longmont, CO 80501
"Mass-produced honeys on supermarket shelves are relatively bland and one-dimensional. They are blends of several different types of honey, all of which have been superheated and filtered before being bottled. 'Single-flower' honeys are sweeteners with real personality, as different from one another in flavor, color and texture as one extra-virgin olive or fine wine is from another. For those familiar with only supermarket blends, the single-flower honeys that come from small artisan producers are revelation". -Martha Stewart, Living March 2000
FUN FACTS:
-Bees may travel as far as 55,000 miles and visit more than two million flowers to gather enough nectar to make just a pound of honey.
-About one-third of the human diet is derived from insect-pollinated plants, and honey bees are responsible for 80 percent of this pollination.
-Did you know bees have 4 wings and 5 eyes?
-As a natural humectant, honey has the ability to attract and retain moisture
-Wing stroke is about 11,400 times a minute
-The average speed of a bee is 20mph
-A queen bee lays 1,000-1,500 eggs in a single day
-All bees communicate by "dancing"
-Most micro-organisms do not grow in honey because of its low water activity of 0.6.
-Bees are truly one of science's great mysteries because they have remained unchanged for over 20 million years- even though the entire world around them has
-Honey gets its sweetness from the monosarcharides, fructose, and glucose and has approximately the same relative sweetness as that of granulated sugar
-In winter, bees eat 35lbs (just enough for energy) of their honey, collected during spring. They stay clustered together, waiting for spring.
-Drones, while bigger than workers, can not sting. Their eyes are almost twice as big because their main function is to fertilize a queen while flying in the air!
-Life expectancy of a drone is 90 days
Information provided by the National Honey Board
Updated- January 2010
Gipson's Golden contact information:
Phone (707)576-1235
Fax (707)576-9001
Email: beekeeper@gipsonsgolden.com
Address: 3433A Regional Parkway Santa Rosa, CA. 95401
Gipson's Golden, Inc.
