McCarty Apiaries

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

happy flowers make happy honeybees

Foreshadow of a HOT summer?

a 90 degree forecast for Sunday MAY foreshadow HOT summer.Early demise for flowers unless we get rain!...no flowers=>sad bees, less honey.

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Introducing our Junior Beekeeper

Monday, September 19, 2011

a beekeeper's hobby...

He's all kilted and ready to throw heavy objects (not including myself).

Monday, September 12, 2011

a kind note from a beekeeper's wife:

Please reconsider before using pesticides in your yard... pesticides => thousands of dead bees => no honey to share with others => one disappointed beekeeper.

A fall update on our bees, honey production and upcoming products will be forthcoming! Prices and availability of products are currently being revised. Please note this when visiting the site. THANKS!

Friday, June 10, 2011

Buzzy.

The bees here at McCarty Apiaries have wasted NO time this spring and have upped their honey production from previous years. We plan to extract the spring honey soon. It is a lighter honey, in color, and is sweeter in taste than the honey extracted in the fall.

We will soon be taking orders for honey...stay tuned!

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Hiatus!

Spring is a much-welcomed season in our household. The bees start buzzing with more activity, as do WE in our household.

Much-needed sorting, cleaning and preparing is currently occurring at McCarty Apiaries. We lost a hive this winter, but we are currently awaiting the arrival of a new one to accompany our remaining two. We hope to have a great year.

Production of products will resume soon...STAY TUNED!

The Bees Knees: Let it BEE Yours.

Our lip balms are hand-poured. We blend coconut oil, jojoba oil, vitamin E, lanolin, beeswax and essential oils to create a quality product.

The cost per tube is $2.50. Email or call to order.

Although check or cash will not BEE denied, the preferred method of payment, if convenient for you, is PayPal. You may pay to the following account: cmccarty01@gmail.com. Please make a NOTE of what the payment is for.

Please consider PayPal’s fees when making any payments to McCarty Apiaries:

Receiving money – Personal payments:

It's free to receive money from friends or family in the U.S. when they send the money from the PayPal website using only their PayPal balance or their bank account, or a combination of their PayPal balance and bank account.

If you receive a personal payment made from a debit card or credit card, the sender has the option to pay the fee or pass it on to you. If you don't want to pay the fee, you can choose not to accept the payment.

NOTE: Any payments sent with fees attached will not be accepted.

Thanks for your consideration!

SWEET BEE HEALING BALMS AND VAPOR RUBS

Healing Hand & Body Balm

Beeswax, sweet almond oil, coconut oil, jojoba oil, comfrey oil, rosemary. (available in lavender-bergamot or sweet orange chamomile)

This balm goes far on dry patches or for use on hands. Just a pinch will do!

Cost for 2 oz. is $4.75

(currently unavailable)

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Vapor Rub

olive oil, beeswax, essential oils. (available in peppermint-eucalyptus or lavender-rosemary)

McCarty Apiaries presents a tranquil and soothing vapor rub. Rub on chest, back, and under nose. Use this rub to open sinuses and soothe dryness caused by wiping.

The cost per for 2 oz. is $3.75.

THE SKINNY ON BEESWAX

Beeswax is a byproduct of honey production. It makes wonderful lip balms, hand lotions, hand creams, moisturizers, in cosmetics, wood finishes, waxes, leather polishes; waterproofing products, and dental molds.
It is impervious to water and unaffected by mildew. It has a melting point of 143 to 148 degrees F. and should only be heated using a double boiler as it is flammable when subjected to fire and flames. It is pliable at 100 degrees F.

Beeswax is produced by the (female) worker honeybees. The wax is secreted from wax glands on the underside of the bee's abdomen and is molded into six-sided cells which are filled with honey, then capped with more wax. When honey is harvested, the top layer of wax that covers the cells, the cappings, must be removed from each hexagon-shaped cell.

Bees use their wax to "glue" together the wooden frames in their hive, and that must be scraped off so the frames can be separated. The beeswax, which contains some honey, bee parts, and other impurities, must be melted and filtered or strained.
Most beeswax is gold or yellow but can also be in shades of orange, brown, etc. The color of the wax is in most part determined by the type of plants the bees collect nectar from. Beeswax has a delightful, light fragrance of honey, flower nectar and pollen.
Beeswax makes superior, slow burning candles. Beeswax burns more beautifully than any other wax. It exudes a faint, natural fragrance of honey and pollen. When candles are made with the proper size of wicking, they are smokeless, dripless, and burn with a bright flame.

If you wonder why beeswax is so expensive, consider this: It has been estimated that bees must fly 150,000 miles to produce one pound of wax. Bees must eat about six pounds of honey to secrete a pound of wax. For every 100 pounds of honey a beekeeper harvests, only one to two pounds of beeswax are produced.