<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"><channel><title><![CDATA[Wildling Honey]]></title><description><![CDATA[Urban beekeeping Los Angeles]]></description><link>https://wildlinghoney.com/</link><image><url>http://wildlinghoney.com/favicon.png</url><title>Wildling Honey</title><link>https://wildlinghoney.com/</link></image><generator>Ghost 1.21</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:42:16 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://wildlinghoney.com/rss/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><ttl>60</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[BEWARE OF THE TRASH BAG BEEKEEPER]]></title><description><![CDATA[<div class="kg-card-markdown"><p>Beware of hiring a “Trash Bag Beekeeper”!</p>
<p>I’m here to tell you the terrible truth about the “Trash Bag Beekeepers”. The stories come from customers who have experienced them first hand. Over the past several years I've heard numerous tales of homeowners hiring a so-called “beekeeper” to perform a</p></div>]]></description><link>https://wildlinghoney.com/beware-of-the-trash-bag-beekeeper/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">66c4f1c27ca65606e7f0eb04</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 21 Aug 2024 17:31:15 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="kg-card-markdown"><p>Beware of hiring a “Trash Bag Beekeeper”!</p>
<p>I’m here to tell you the terrible truth about the “Trash Bag Beekeepers”. The stories come from customers who have experienced them first hand. Over the past several years I've heard numerous tales of homeowners hiring a so-called “beekeeper” to perform a live bee relocation only to their dismay learn that the &quot;beekeeper&quot; was not in fact a beekeeper and at a great cost to the bees.</p>
<p>A trash bag beekeeper is often an exterminator in disguise, or someone who poses as a beekeeper doing live honeybee relocations just for the money. They do not preserve the bees wax comb or the babies. In fact, they generally don’t really care about the bees at all. They will toss all the bees comb, that includes the bees brood (babies) and their food (pollen and nectar) into a large trash bag. They put the bees into a box and oftentimes dump the bees alongside a road or field somewhere never to return. Customers pay premium prices for this and don’t really get what they should. This is a terrible situation and means certain death for the bees.</p>
<p>A live honey bee relocation beekeeper will remove the bees alive, by hand or by a special bee vac, place all their comb into frames using rubber bands or twine and put the bees and the banded comb (that includes the bees food and babies) into a beekeepers beehive box which is generally made of wood.  The beekeeper will then transport the bees to an apiary where the bees will be rehabilitated and checked on monthly. It is also helpful to hire someone close to you, as transporting bees is a delicate process. Bees' bodies produce a lot of heat, so traveling great distances means the bees could easily overheat and die unless extremely well ventilated transportation gear is used.</p>
<p>It’s a good idea to have references for whom you hire and to ask questions like:</p>
<p>How long have you been a beekeeper?<br>
Do you save the honeybees comb with the babies and their food?<br>
Do you tend beehives?<br>
Do you sell honey?<br>
Do you offer beekeeping classes or apiary tours?<br>
Where will the bees live?<br>
Do you check on the bees monthly?</p>
<p>A true beekeeper will do several of the above.<br>
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</div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crystallized Honey]]></title><description><![CDATA[<div class="kg-card-markdown"><p>Did you know that the purity of raw honey is in the crystallization? All pure raw honey will crystallize eventually.</p>
<p>Processed honey goes through a filtering and extreme heat process that removes all the health benefits of raw honey, but it will make the honey not crystallize. It could still</p></div>]]></description><link>https://wildlinghoney.com/crystalized-honey/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">66269f617ca65606e7f0eaf1</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2024 17:49:55 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="kg-card-markdown"><p>Did you know that the purity of raw honey is in the crystallization? All pure raw honey will crystallize eventually.</p>
<p>Processed honey goes through a filtering and extreme heat process that removes all the health benefits of raw honey, but it will make the honey not crystallize. It could still be labeled pure honey, but it is missing the benefits of raw unprocessed honey.</p>
<p>Crystallization is a process in which sugar crystals will grow, this will make the honey cloudy and possibly turn into a solid. Depending on what flowers the bees have foraged also effects crystallization, it can increase or decreases the amount of crystallization that will happen in the honey. Some honeys will be gooey and chunky and some more solid. The more pollen and wax in the raw honey the more likely it will crystallize. Eating bits of wax and pollen in your honey has so many health benefits.</p>
<p>Getting honey back to its gooey self is as easy as placing the jar in warm sunlight for a day or giving it a hot water bath. Store honey in warm places to slow the crystallization process, but dont worry you can always gently warm the honey up and it will be just as good and just as gooey.</p>
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</div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beecoming the "Bee Lady"]]></title><description><![CDATA[<div class="kg-card-markdown"><p>Long ago I migrated to Eagle Rock from Silverlake. For reasons unknown, maybe something in the soil, it is not uncommon for an &quot;Eagle Rocker&quot;, one who resides in Eagle Rock-Los Angeles, to take a deep dive into organic urban farming ie; raised veg beds, fruit trees, trellised</p></div>]]></description><link>https://wildlinghoney.com/bees-are-my-vibe/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">65ebb5357ca65606e7f0eae9</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2024 01:17:47 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="kg-card-markdown"><p>Long ago I migrated to Eagle Rock from Silverlake. For reasons unknown, maybe something in the soil, it is not uncommon for an &quot;Eagle Rocker&quot;, one who resides in Eagle Rock-Los Angeles, to take a deep dive into organic urban farming ie; raised veg beds, fruit trees, trellised gourds, and backyard chickens. I found myself deep into this phenomenon of urban farming by 2012, just two years upon arriving to Eagle Rock. I also became oddly connected to the bugs that came long with having a garden. The six legged, creepy creatures of all shapes and sizes, good and bad. Struggling to keep my garden healthy and organic I stumbled upon and learned through Sepp Holzer's Permaculture, A Practical Guide to Small-Scale Integrative Farming and Gardening that, &quot;there is nothing to fight in a healthy environment, because nature is perfect&quot;, his philosophy on balancing insect populations by bio-diverse plantings, &quot;the more diverse a system is, the more stable it will be&quot;. So I started planting beneficial insect plant &quot;walls&quot; around my raised veg beds to attract the good bugs to balance out the populations of the not so good bugs. In doing so, I lured in a lot of bees, bumbles, mantids, butterflies, ladybugs, and so many other lovely beneficial insects. I created this insect paradise that soon had my toddler and myself, absolutely obsessed with bugs. We spent each afternoon tending the garden, me thinning carrots and pinching tomatoes, him catching ladybugs, mantids, and petting bees. YES! He would pet the backs of the bees. At first I panicked, as a kid I was told I was allergic to bees and I thought if a bee landed on you, it would likely sting no matter what. I was one of those who immediately freaked, swatted and ran. But I didn't do that this time. I calmed myself and continued to observe my son take his tiny little finger, without fear, and gently stroke the back of the bees all while the bees went about their beesness. It was with this sweet little interaction I became enamored with bees. Now I assumed I already had a whole beehive in my yard based purely on the amount of bees yumming on my lavender, but I soon learned that I indeed did not. Many books and web searches later I was hooked on keeping bees. I adopted a beehive from a local beek (bee geek) who needed a new home for one of his beehives and the very next spring I started capturing swarms on my own with bait hives. I kept up with my bee practice, taking a few local courses through HoneyLove.org, but mostly tending to these enigmatic creatures and learning on my own. After a year or so the word got out that I kept bees and soon I started getting calls to rescue bees from friends and their neighbors. I found myself scaling trees, cutting open concrete walls and rescuing bees from demolition sites using an infarred camera to locate the bees and a cornucopia of power tools. Today I share numourous apiaries with another beek. Bee culture in Los Angeles has expanded since I started and more and more Angelenos are taking up the hobby. I've found myself helping others tend their bees and teaching a few workshops each year. For me life without bees is no life at all. In all the times I am saving the bees I truly believe the bees are saving me. There is just something so magical about the bees.</p>
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</div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Buzz]]></title><description><![CDATA[<div class="kg-card-markdown"><p><a href="https://www.theeastsiderla.com/neighborhoods/eagle_rock/the-bee-whisperer/article_626e8c7a-4e62-11ee-b06a-5b14816cf590.html">https://www.theeastsiderla.com/neighborhoods/eagle_rock/the-bee-whisperer/article_626e8c7a-4e62-11ee-b06a-5b14816cf590.html</a></p>
<p><a href="https://womankindmag.com/articles/wk32/">https://womankindmag.com/articles/wk32/</a></p>
<p><a href="https://76510742.flowpaper.com/WK32/#page=121">https://76510742.flowpaper.com/WK32/#page=121</a></p>
<p><a href="https://beekeeperconfidential.podbean.com/e/the-benefits-of-feral-bees-jen-power-marvin-jordana/">https://beekeeperconfidential.podbean.com/e/the-benefits-of-feral-bees-jen-power-marvin-jordana/</a></p>
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</div>]]></description><link>https://wildlinghoney.com/the-buzz/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">65eba75f7ca65606e7f0eae8</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2024 00:11:18 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="kg-card-markdown"><p><a href="https://www.theeastsiderla.com/neighborhoods/eagle_rock/the-bee-whisperer/article_626e8c7a-4e62-11ee-b06a-5b14816cf590.html">https://www.theeastsiderla.com/neighborhoods/eagle_rock/the-bee-whisperer/article_626e8c7a-4e62-11ee-b06a-5b14816cf590.html</a></p>
<p><a href="https://womankindmag.com/articles/wk32/">https://womankindmag.com/articles/wk32/</a></p>
<p><a href="https://76510742.flowpaper.com/WK32/#page=121">https://76510742.flowpaper.com/WK32/#page=121</a></p>
<p><a href="https://beekeeperconfidential.podbean.com/e/the-benefits-of-feral-bees-jen-power-marvin-jordana/">https://beekeeperconfidential.podbean.com/e/the-benefits-of-feral-bees-jen-power-marvin-jordana/</a></p>
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</div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beeswax Candles]]></title><description><![CDATA[<div class="kg-card-markdown"><p>NEW 2025! <strong>Pure Beeswax Tea Light Candles</strong></p>
<p>Just in tme for Halloween Pumpkins!!</p>
<p>Sustainably Harvested and Hand Poured complete with All-Natural Cotton Wicks - $1 Each</p>
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</div>]]></description><link>https://wildlinghoney.com/beeswax-birthday-candles/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">60de58567ca65606e7f0ea6e</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2021 00:06:39 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="kg-card-markdown"><p>NEW 2025! <strong>Pure Beeswax Tea Light Candles</strong></p>
<p>Just in tme for Halloween Pumpkins!!</p>
<p>Sustainably Harvested and Hand Poured complete with All-Natural Cotton Wicks - $1 Each</p>
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</div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honey]]></title><description><![CDATA[<div class="kg-card-markdown"><p>First let me thank you for your consideration to purchase my honey. All of the bees I care for are rescues from around Northeast Los Angeles. The proceeds from honey &amp; product sales go right back into care and housing for these bees.</p>
<p>2025 Honey is here!</p>
<p>$21 per 1lb</p></div>]]></description><link>https://wildlinghoney.com/honey/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5a9cce1a7ca65606e7f0e93c</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 27 Feb 2020 18:52:35 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://wildlinghoney.com/content/images/2020/08/IMG_6285-3.jpg" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="kg-card-markdown"><img src="https://wildlinghoney.com/content/images/2020/08/IMG_6285-3.jpg" alt="Honey"><p>First let me thank you for your consideration to purchase my honey. All of the bees I care for are rescues from around Northeast Los Angeles. The proceeds from honey &amp; product sales go right back into care and housing for these bees.</p>
<p>2025 Honey is here!</p>
<p>$21 per 1lb jar of honey</p>
<p><strong>Los Feliz Gold</strong> <em>SOLD OUT</em> - A single sourced honey from an apiary located on a gorgeous Los Feliz hillside. The hives are surrounded by a variety of fruit trees like; Sapote, Loquat, pomegranate and avocado plus wildflowers like Elderberry and Eucalyptus. This honey is light gold and sweet with a nice balance of florals. Hint of cotton candy on the finish.</p>
<p><strong>Eagle Rock Amber</strong> <em>SOLD OUT</em> - A single sourced amber honey from backyard hives in the heart of Eagle Rock. This honey has a good balance of our local and loved urban florals &amp; fruits. The hives are surrounded by; guava, lavender, rosemary, wild fennel, fig, persimmon, pomegranate, sunflower and a variety of citrus fruit trees. The bees also forage nearby wild native buckwheat on the hillsides of Eagle Rock. You can really taste the florals in this one. The finish is very sweet and delicious.</p>
<p><strong>Highland Park Amber</strong> <em>SOLD OUT</em> -  Backyard harvested from a native plant garden in Highland Park that includes; sage, cactus, eucalyptus and buckwheat. The honey is dark amber, sweet and earthy with notes of cowboy sage and buckwheat. Lots of robust flavor lingering on the tongue. If your looking for a herbacious medicinal honey this one has what it takes.</p>
<p><strong>Glassell Park Gold</strong> - <em>ALMOST GONE</em> A generous apiary located on a hillside in the heart of Glassell Park. Surrounded by urban florals and backed by wild natives like sumac, mallow, sage, buckwheat and elderberry. A beautiful gold, super sweet and smooth honey. Well balanced and perfect for everything you want to drizzle it over.</p>
<p><strong>Montecito Heights Amber</strong> <em>Very Popular</em> - A generous apiary on a hilltop in the heart of Montecito Heights. The apiary is surrounded by natives like elderberry, sage, buckwheat, peppercorn and eucalyptus, plus a cornucopia of backyard fruit trees like citrus, peach, passion fruit, guava, pomegranate, sapote and apple. This honey is a deep amber color and feels medicinal on the tongue with a mild spiciness on the finish that builds in your mouth. If you are looking for a honey that is wild, adventurous, earthy and medicinal try this one.</p>
<p><em>Local pick up or delivery only. Text, Email or PM to order.</em></p>
<p>Honey is harvested locally around Northeast Los Angeles from backyard hives and sold seasonally. All bees are rescued bees from around NELA. I typically harvest honey in late August or September. I do not harvest more honey than what is honorable to the bees. It is common for beekeepers to intentionally over harvest honey or to move bees away from their pollen and nectar sources resulting in the requirement to have to supplement the bees food supply with artificial man-made pollen and simple syrup aka sugar water. Being a smaller scale backyard beekeeper means my bees are 100% treatment-free and the honey they produce is 100% bee foraged nectar, unadulterated honey. Treatment-free beekeeping means I do not put any harsh chemicals in the hive and on the bees for mite prevention and I don't force the bees to build honeycomb on plastic honeycomb foundation. I allow the bees to develop their own resistance and hygiene habits to resist disease and parasites like the Varroa Mite. Building their own comb also means more beneficial bacteria for the brood (baby bees), adult bees and the honey. Healthy, Happy bees.<br>
To honor the bees, each apiary location is harvested and bottled individually. I get a range of unique colors and complex flavors.<br>
Thank you for supporting your local beekeepers!<br>
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</div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bee a Friend]]></title><description><![CDATA[<div class="kg-card-markdown"><p>Everyone is buzzing with the news that bee populations are on the decline. This is true and not just true for honeybees, but for all our native pollinators (the ones we don't manage and keep). Did you know that native bumble bees are now on the endangered species list (Bombus</p></div>]]></description><link>https://wildlinghoney.com/bee-a-friend/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5e4897437ca65606e7f0e9f0</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2020 01:54:26 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://wildlinghoney.com/content/images/2020/08/89486885-356C-426F-9B90-89CCD80CDEC9.JPG" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="kg-card-markdown"><img src="https://wildlinghoney.com/content/images/2020/08/89486885-356C-426F-9B90-89CCD80CDEC9.JPG" alt="Bee a Friend"><p>Everyone is buzzing with the news that bee populations are on the decline. This is true and not just true for honeybees, but for all our native pollinators (the ones we don't manage and keep). Did you know that native bumble bees are now on the endangered species list (Bombus Affinis)? They are with more pollinators petitioned and waiting to be added. The first Europeans brought honeybees (Apis Mellifera) to pollinate the seeds they brought to grow food and be able to feed their familes. Today without honeybees we would not be able to grow enough food to feed everyone in the US. Some people say since honeybees are not native they are the ones destroying the native bee populations.  This is untrue, because what is happening to native bees is also happening to the honeybees. They are both dying. The difference is native bees are not managed by beekeepers so saving them means we have to do more than what beekeepers are doing in the honeybees hives. We need to change alot to how we grow food and manage agricultural animals. So why are we just now losing bees if the first Euporeans brought bees to North America so long ago? Major factors like the long over use of pesticides on giant monocrop farms, massive habitat loss due to commericial and residential development, parasites/pathogens and global warming play key roles in the decline of pollinators. Agricultural chemicals (neonicotinoids) were created to prevent crop loss, now those chemicals are killing off our bees and other pollinators. These beneficial insects are losing the battle, and in the end they may take us with them. I mean every third bite of food you ate today is because of bees. What would happend if all the bees died? Well, we would be soon to follow, at least that is what has been said. Bees and other pollinators require a biodiverse environment to stay healthy. They are losing natural habitats to agriculture and land development. The fungicides, miticides, pesticides and herbicides of the world are destroying their beneficial gut bacteria causing them to become easily sick and not able to recover. Those same chemicals cause permanent damage to the queenbee's reproductive system. The chemical run-off from non-organic farms pollute bees water sources and the very ground in which some species of bees live in and nest. How can we help? Vote on legislation to ban the use of all neonicotinoids (mega-harsh farming chemicals still used in the US). Buy as much organic as you can. Buy fruit and veg local from smaller operations &amp; honey from bee-loving, local beekeepers. Grow a chemical-free garden.  Plant pollinator friendly herbs, and trees that bloom at various seasons. Plant a sunflower patch for the summer. Make a bee waterer. Don't rake leaves as this disturbs native ground burrowing bees. Go lawn-free. Allow dandelions and other weeds to grow in you'r yard and allow you'r vegtable garden go to seed. Talk about the importance of bees and other pollinators with you'r friends and family. Call a reputable beekeeper if you have an unwanted beehive, not a pest control company or the city - Ask where the bees will be kept and who will take care of them.</p>
<p>Remember one out of every third bite of food you eat is because of bees and pollination.<br>
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</div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Welcome to Wildling Honey]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wildling Honey is an all-natural, treatment-free urban beekeeper located in Eagle Rock - Los Angeles, CA...]]></description><link>https://wildlinghoney.com/welcome/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5a7640caf940ac11aa635dc2</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 03 Feb 2018 23:20:53 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://wildlinghoney.com/content/images/2018/12/honey_drink_crop.JPG" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="kg-card-markdown"><img src="https://wildlinghoney.com/content/images/2018/12/honey_drink_crop.JPG" alt="Welcome to Wildling Honey"><p>A natural, treatment-free, chemical-free lady beekeeper in Eagle Rock - Los Angeles, CA.</p>
<p>Got bees? I offer live, gentle beehive and bee swarm removal and relocation. All rescued bees are rehomed locally around NE Los Angeles in urban apiaries. Removals always include a conversation and a bit of education about bees and you can get updates on the bees you save. I rehabilitate relocated bees and care for them for the rest of their lives.  See connect page for contact information.</p>
<p>Want to bee a host? See the Bee a Host page.</p>
<p><a href="http://wildlinghoney.com/contact/">Call or email us</a> to get started. We look forward to hearing from you!<br>
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