It's been awhile since my last post here. I caught a slight cold last week. Aster a couple of days, I decided to raid the hives for my remedy. Here you can see a nice chunk of honey and pollen laden comb I scraped out of one of my Carniolan colonies the other day. Chewing on it as I write. Well my cold is gone. Coincidence or bee medicine? You tell me.
Of course that does not fully explain the gap in posts. Actually, I was trying out this new Facebook thing. Posting to my page at http://www.facebook.com/CarmelLavenderFarm link. Nice, but I think I prefer the free form flow of the blog over the sound bite format of Facebook. Must everything be reduced to a two sentence sound bite? I mean seriously, how can any meaningful dialog happen like that!
Well, I am thankful today my cold is gone. I think this natural therapeutic qualities may be one of the reasons I've sold so much beeswax hand balm this past year. The honey and wax are gentle on the throat, and the balms sooth the hands. I love that you can make something so natural from these three simple locally produced ingredients: olive oil, wax, and lavender.
You can purchase this in my online shop if you wish at http://www.carmellavender.com/shoppe.htm
Today is the last day of my shop local campaign. Enter coupon shoplocalforholidays and get 10% off. Someone asked why the deadline of today? Well I have a new field to prep next year. Any purchases up to today I can plan on for my new field. After that, well, I'll have to wait another year... And so you! ;)
Happy Thanksgiving!
