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Winter sore throat “tea”- In a jar combine lemon slices, organic honey and sliced ginger. Close jar and put it in the fridge, it will form into a “jelly”. To serve- spoon jelly into mug and pour boiling water over it. Store in fridge 2-3 months.Not winter yet. But I get sore throats a lot and I like home remedies and kitchen witchery.
Make this, and then drink it hot with rum or brandy. Hot rum toddies are lifesavers when I’ve got a cold or flu (as long as it’s not a stomach flu).
Add Thyme for some extra healing!
What people think tarot card readings is like : Getting a whimsical look into the future.
What it’s actually like : Spirits calling you out on your bullshit 24/7
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Beyond stoked that my Neon Moon tarot arrived! 💕🖤💕🖤💕🖤
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how do u actually save bees?
- Plant bee-friendly flowers
- Support your local beekeepers
- Set up bee hotels for solitary bees
- If you see a lethargic bee feed it sugar water
- Spread awareness of the importance off bees
+Don’t eat honey✌🏻
NO.
That will not help save the bees at all. They need the excess honey removed from their hives. That’s the beekeepers entire livelihood.
Seriously refusing to eat honey is one of those well-meaning but ultimately terrible ideas. The bees make way too much honey and need it out in order to thrive (not being funny but that was literally a side effect in Bee Movie). Plus that’s the only way for the beekeepers to make the money they need to keep the bees healthy. Do not stop eating honey because somebody on Tumblr told you too.
excess honey, if not removed, can ferment and poison the bees. even if it doesn’t, it attracts animals and other insects which can hurt the bees or even damage the hive. why vegans think letting bees stew in their own drippings is ‘cruelty-free’ is beyond me. >:[
the fact that we find honey yummy and nutritious is part of why we keep bees, true, but the truth is we mostly keep them to pollinate our crops. the vegetable crops you seem to imagine would still magically sustain us if we stopped cultivating bees.
and when you get right down to it… domestic bees aren’t confined in any way. if they wanted to fly away, they could, and would. they come back to the wood frame hives humans build because those are nice places to nest.
so pretending domestic bees have it worse than wild bees is just the most childish kind of anthropomorphizing.
If anything, man-made hives are MORE suitable for bees to live in because we have mathematically determined their optimal living space and conditions, and can control them better in our hives. We also can treat them for diseases and pests much easier than we could if they were living in, say, a tree.
Tl;dr for all of this: eating honey saves the bees from themselves, and keeping them in man-made hives is good for them.
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Plus, buying honey supports bee owners, which helps them maintain the hives, and if they get more money they can buy more hives, which means more bees!
Buy from a local beekeeper!
Not only are you supporting a small buisness BUT the pollen the bess collect from local flowers goes into the honey. It’s a natural way to boost your immunity against local pollen and help your allergies
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it’s #mermay! here’s my first sketch… my childhood hero, Ariel a.k.a the Little Mermaid :)
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