News 2018

It's Autumn! Time for Pumpkin Spiced Latte Handmade Beeswax Soap, one of Bill's Bees favorites. Liane creates a delicious blend of cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla and real organic pumpkin...enchanced with milk and honey. These lovely soap bars smell and look good enough to eat - but I wouldn't recommend it.Liane personally makes all our handmade beeswax soap bars. She develops her own recipes and uses beeswax and honey produced by our honey bees. She makes soap the old fashioned way, cold process in small 30 bar batches. It's always a mystery to me; I never know what she's going to come up with next. Our Pumpkin...

National Honey Bee Day (formerly National Honey Bee Awareness Day) is an awareness day started by beekeepers in the United States to build community awareness of the bee industry, through education and promotion. According to its organizers, the National Honey Bee Day program started with a simple concept:[1] Bring together beekeepers, bee associations, as well as other interested groups to connect with the communities to advance beekeeping. By working together and harnessing the efforts that so many already accomplish, and [by] using a united effort one day a year, the rewards and message is magnified many times over. We encourage bee associations, individuals, and other groups to get involved. The program is...

 Food 52 blog by Joanne ChangJoanne Chang—owner of Flour Bakery, author of Baking with Less Sugar, and all-around dessert wizard—has discovered that less sugar can often mean more flavor.  Today: This light and airy sticky morning bun is made entirely with honey, which means you'll keep enjoying it even after the first couple bites. The old adage, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" reverberated through my head as I was testing recipes for my latest book, Baking with Less Sugar. Did it really make any sense at all to create a no-sugar version of our famous sticky bun? When Bobby Flay declares your pastry "The Best Thing I Ever Ate"...

NEW HARVEST - Bill's Bees 100% Raw Avocado Honey! Now Available! From April to June we take some of our honey bees to help pollinate avocados in the avocado orchards of Ventura County, CA. The nectar from avocado blossoms makes a dark, rich buttery honey with a subtle taste of avocado. The unique taste can be used in a variety of ways: in your smoothies, delicious on toast, in cooking recipes which call for honey. It can be used as a substitute for sugar or molasses. Use Avocado Honey to create your own homemade facial masks, shampoos and conditioners. With its high levels of...

When you're searching for the ideal wild flowers and  native plants for your garden, visit The Theodore Payne Foundation.  Buzz by their book/gift/seed shop and pick up some of Bill's Bees 100% raw, natural, local honey.  Bill's Bees honey bees forage in the local San Gabriel Mountains and bring back nectar from a variety of wild flowers and native plants to make delicious Buckwheat, Sage Wildflower and Wildflower honeys.  10459 Tuxford Streed, Sun Valley, CA 91352 (818) 768-1802. http://theodorepayne.org/