Priddis Honey

🍯✨ Priddis Honey is BACK for Year 7, baby! ✨🍯
Hey friends and honey lovers!
I’m over-the-moon THRILLED to announce we’re setting up again at our favourite spot: 177 Ave W & 192 St W,and next to 22x!
Seventh season strong! Can you believe it?! Seven years of popping up with jars of pure golden sunshine, fresh from our hives to your table. My heart is bursting with gratitude for every single one of you who’s stopped by, chatted bees, and taken home the sweetest local honey around.
Come say hi, grab a jar (or three!), and celebrate summer with us! Whether you need it for toast, tea, baking, or just straight off the spoon (no judgment, we all do it), we’ve got you covered.
See you soon under the big blue Alberta sky! ☀️🐝💛
FreshHoney

🌧️🐝 Why Rain is a Lifesaver for Honeybees!
Next time you hear raindrops, remember: it’s not just good for your garden — it’s essential for the survival of our hardworking honeybees! 🌼
Here’s why bees love a good rain:
💧 Nectar & Flowers
Rain helps plants thrive, triggering more flowers to bloom and boosting nectar production. Without enough rain, flowers dry up and bees struggle to find food for the colony.
🧊 Cooling the Hive
Bees are master architects but they can’t survive extreme heat. When temperatures rise, foragers collect water and spread it inside the hive. They then fan their wings to create evaporative cooling — keeping the queen and brood at the perfect temperature. Rain means easy access to fresh water!
🍯 Feeding the Hive
Bees use water to dilute thick honey stores into a nutritious “bee bread” consistency for the larvae. It’s basically their version of making baby food!
🏗️ Building & Maintaining the Hive
Water helps bees soften and shape beeswax, and it’s also used in creating propolis (their natural “glue” and antibiotic). A steady water source supports a healthy, well-built home.
Rain is nature’s way of supporting the entire ecosystem that keeps our pollinators buzzing. No rain = stressed bees. Too much rain = flooded hives. Balance is everything! 🌍
Next time it pours, say a little thank you to the rain for helping our bees do what they do best. 🐝💛
Beekeeping EcoFriendly

🌿🐝 Nature’s Hidden Mathematics 🐝🌿

Have you ever noticed that some of nature’s most beautiful patterns seem to repeat themselves?

The Fibonacci sequence (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13…) appears throughout the natural world. Each number is the sum of the two before it, creating growth patterns that help plants efficiently capture sunlight, water, and space.

🌸 Native plants like Virginia Strawberry, Hookedspur Violet, and Western Stoneseed provide essential nectar and pollen for native pollinators and honeybees. Their flowers often display petal arrangements and growth patterns influenced by the same mathematical principles found throughout nature.

🐝 Honeybees bring another remarkable geometry lesson. Inside the hive, bees build honeycomb from repeating hexagons. While hexagons aren’t directly Fibonacci numbers, they represent one of nature’s most efficient shapes—storing the greatest amount of honey while using the least amount of wax.

✨ From the spiral arrangement of leaves and flowers to the hexagonal architecture of a beehive, nature continuously balances beauty, efficiency, and survival through patterns that mathematicians have spent centuries studying.

The next time you see a wild strawberry bloom, a violet tucked along a trail, or bees working a patch of native flowers, you’re witnessing mathematics in action.