Buy Local. Buy Fresh. Buy Flavor!

Freshness and flavor are just two of the things that make buying local a pleasant experience of learning and enthusiasm. In fact, when you buy local, such as Beezy Beez Raw Honey, you can get a taste of local flavors fused by the hardest working bees and local pollen that's been cared for throughout growing season. When you visit http://www.newyorkrawhoney.com/  or the Beezy Beez store and Sweetbrook Wholesale Nursery and Garden Center in Staten Island, the raw, unprocessed and all natural honey is available for you to purchase, and comes in many different flavors. Beezy Beez Honey and beeswax is also found in our natural soaps and skincare collection, from pain management, skin creams, and lip balms. At Beezy Beez, you can definitely find what you're looking for, even with our help. Our staff is well trained and team together to give you a welcoming experience inside and outside our store.

The quality and taste of New York's Beezy Beez Raw Honey is unmatched. Sure, while there are many brands such as the honey in the bear shaped jar, there is no other honey like Beezy Beez, since Beezy Beez is one of a kind. With a best seller such as its Wildflower Honey, Beezy Beez Honey has a pure taste that melts in your melt, giving you the signature thickness that honey is known for. Raw honey has a unique flavor that tastes like freshness, without a trace of a flavor that may remind one of eating something sugary. 

There are a lot of ways to enjoy raw honey, including:

-Drizzle it on breakfast, spread it on toast, muffins, croissants, and breads.

-Make a new salad dressing! Adding honey as a salad dressing will make eating vegetables sweeter, and perhaps help you grow into liking new flavors.

-Honey tastes good on cheese! Pair it with brie, aged cheddar, and goat cheese.

-Glaze your holiday ham or turkey.

Small Businesses have Large Impact on Community Growth

Supporting the local economy in Staten Island is another benefit to buying locally. With New York City being a large cultural melting pot, there is a lot to love about each borough, with its own unique flavors. Beezy Beez is homegrown in Staten Island, which is home to many small businesses and startup companies. 

Buying local also reduces environmental damage, and encourages sustainability. Local honey is made from bees that rely on honey making to help their colony survive. As honey making is a survival skill for the worker bee population, it is also their way of giving to the humans who raise the bees. The bees work hard to give us a treat as tasty as Beezy Beez! 

Beezy Beez has a Full Menu and More Than Honey

We do more than just honey at Beezy Beez. We also have a coffee shop and brew lounge where you can come in and enjoy many of our coffees, signature drinks, tea, and products. You can check out the latest in honey, try our Hott Honey (that everyone is loving!), updates to our ever-growing menu, and shop for all of your skincare and dietary needs. You can come on in anytime during the morning, afternoon, and evening hours- because we are now open late! Our store hours at 3755 Victory Boulevard are:

Beezy Beez Honey tastes good on a lot of things- and makes vegetables taste even better! With this easy to prepare "Fruit and a Veggie" Spinach Salad, you can get your greens while enjoying Beezy Beez Raw Local Honey. To maintain a healthy lifestyle , it often takes a lot of commitment and preparation to meal planning. Fruits and vegetables are the energy that keeps humans healthy, and while many vegetables have a bitter taste that several reject, raw and crunchy vegetables can be a great alternative to consuming nutritious food if you just can't stomach the flavor of wet, mushy, cooked greens. This recipe has a lot to offer, and makes a great appetizer, side dish, or even as a main course! 

Eating greens doesn't have to be dreadful, and by finding something you enjoy, it will become easier to adjust to new flavors. Spinach is one of the vegetables I enjoy the most, and while I can only enjoy it cooked if it's tucked into cheesy scrambled eggs (Yes, I put cheese on EVERYTHING!) I really do love raw spinach leaves prepared as a salad, and with raw spinach being a darker and even more healthier substitute for romaine lettuce, its freshness is retained by buying the freshest bag of spinach available at your go-to grocery store or farmer's market, and washing the leaves in water lightly, good enough to clean them from any dirt that may have gotten lost during the harvesting process. Too much water can cause the spinach to lose its crunchy texture, and the crunch is one of the best parts of eating this salad featuring Beezy Beez Raw Local Honey!

There are also many benefits to eating spinach, including Iron, Fiber, Antioxidants, Cancer prevention, and Vitamins K, A, and C.

To make this special salad, you will need:

1 salad bowl

1 bag of spinach, uncooked

1 apple, cut into cubes or small bite size pieces

1 container of almonds (skip this if you have nut allergies)

1 bag of cranberry raisins- also known as "craisins"

1 Jar or Tube of Beezy Beez Honey, which you can buy here or in our store: https://bzbwholesale.com/collections/100-raw-local-honey

2 drops of Balsamic vinegar, to add more flavor if you like dressing.

To prepare your salad, add the bag of raw spinach leaves into a salad bowl. Then, toss leaves using tongs or a large spoon. Once your leaves are placed, cut up an apple into bite size pieces or slices, and mix into the leaves. Add 1 cup of almonds and spread among the leaves and apples, then add craisins and do the same. When each of the main ingredients are in, consider using 2 small drops of Balsamic vinegar if you like salad dressing. Finally, on top of everything, add the Beezy Beez Raw Local Honey on the leaves and apples. You now have a crunchy and nutritious green salad, with fruits and nuts to compliment the flavor of healthy eating. 

Beezy Beez Honey is made unfiltered and unprocessed, raw and refreshing from the hives in Staten Island, New York and the Garden State Parkway area of New Jersey, Beezy Beez Honey has a healthy, farm to table quality that many store bought brands lack. Much similar to spinach, Beezy Beez is rich in antioxidants and vitamins, providing nutrients. For only $16.99, you can buy a 2 Lb bottle of our delicious, 100% raw local honey here https://bzbwholesale.com/collections/100-raw-local-honey/products/2lb-nyc-nj-raw-honey, packed with vitamins and minerals, and flavor- have we mentioned flavor? Beezy Beez Honey has a thick flavor and texture, and comes out of its bottle slowly. Raw Honey is available in Wildflower and Clover flavors, with a tiny hint of floral taste and scent. 

Beezy Beez Raw Local Honey has a talent for making food taste great! http://www.newyorkrawhoney.com/ is the spot for ordering all of our Honey products, including CBD-infused honey and our special skin care essentials such as soap and lip balm. Eating vegetables by adding Beezy Beez will help you enjoy vegetables more often, even when they are not the most appetizing food in the pyramid! I know I enjoyed this healthy salad a lot, and hope you will as well. Food is the greatest source of energy, and we do need to make a lot of healthy choices. Keeping busy this winter will not be a problem when you find new recipes to make on those lazy Saturdays, such as this Spinach Salad! It will keep you healthy, and it will keep you beezy! 

Looking for a New Kind of Honey?

Browsing the grocery store shelves for honey can leave you feeling confused, or puzzled on which brand and ingredients to buy. If you are health conscious or just want to try something new, Beezy Beez has something for you! Our raw, local honey is produced, packaged, and bottled sustainably right here in New York, and has been changing the way people consume honey for quite some time now. 

Who We Are and Why We Stay Beezy

Our story begins in Staten Island, and since our first bottle of honey, the Beezy Beez Honey company has since expanded into a cafe where you can purchase many of our delicious products, and enjoy a selection of brews, teas, and pastries. You could even ask to have your tea or coffee infused with our honey, which adds a sweetness and gives you the opportunity to stay healthy while exploring new foods and flavors. Many of our signature drinks are built from the best beans, the most relaxing teas, and fruit flavors from berries to mangos. You can come in and try our menu's best, such as the Hot Donna, Tropic Like It's Hot, Berry Bossman, and the Strawberries and Cream-influenced Pink Lady! 

Our commitment to making a healthy honey and creating a space that everyone can enjoy is something that really motivates us. We aim to provide a welcoming experience and give everyone the quality they deserve. Our cafe is also part of our store, where many honey products, including CBD-infused, non CBD-infused, and kosher varieties. There is something for everyone at Beezy Beez. We definitely recommend our Original Raw Local Honey, as well as the Hott Honey which is, a hot product for sale! Many customers are raving about this one of a kind mix of sweet and spicy. Try it today by visiting our store online at http://www.newyorkrawhoney.com/, and view our honey for sale! 

Why Beezy Beez is New York's BEST Raw Honey

Beezy Beez Raw Local Honey is the best honey New York has to offer because of its eco-friendly manufacturing and distribution, with the care of the customer always in mind. With a strong focus on quality, you can see that this New York small business has a lot more than just a jar of honey. We make sure each step of the recipe is followed correctly, to ensure an excellent batch is made. Plus with every spoonful, you will help us give back to our community in many ways! We also make appearances at special events, and you can check us out this Saturday, December 7th at the Staten Island Museum's Edible Island Food Fair! Admission is free, and the event will run from 11:00 AM-4:00 PM. To support Beezy Beez Honey and other eateries such as La Tortuga Kitchen and Belli Baci Bakery, this event is where you need to bee! 

There is wide knowledge about the benefits of raw honey such as Beezy Beez, but there are many things you probably do not know about bees, honey, and the work bees do in between the production off honey. These Five Fun Facts will surprise you, as well as make great story time the next time you go out and buy a jar of honey.

1. Honey is a preservative. Yes, while the sweet golden liquid of nature is best known for healing wounds and being a nutritious snack, for many years honey has been used as a preservative to preserve the quality of fruits and other perishable items, keeping them fresh longer without the risk of food spoiling, as fruits and vegetables spoil quickly when not stored correctly.

2. Honey bees understand adapting to survive, and in the winter, the bees form in a cluster, and vibrate n unison to help each other survive. This allows them to form a safe spot for the Queen bee as well as the brood bees. They work together to protect one another from the harsh temperature of the Winter season.

3. Honey comes in a variety of flavors, in a wide range from sweet to spicy to floral to fruity, depending on the type of flowers visited by the bees.

4. Honey has an eternal shelf life because it is hygroscopic, which means it absorbs moisture from surrounding air and retains it, aiding in preservation. Honey can outlast any other item in your pantry!

5. Bees are tiny, but very mighty! With their astonishing ability to travel at maximum, lengthy speeds, bees can travel for longer distances than one might assume. To produce one pound of honey, a colony would have to buzz and fly 55,000 miles!

These fun facts can create important conversations in a variety of settings, whether that be during a trip to the grocery store when buying honey, a coffee date with your best friend, or your group of students during afternoon story time. There is a lot to learn about bees and the things they do, and just how amazing they are at their job of making honey and maintaining a tidy environment. When you buy a jar of honey like Beezy Beez, you get the same liquid as in the store, but only Beezy Beez is raw and unprocessed, made with nature's help and free from the sugars and additives found in many over processed and commercialized brands of honey.

When you choose Beezy Beez, you get the same food product, just made with better ingredients! At our web store http://www.newyorkrawhoney.com/ you can purchase a jar of Beezy Beez, New York's finest Raw Honey, made special to perfection in New York City! You can even come into our storefront on Victory Boulevard to see for yourself how special Beezy Beez is, now with late hours to suit your schedule and our customers! We are open on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays from 7:00 AM-8:00 PM, Mondays and Tuesdays from 7:00 AM-5:00 PM, and Saturdays form 7:00 AM-6:00 PM. Come buzz by whenever you can!

There would not be such a thing as delicious, raw local honey if not for pollination. Pollination is an important and valuable part of a honey bee’s life cycle, and sets the bees on a track to preserving their colony, or home, as well as making enormous contributions to the environment. 

The term pollination refers to the function of pollen among flowers. Pollen is the main source of energy and protein for honey bees, and as the bees transfer pollen from one plant to another, this gives the plants the sources they need to produce the healthiest crops, including fruits, vegetables, and legumes. Bees thrive inside and outside of their hives, especially in areas that are flower-heavy. When the bees swarm across a field of flowers, they collect nectar and pollen, which is beneficial to them developing larvae in the hive, for reproduction of their own species as well as the reproduction of flowers and other plants. 

Flowers are made up of more than just the pretty colored petals we see every spring. On every flower there are: 

sepals (which open and fold back, making an opening for the budding petals) .

Filaments, which are stalk-like structures that support the pollen-producing anthers. 

Pollen grains, which contain genetic material of a male that is transported into the female structures known as stigmas. 

Then, there are ovules (female structure at the base of a plant, that becomes fertilized) and nectaries which produce nectar for animal visitors like bees to collect.

One of the most common flowers for bees to pollinate is the "Bee Balm", which are hot pink in color and bloom in the spring. Others include the  Asters, with daisy-like purple petals, Goldenrods, and the famous Sunflower. 

Bees are known to be foragers, or harvesters and gatherers. Because bees are foragers, they collect food and nutrients for the colony and the flowers they pollinate. The bees' hairy fuzz-like texture helps them attract pollen and finding a space to pollinate. Honey bees, or worker bees, may also take their collected quantities of nectar and pollen back to the hive and pour it into the honeycomb, thus beginning the honey making process.

Pollination is important so that bees can remain alive and healthy, even when humans are afraid of them. Bees bring so much to our world that sometimes, humans forget to consider all of the good things bees bring us. So, before freaking out if one is flying around, let them bee. Without the process of pollination, there would be no way for bees to make raw honey like Beezy Beez Raw Local Honey. Pollination is the job the bees get done, keeping them "beezy" while helping the world around them.  

At Beezy Beez, we make our specialty- New York Raw Honey, an unprocessed and all natural honey that lets nature do all of the talking. By visiting http://www.newyorkrawhoney.com/ you can learn all about how we preserve nature through our craft of honey making. While browsing, please consider buying a jar of our delicious Beezy Beez to try fro yourself and the whole family.