Bee Fayre
We are a company dedicated to the protection, care and and ultimate survival of the western honeybee (Apis mellifera)
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What’s the buzz with bee pollen?
As the bees collect nectar from the flowers, they also gather pollen by rubbing inside the bloom.Our pollen is sourced from the wilds of Transylvania, gathered by the bees from flowers in the forests and glades, well away from the influence of pesticides or pollutants.
It is dried immediately after collection, and is not heated or treated in anyway, so as to preserve as many nutrients and enzymes as possible.
In very rare occurrances, some people may be allergic to bee pollen. If you have never used bee pollen before, you can put a tiny pinch on your tongue to see if you have a reaction. However bee pollen has also been used to successfully treat allergies.
Honeybees have been fine tuned through evolution to only exert time and energy into collecting the most nutritious, high quality pollens.
Pollen is one of the most complete, nutrient dense foods found in nature,
containing;
• almost all known vitamins and minerals.
• all essential amino acids, with 50% more available protein than beef for muscle building.
• essential fatty acids, carbohydrates, and many different beneficial enzymes and antioxidants.
All these nutrients are in a form that are highly bioavailable and absorbable to your system, far superior to multivitamin tablets.
Throughout history, bee pollen has been used as a food. The Chinese, Egyptians, Romans, Aztecs and the Anglo-Saxons, among many others, regarded bee pollen to be very beneficial to health. The Egyptians called it “life giving dust.”
For a few hours each day (so as not to stress the bees) during early summer, our beekeepers fit pollen traps to the entrance of a productive hive and some of the pollen brushes off as the bees. enter the hive, and is caught in the pollen trap. The pollen bags can be seen on the back legs of the bee.
Honey bees entering the hive through the pollen collector
The Pollen baskets can be clearly seen on the backlegs of the bee..
Our pollen magnified a thousand times.