What's The Buzz?

For all the news, views, reviews and media on our business, our products and our suppliers, you will find it here on The Buzz! There's always plenty happening around the hive so be sure to check back regularly.

The Buzz on The Honey Pantry

23.04.2011 - CResults Manuka Honey Skin Care Now Available from The Honey Pantry
The Honey Pantry is now a proud stockist of CResults Manuka Honey Skin Care

CResults skin care has been designed with the purities of additives to enhance the results, feel and performance of the products, rich in UMF certified 100% organic, cold pressed Manuka Honey and Manuka Oil, Australian Kakadu Plum (high concentrations of Vitamin C), Macadamia Oil and pure Jojoba oil.

 

25.07.2010 - The Honey Pantry Now Selling "Honey Sticks Beeswax Crayons
The Honey Pantry are excited to announce that“ Honey Sticks Beeswax Crayons” are a new addition to their range of unique and quality honey products. Honey Sticks Beeswax Crayons are handmade in NZ from local beeswax and non-toxic pigments making them safe for your children to use.

 

05.07.2010 - The Honey Pantry Stocks Beauty and the Bees Skin & Body Care
The famous Tasmanian skin care products from Beauty and the Bees are now available from The Honey Pantry. Their incredible handmade, all natural and chemical free products include their famous Real Beer Shampoo Bar, Pet Shampoo Bars, Moisture Creams, Body creams, Baby Bee Botty Butter and Belly Balm. Read this recent article about the company's founder Jill Saunders.

20.04.2010 - The Honey Pantry Introduces Honey Delights™ To Australia – “A Pure Honey Candy”
The Honey Pantry introduces the world’s first 100% pure honey candy to Australians. Honibe Honey Delights™ - are made from 100% pure honey with no sugar added. Read the full Press Release for more details about the only pure honey candy in Australia!

12.04.2010 - The Honey Pantry Wins 2nd Place at Show
We are extremely proud to annouce that The Honey Pantry won 2nd place at The Healthy Food & Lifestyle Show for "Best Exhibit under 12sq metres". Not bad for our first expo!

01.04.2010 - First Australian Expo for The Honey Pantry
The Honey Pantry's official Australian launch will be held at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre at the Healthy Food and Lifestyle Show between 9-11 April. We will launch the range of honey products including the Honibe Honey Drop, Honey Delights and GloryBee HoneyStix.

29.03.2010 - The Honey Pantry Launches GloryBee HoneyStix in Australia
The The Honey Pantry are excited to launch the range of GloryBee HoneyStix to Australians.
HoneyStix are the perfect alternative to other lollies, sweeteners and snacks because they are
straws filled with naturally flavoured honey. Read the full Press Release for more details about these irresistibly tasty HoneyStix.

12.03.2010 - The Honey Pantry Launches Honibe Honey Drop™ in Australia
The Honey Pantry today introduced the world’s first 100% pure, no mess, non sticky honey product: the Honey Drop™ to Australia. The Honey Drop™ is a honey you can hold. Read the full Press Release for more details about this incredible honey product. 

 

The Buzz on Beauty and the Bees 

05.07.2010 - Jill's Products Are The Bee's Knees 
Jill Saunders started Beauty and the Bees in 1993 and has since seen her Tasmanian leatherwood honey products sold around the world. Read why Jill and Beauty and the Bees has Tassie (and the world) buzzing for her products.

The Buzz on GloryBee Foods (HoneyStix)

08.11.2010 - GloryBee Fair Trade Honey (Video)
In May of 2010, GloryBee Foods' founder and president, Dick Turanski, and his son Alan Turanski, Vice President, travelled to Brazil to find a source of fair trade honey to import to the United States. The trip was an important journey on many levels. A documentary film of the trip was produced and released in August of 2010.

19.03.2010 - GloryBee's Annual Bee Weekend (Video)
View this informative video and see why this amazing company has been in business since the mid 1970's. GloryBee Foods is not your "fly by night" honey products manufacturer and supplier. They live and breathe the world of bees and honey, which is why their products are soooo good. This video highlights their Annual Bee Weekend and interviews the company founder Dick Turanski.

21.05.2009 - Hiving Bees in GloryBee's Car Park! (Video)
Founder Dick Turanski hiving a swarm of bees at GloryBee Foods in Eugene, Oregon. This is a great educational video on how to hive bees. Listen carefully to the commentator and you will learn some great facts.

 

The Buzz on Honibe (Honey Drop, Honey Delights)

03.03.2011 - Honibe Now Kosher Certified Through The Orthodox Union 
Island Abbey Foods Ltd, specialty honey manufacturer, announced that they have attained kosher certification through the Orthodox Union (OU). This announcement will allow the innovative honey products produced by Island Abbey Foods Ltd under their Honibe brand to be sold with a new level of accreditation of quality, health, and safety.

26.01.2011 - Honibe Honey Drops CTV Live at 5 Report (Video)
This new report gives you some insight into how Honibe make their fantastic Honey Drops products. A deserved winner of the SIAL d'Or award.

19.01.2011 - Watch how the guys from Homibe pitch their products to the Dragons! (Video)
John Rowe and Justin Rowe ask the Dragons on CBC's Dragon Den for a $1million investment. Do they get what they want? Watch it and find out.

22.12.2010 - Sweetening the Pot: An Interview with John Rowe
Investors, campers and tea-drinking honey lovers everywhere are glad John Rowe found a way to make honey portable.

18.10.2010 - Honibe Honey Drop Wins World’s Best New Food Product for 2010
Honibe Honey Drop has been named as the winner of the Global SIAL d’Or from the world’s
largest food tradeshow in Paris, France. The Global SIAL d’Or is awarded for the best
new food product to come to market in the last two years. The selection was made from a
product field of over 250 of the world’s best new food products.

14.10.2010 - Honey Drops up for International Award
An article on the CBC News Canada website explaining how Honibe Honey Drops are in line to win the top award at the worlds biggest food trade show SIAL DO'r in Paris.

04.08.2010 - Radio Interview with Honey Drop Inventor John Rowe
Listen to this interesting Canadian Radio interview with John Rowe who invented the Honey Drop. Click here to listen now!

18.06.2010 - Island Abbey Foods Set For Operation Expansion
Federal Agriculture Minister, Gerry Ritz, was at Island Abbey Foods' office in Charlottetown on June 18th to announce funding for the expansion of operations and manufacuring facilities for the production of dehydrated honey-based products. See photos here.

25.05.2010 - World's First Honey Sugar Launched by Island Abbey Foods
Island Abbey Foods Ltd. has announced the unveiling of their another world first product - Honibe™ Honey Sugar. Honey Sugar is the world’s first dried granules of honey that are available in 5 gram packets for use in any table top sweetener set at food service establishments that serve tea and coffee.

25.05.2010 - Honibe Honey Sprinkles Launched in Vancouver - World’s First Granular Honey
Honibe introduces Honey Sprinkles™ - the world's first dried honey granules in shaker bottles and bulk jars. Now the joy of cooking with honey has been made easier.Honey Sprinkles™ can be used in baking, desserts, sweetening and more! Honey Sprinkles™ are an ideal substitute for other sugars and refined sweeteners. You have all of the natural honey flavour without the usual honey mess.

17.05.2010 - Honibe Honey Drop wins two SIAL D'Or Awards 2010 at World's Largest Food Show
The Honey Pantry is extremely excited and proud to announce that the Honibe™ Honey Drop™ has been named as world’s best new product 2010 in the “Grocery – Sweet” category at the SIAL d’Or Awards in Paris, France. The Honey Drop™ also won the “Country Award - Canada” as the highest scoring Canadian product for 2010.

14.05.2010 - Honibe Honey Drops named as Finalist in SIAL D'Or Competition 
An international jury of trade journalists from around the world this week selected nine of the most innovative and successful new-product introductions of 2009 from a field of more than 250 products. SIAL is one of the largest and most prestigious food shows in the world and the Honey Drop has been named as one of the nine finalists. We always new how great Honey Drops are and now the world will know! The Honey Pantry congratulates Island Abbey Foods for this wonderful achievement and wishes them good luck for the final.

15.03.2010 - A Better Sugar Cube
Article appearing on farmcentre.com which is an award-winning, trusted management resource for farm business managers and others in the agriculture industry.

16.02.2010 - One Honey of an Idea
News article about the Honey Drop appearing in The Guardian Newspaper.

25.11.2009 - Sweet New Product (Video)
A CBC Canada news report about the Honibe factory and how they have made the first all-honey replacement for the sugar cube.

22.10.2009 - Honey Drop: Top Picks - Grocery Trends on CTV's Canada AM (Video)
Honey Drop named Top Pick by John Scott, president and CEO of Canadian Federation of Independent Grocers.

07.10.2009 - Daily Grommet Review: Honibe Honey Drops - Honey You Can Hold (Video)
Daily Grommet Review about Honey Drops on YouTube!

24.09.2010 - Honibe on CTV's Live At 5 News (Video)
Honibe with Dan Viau on YouTube!

07.08.2009 - Product Taste Test: Honey Drop
Read this product taste test review conducted by Food Vancouver.

15.07.2009 - Honey Drops at the Fancy Food Show
Honibe with Chef Guy Mitchell on YouTube!

01.12.2008 - A Honey You Can Hold!
Who hasn't ended up covered in sticky honey at some stage of their lives from simply opening a jar of the sweet goodness? Well now some industriuos Canadians have invented an ingenious way of drying honey so that it can be handled without the mess. - LifestyleFood.com.au

31.03.2008 - Honibe Solid Honey (Video)
See John Rowe present the wonder of The Honey Drop to The Guardian Newspaper.

13.03.2008 - Honey manufacturer solves the sticky-finger-problem
Island Abbey Foods of Canada has come out with the Honey Drop, a pure, non-sticky honey that you can hold in your hands. The dried Honey Drop, equivalent to a teaspoon of liquid honey, can be held in the hand, dropped in the tea or popped in the mouth.

 

The Buzz on Honey & Bees

Scientists Identify a Secret Ingredient in Honey That Kills Bacteria

12.07.2010 - A new research published in the July 2010 print edition of the FASEB Journal explains for the first time how honey kills bacteria. Specifically, the research shows that bees make a protein that they add to the honey, called defensin-1, which could one day be used to treat burns and skin infections and to develop new drugs that could combat antibiotic-resistant infections. Read more.

 

 First Beehives from Biblical Israel Discovered

09.06.2010 - Recently discovered beehives from ancient Israel 3,000 years ago appear to be the oldest evidence for beekeeping ever found, scientists reported. Archaeologists identified the remains of honeybees including workers, drones, pupae, and larvae — inside about 30 clay cylinders thought to have been used as beehives at the site of Tel Rehov in the Jordan valley in northern Israel. This is the first such discovery from ancient times. Read the full report here.

Bees Make Nests of Colourful Flower Petals

11.05.2010 - Not all bees toil in wax beehives — some live in the lap of luxury, building nests lined with colourful flower petals, a new study finds. The Middle Eastern bee in question, Osmia avoseta, is a solitary species, as nearly 75 percent of the some 20,000 bee species are, meaning that each individual bee lives by itself. Read how they make their nests with flower petals.

Bees See Colour 3 Times Faster Than Humans

31.03.2010 - Bees see colour at about triple the speed that humans do, a new study finds. The findings are the first to measure bumblebee colour vision speed and show how it compares with that of monochromatic vision, or the "black-and-white" vision used to track motion.
Read the full report here.

Caffeine and Nicotine Give Bees A Buzz

16.02.2010 - Like humans, bees enjoy a little caffeine and nicotine, according to a study announced last week. The bees don't get their buzz from coffee and cigarettes, but rather, from nectar that naturally contains these potentially addictive substances — a tool nature may have employed to keep the insects coming back for more. Read more about this incredible find.

Bees Can Learn To Recognise Your Face

04.02.2010 - Bees can learn to recognise human faces, or at least face-like patterns, a new study suggests. Rather than specifically recognising people, these nectar-feeding creatures view us as "strange flowers," the researchers say. And while they might not be able to identify individual humans, they can learn to distinguish features that are arranged to look like faces. Read more about this study.

The Natural Health Benefits Of Honey 

02.02.2010 - Natural honey and its benefits have been around for thousands of years. From the health properties of natural honey to healing properties, this has been one of the most enduring health products of all time. Besides tasting great, natural honey is a source of carbohydrates.
Read the full article here.