Swank's Happy Honey

Please Save The Bees

Save The Bees

Helpful guide 🐝

Beautiful Bee Sneakers

Easy Homemade Seasoning Blends!

340.Head down bum up! 😄 bees are some of the hardest working little creatures in your garden 🐝💛

Honey buzzard stealing honey comb with bees in hot pursuit!!
Photo Credit: Wanling Tang, National Geographic

Save our bees🐝

~🐝Welcoming our Buzzy Friends this summer🐝~
1. Plant Native Flowers - Bees are particularly attracted to native plants, which tend to be well-suited to your local climate and require less water and care. Planting a variety of native flowering plants, including sunflowers and zinnias, can provide bees with nectar and pollen.
2. Create a Bee Water Station - Bees need water to survive, but they often drown in traditional birdbaths. To help, you can create a safe watering station by filling a shallow dish or a bird bath with fresh water and placing stones or floating corks in it. This allows bees to land and drink safely.
3. Avoid Pesticides - Pesticides can be harmful to bees, even those labeled as organic or natural. To keep your garden bee-friendly, avoid using chemicals on plants when they are in bloom or opt for bee-safe alternatives. Instead, focus on natural pest control methods and attract beneficial insects that help keep pest populations in check.

Save the bees 🐝🐝

Here we are busy extracting honey. We had an early spring. Fortunately, we did not loose many hives this past winter. We are grateful for the abundance of honey.

We DO have honey for sale:
12 oz bear (1 pound) is $10.00
1 pint is $15.00
1 quart is $30.00

Cash only
We will meet up with you, or you are welcome to stop by.

With a mild winter our bee’s have been out gathering pollen since mid-April. This past week we got into our hives and started pulling the frames. This weekend we have been busy extracting honey. We NOW have honey for sale.
We have not increased our prices this year.
Currently, we have tiny bears (they are very cute) $4.00.
1 pound bears $10.00
1 Pint jar $15.00
1 Quart jar $30.00
If you are interested in honey either send me a message or call 816-352-7384
Cash only.

Send a message to learn more

With a mild winter our bee’s have been out gathering pollen since mid-April. This past week we got into our hives and started pulling the frames. This weekend we have been busy extracting honey. We NOW have honey for sale.

We have not increased our prices this year.
Currently, we have tiny bears (they are very cute) $4.00.
1 pound bears $10.00
1 Pint jar $15.00
1 Quart jar $30.00

If you are interested in honey either send me a message or call 816-352-7384
Cash only.

Send a message to learn more

Art Garden KC
I’ll be here this Sunday! Come see me. Need a gift for the woman in your life? I’ll have what you need. Need a teacher appreciation gift? I’ve got that too!

Our bees are busy!!!

Sarah Thomassie To: Swank's Happy Honey
December 27, 2023

Thank you for the honey!! Wren eats a lot of peanut butter and honey sandwiches! She approves! 

GO Chiefs!

Good afternoon. I just received the following from the Social Security site. IT IS Worth READING. Personally, I find this very disturbing. Do we as a society no longer value our youth?

SOAR Programs and Social Security
January 18, 2024 • By Darla Bardine, Executive Director, National Network 4 Youth

Reading Time: 2 Minutes
Last Updated: January 18, 2024

people holding handsNational Network for Youth (NN4Y) is dedicated to transforming systems so that no young person in America experiences homelessness.

In the United States, roughly 4.2 million young people— one in 10 young adults ages 18 to 25 and one in 30 youth ages 13 to 17— experience homelessness each year. Of those, about 700,000 are unaccompanied minors experiencing homelessness without any family, parent, or guardian. Nationwide surveys indicate that homelessness affects youth living in rural, suburban, and urban communities at similar rates.

Homelessness is often hidden among young adults, and it is difficult to accurately assess the extent of the problem. There are different definitions of homelessness, and many obstacles to contacting unhoused people, particularly unhoused youth. Further, many unhoused young people do not go to shelters, and instead transition between temporary sleeping arrangements with friends or acquaintances.

People experiencing homelessness face challenges that include:

Lack of necessities like food, clothing, transportation, and medical care.
Discontinuation of education due to mobility.
Trauma caused by poverty and instability.
Many young adults experiencing homelessness also have disabilities that create additional challenges for their transition to adulthood. Children experiencing homelessness are up to three times more likely to show emotional and behavioral problems than other children. They’re also four times more likely to experience delayed development and twice as likely to have learning disabilities.

Youth homelessness is a complex issue that intersects with multiple public and private entities. The SOAR (SSI/SSDI, Outreach, Access, and Recovery) program funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) can help. SOAR increases access to Social Security disability benefits for eligible adults and children who:

Are experiencing, or at risk of, homelessness.
Have a severe mental illness, medical impairment, or a co-occurring substance use disorder.
The SOAR program provides a cross-agency approach to solving youth and young adult homelessness. SOAR provides unhoused young adults with faster access to the supportive services needed to maintain housing and stability. To learn more about SOAR, visit our website. For more information about Social Security disability benefits, check out their publication, Disability Benefits. You can also visit Social Security’s webpage, Information for People Helping Others, for ways in which you can assist people experiencing homelessness in your community.

Please share this with friends and family who may need it – and post it on social media.

Our posting of this blog does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation of any non-Social Security organization, author, or webpages.

Fun honey bee fact:
(Taken from American Bee Journal)
A honey bee can fly for up to six miles, and as fast as 15 miles per hour, hence it would have to fly around 90,000 miles -three times around the globe – to make one pound of honey.

Honey is 80% sugars and 20% water.
The queen bee lives for about 2-3 years.
Worker honey bees live for about 4 weeks in the spring or summer but up to 6 months during the winter.
Honey bees fly at up to 15 miles per hour