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The Ark of Taste is an online catalogue of foods at risk of disappearing that are a part of cultures and traditions of the entire world. Plant and animal species are to be found onboard the Ark, but also processed products, because, together with plant and animal biodiversity, cheeses, cured meats, breads and sweets, expressions […]

Many flowers cannot produce seeds unless pollen is carried from the male part of a flower to the female part. This process is called pollination. More than 80% of all pollination occurs by insects, including beetles, moth’s and flies but the Honeybee is the leader because they spend most of their life collecting pollen, as […]

Since the beginning of Alchemy, Alchemists have used symbols to represent different elements. Alchemy symbols sometimes contain hints of the qualities the elements were thought to have, as well as the history of the element. Using symbols helped Alchemists keep their work private, as much of it was a carefully guarded secret from non-alchemists who […]

The foraging worker bee collects nectar from the flower, stores it in their abdomen and flies back to the hive where they pass it on to the “hive bees”. When combined with their saliva the hive bee uses their honey stomachs to break down the structure of the sugar content in honey before they regurgitate […]

Founder, Julian Wolfhagen – After more than 40 years in the industry, he’s still passionate about producing honey.“Every culture holds honey in a very reverential place and that’s because of the health that it brings,” Wolfhagen tells SBS Food. “It’s high in antioxidants, it has a low GI, which makes it quite suitable for certain […]

Honey bees, like ants, termites and some wasps are social insects. Unlike ants and wasps, bees are vegetarians; their protein comes from pollen and their carbohydrate comes from honey which they make from nectar. Honey Bees make combs of waxen cells placed side by side that provide spaces to rear young and to store honey. […]

LEPTOSPERMUM SCOPARIUM Manuka honey in Australia is derived from the Leptospermum Scoparium, also known as the Teatree. The Leptospermum species is comprised of 86 recognised subspecies, of which only two are found outside of Australia. One, Leptospermum recurvum is found in Sabah, Malaysia, and Sulawesi, Indonesia. The other is the Leptospermum scoparium which is found […]