Buckwheat for bees! 🐝🍯📣
“What can I plant to help the bees and huge honey yield?”
If ever there was a bee friendly crop or bee friendly plant to plant that benefits bees and honey production while being a useful gluten-free food, this is it! 
Powerhouse for honey yield! And Buck wheat is an economic bee culture crop, meaning you can plant it for the benefit of the bees AND it is economically viable for its production too! So, you get $$ from the crop itself! 
You get a better yield from having bees on the crop 
An acre can yield on average 80lbs / 36kg honey!! 
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Bee Friendly Crop Benefits:
Buckwheat honey exhibits antibacterial activity against Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, comparable with manuka honey, and the cellular antioxidant activity of buck wheat honey is higher than that of manuka honey. Our results suggest that buckwheat honey has great nutritional and commercial potentials.
What does buck wheat honey taste like?
The “Guinness of honeys”, Buck wheat honey tastes less sweet than wildflower honey, with an earthy malty aroma and rich toasted toffee, molasses flavour. Its colour can range from medium brown to almost black, with a reddish tinge.
Is it OK to eat buck wheat everyday?
Eating Buck wheat regularly can lower bad cholesterol. According to a 2005 study, Buck wheat trypsin enzyme has antimicrobial, antibacterial effects and could protect against diabetes, hypertension and tumors!
Buck wheat Honey
More fructose than glucose, which means it’s slower to crystallize than lighter varieties. On the bright side, it does contain more iron, magnesium, zinc and copper than most honey varietals. Medium to dark colour.
# Malty taste with slightly nutty flavour.
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