Our team is still reeling from the excitement of another successful exhibition at Natural Products Expo East in Baltimore, Maryland this past week. Though inquisitive exhibit-goers kept us busy behind our booth, we made sure to sneak away and do a few loops around the exhibit floor to check out the latest trends in the natural products market. From cashew nut cheeses and coffee-flavored Kombucha to compostable coffee pods and chocolate protein cake batter, we were inundated with Non-GMO, organic goodness at every turn.
As the Weather Cools, the Hive Heats Up
Honeybees, in their constant drive to protect the hive, spend all spring and summer preparing food stores to survive on during the cool winter months. When temperatures drop in late fall, these worker bees return back to the hive from their foraging to form a ‘winter cluster’, a tightly knit huddle formed specifically to protect the queen from the brutally cold temperatures that would otherwise kill her and the rest of her hive. Incredibly, these intrepid workers have devised a brilliant system to maintain their environment at an almost tropical temperature, all winter long.
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