D’s B’s LLC

06/02/2026

06/02/2026

As promised, my flavored honey (some flavors) is now available for purchase in the gift shop at Mary Yoder's Amish Kitchen in Middlefield. They decided to carry four of my best selling flavors: Orange, Lemon, Fireball and my Xtreme Hot Honey.

If you are there to enjoy some really good food or their fantastic buffet, don’t forget to pick up some REAL honey with some added natural flavors. You won’t be disappointed.

When I participate in festivals, my success rate with honey sales is about 80-85% when customers taste my samples. Once they taste, they’re sold.

06/01/2026

A single worker bee produces about 16 flakes of beeswax in one day.
Bees secrete these wax scales (about the size of a pinhead) from eight specialized abdominal glands.
It takes a bee roughly 12 hours to produce just 8 flakes.
It takes about 1,000 flakes to make a single gram of wax.
It requires about 500,000 of these tiny flakes to make a single pound of beeswax.
To generate that pound of wax, the colony must consume and convert 6 to 8.5 pounds of honey

05/31/2026

I will soon be submitting my honey for DNA testing. I will post the results when I get them. DNA testing proves the origin of honey. It also tells the beekeeper what plants and trees the bees are foraging on. If you DNA tested most big store bought honey, it would prove that the honey is not only NOT local, but in most cases has hardly any DNA listed from plants and trees. Those giant brands of honey are usually blended with foreign cheap honey that has been ultrafiltered to remove the country of origin. Why? Because if you knew where it was from, you’d avoid it like the plague!

I’m looking forward to sharing with my customers the various plants that my bees forage on. I’m sure there will be some surprises because the “girls” seek out everything they can use.

Looking for REAL honey? www.dsbsllc.com

05/31/2026

Don’t let her life’s work go to waste. Buy your honey from a beekeeper. They’ve spent the time and effort to try to keep the bees as healthy and pest free as possible. Beekeepers don’t make a profit on their honey sales. They just try to offset the costs of maintaining healthy bees.
Get real honey here: www.dsbsllc.com

05/30/2026

Even more good news for local customers! Beginning Monday, Mary Yoders Amish Kitchen in Middlefield will start to carry some of my honey. Beginning with Orange, Lemon, Fireball and Xtreme Hot Honey. It will be in their gift department.

05/30/2026

Good news for my southern Geauga county honey fans. Premiere Meats started carrying a few of my honey selections. Orange, Lemon, and Wildflower flavors. They are located on SR528, 1.6 miles south of SR608 on the west side of the road. They are a local butcher offering locally grown beef. Chicken and pork are also offered along with some of the standard items you’d find in an Amish bulk food store. The store opened in the last few weeks and they are still adding products.

05/28/2026

You want honey? I got it! Stay away from grocery store “HONEY”

Bloomberg: America Can’t Produce Enough Honey

In an article published today (05.26.26), Bloomberg states honey has emerged as a favorite sweetener of the “clean eating” crowd. The surge in demand could turn help around the U.S. bee industry… if it can keep up.

The U.S. now imports the majority of the honey sold on grocery store shelves because domestic honey production keeps falling while demand keeps skyrocketing.

Why the huge demand? Honey is suddenly everywhere. Protein bars. Energy drinks. Skincare products. Craft cocktails. Cough remedies. “Natural” foods. Consumers are ditching processed sugar and reaching for honey instead.

Meanwhile, beekeepers are facing record challenges
• Massive colony losses
• Varroa mites
• Pesticides
• Habitat loss
• Droughts and extreme weather

And here’s the irony: honey bees are working harder than ever pollinating America’s food supply while producing less surplus honey for people. Almonds, apples, blueberries, strawberries, melons, etc. Bees are helping keep grocery stores stocked long before they fill honey jars.

Every healthy hive matters.
Every patch of flowers matters.
Every local beekeeper matters.

Support local honey. The future of our food system depends on pollinators more than most people realize.