Friendly Farms
A Place to Bee
The Importance of Bees
If Bees Thrive, We Thrive
Bees are a critical factor in life’s ecosystem. Without bees, flowers cannot pollinate. Since pollination stimulates plant reproduction, a lack of bees would result in a dramatic decline in plant life. Our agricultural and food production systems rely on bees, so their demise would be catastrophic for our food supply.
The bee population is at risk due to colony collapse disorder, a condition that is the result of tragic misuse of pesticides, transcontinental disease contamination and deforestation. It will require great effort and determination to ensure that our bee population stays healthy. There are small, fun ways in which everybody can contribute to helping bees and our planet. Whenever possible, buy organic food and avoid the use of pesticides at your own home. Also, consider hosting a beehive on your own property. You can enjoy their company and their honey!
Learn About Friendly Farms
What is Friendly Farms?
Friendly Farms was officially started when I (Huck Jagerson) thought it up in my Portola Valley backyard. I had an idea to sell local honey, raise bee awareness, and support the bee population at the same time. Getting excited, I started putting more and more ideas into this plan, like selling and adopting out hives. Now I'm here, looking back on how far I've come. Please know, 100% of our profits go to supporting more hive production and bee health. We need to support bees in our communities so that our earth can continue to thrive!
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Photo by Ariana Biel, a Friendly Farms member
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Friendly Farms Products and Services
Healing Honey
A Thousand Flights...
Makes Two Tablespoons
Honey is a by-product of flower nectar and the upper aero-digestive tract of the honey bee, which is concentrated through a dehydration process inside the bee hive. Honey has a very complex chemical composition that varies depending on the botanical source. It has been used both as food and medicine since ancient times. Human use of honey is traced to some 8000 years ago as depicted by Stone Age paintings. In addition to important role of natural honey in the traditional medicine, during the past few decades, it was subjected to laboratory and clinical investigations by several research groups and it has found a place in modern medicine. Honey has been reported to have an inhibitory effect on around 60 species of bacteria, some species of fungi and viruses. Antioxidant capacity of honey is important in many disease conditions and is due to a wide range of compounds including phenolics, peptides, organic acids, enzymes, and Maillard reaction products. Honey has also been used in some gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, inflammatory and neoplastic states. (US National Library of Medicine) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3758027/
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There is also extensive documentation that consumption of local honey can successfully suppress allergic reactions to local stimuli.
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