Bee Products being Added

It’s been a while since I have posted on the web – so much as changed for me and I really appreciate the patience of all the customers that have been so patient.  I spent some time in Colorado this summer working with friends and family on several projects – one of them is beekeeping.  When I originally started Botanical Earth, I used beeswax and offered honey scrubs, soaps and balms all using beeswax.  As my clientele became more focused, many asked for vegan only products which I accommodated.  While I tend to be a raw foodist (people do so like to put a category on things) I also love honeys and certain milks if harvested correctly and compassionately.  It was easier to make Botanical Earth just vegan but recently I have been unhappy with my sources of candelilla wax and several other vegan sub ingredients, so am going to tell you about my honey fetish!

My mother (pictured below) is a beekeeper in Franktown Colorado and is my supplier for fresh, ethically harvested beeswax and honey for my products.  Starting in the spring of 2011, I’ll join the beekeeping trend in my family.  My step-father’s family from Switzerland who I grew up with were beekeepers so I have grown up eating all sorts of tasty treats with home harvested honey.  Yes BE peeps, I love honey mead, honey cakes and honey in any form and I also love bees.  I love when you can feel their little suckers tap away for the sugar on your hands – I have no fear of these little friends that are so vital to our food source.  I was going to have my hives brought from Colorado this week as my mother had some she wanted me to take over but the State of Missouri requires permits and inspections, and it’s not the time of year to open up hives and have to checked….so come spring, I’ll have “the girls” with me here in Missouri.  Did you know the bees you see flying around are all girls?

Well, just wanted everyone to know that our product line will be increasing, and the lip balms are going to contain beeswax from now on.  For all my vegan customers, know that I love my partners in pollination and treat them with the utmost in care and respect.  I, nor any member of my family, have EVER feed our bees High Fructose Corn Syrup as an over wintering food!  Can you believe beekeepers do that??  It’s cheap and easy.  I love my little bee friends and will not feed them petroleum process syrup ever – hey, there’s a reason I make sugar scrubs with Turbinado Sugar!  My mom loves to come and pick up 50 lb bags to feed her bees.  Natural sugar, natural bees, natural products.

Happy Fall everyone!