Truly pure honey means that when you buy it, it is the same as when it was in the hive. A few beekeepers have been known to put additives in their honey, often water or corn syrup, usually to make it cheaper to produce. A beekeeper with integrity would never put additives in their honey.
There are a few ways honey can be tested to determine if it has additives. The following website contains more info about impure honey and how to perform the tests.
www.wikihow.com/Verify-the-Purity-of-Honey.
February Chores:
This month, the bees are gearing up for the spring honey flow. If their food supply is low, we must continue feeding them. This may be the last month we need to do this.
Some beekeepers medicate their bees because of pests and diseases. For those that do, now is the time. The medication needs time to work and then be removed from the hive 4 weeks prior to the start of the flow. This is so that no medication winds up in the honey. When we began keeping bees, we used medicines for 2 years, but then decided we'd rather fight pests and diseases naturally and eliminated the medications from our hives.
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