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Terri Duval next to her hives.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2022 <\/span>Terri Duval wants to share the benefits of her raw, local honey with you.<\/p>\n

By Breanna Call, <\/i>SVI Media<\/i><\/p>\n

When Terri Duval was a young girl, for breakfast, she didn\u2019t put syrup on her pancakes. Instead, she used honey. That\u2019s because she grew up with a great-grandfather who raised bees. There was no shortage of raw, local honey for young Terri.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

She remembers sitting on her back porch next to a bush full of bees. \u201cI would let them crawl on my hand,\u201d said Terri. \u201cAs long as I held still and was quiet, they\u2019d just walk around . . . and wouldn\u2019t sting me. I never have been afraid of bees.\u201d Terri carried those childhood memories with her, and when she and her husband, Jeff, bought a 27-acre farm in Grover, bees soon became a motif in her life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2014, she bought her first two packages of bees. Now, nearly a decade later, Terri has ten hives on her property. \u201cOnce you\u2019ve raised bees for a few years,\u201d says Terri, \u201cyou start to accumulate quite a bit of wax. I started to think, what can I do with this wax?\u201d She decided to make lip balms and lotion bars. Knowing honey is an antibacterial, she also started making soaps. \u201cI take a goat\u2019s milk soap as a base and then add honey to it,\u201d says Terri. \u201cI have four different flavors: there\u2019s lemon, cinnamon cardamon, poppyseed lavender, and oatmeal.\u201d With these products, My Hive was born in 2018. \u201cIt was created to support my bee habit,\u201d explains Terri. \u201cMy Hive products were originally produced for my personal use, but over time, have gained a regional following.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

One wonderful benefit from Terri\u2019s raw, local honey is that it can build up your immune system to fight off seasonal allergies. \u201cThis may be just an old wives\u2019 tale, but it is accepted by most,\u201d says Terri. How this works is her bees gather pollen from plants in the area, which means the raw honey they create has small amounts of local pollen in it. So, \u201cif you have a teaspoon of raw, local honey a day,\u201d explains Terri, \u201cyou\u2019ll get pollen from everything, and your body will build up a resistance.\u201d The hope is that by exposing yourself to small doses of the pollen throughout the year, when spring does roll around, your body will be more resistant to the pollen, and your allergies will be less severe. Duval says she has seen this work, but she also acknowledges that everyone is different, so it may work better for some than others.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Bees are] fascinating,\u201d says Terri. \u201cAll you have to do is stand outside the hive and observe them as they come and go. Some returning with colored pollen; purple, red, yellow and orange in their pollen pouches and nectar in their honey stomach. Others are doing the \u2018waggle dance,\u2019 which tells her sisters where the pollen and nectar is plentiful. Others guard the entrance from unwelcomed guest. While others remove dead bees from the hive. If you watch long enough, you will learn that every bee has a job, and the colony works together for the betterment of the hive. Bees are such interesting creatures. I\u2019ll be learning from them for a long time to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

To continue to educate herself on beekeeping, this year, she helped in the organization of a new local bee club\u2014High Mountain Pollinators and Bees. Their mission is to educate and help local Beekeepers. \u201cAnyone that is interested can join,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

You can learn more about Terri and her products at myhivellc.com. You can also find her at local craft fairs throughout the year, or, better yet, reach out to her at myhivellc@gmail.com or (307) 248-8056, and she will fill your order. Terri wants everyone to benefit from her products, so she keeps them as inexpensive as possible. \u201cIt\u2019s fun having other people really enjoy what I make,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

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