Bienenwachskerzen: Die natürliche Alternative
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Go outside and enjoy Autumn!

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Peanut Butter Cake

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Peanut Butter Cake

With the abundance of produce coming from the garden, it's canning season right now. But you can do so much more with your recycled Weck jars. Let's bake cake!     For the Cake: 150g unsalted peanuts 150g butter for the jars 200g natural peanut butter 150g sugar (I use brown) 4 eggs 50ml milk 350g flour (I use spelt) 15g baking powder   For the Icing: 150g whipping cream 100g bitter chocolate   Makes 6 - 7 1/5l Weck Jars   1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius (160 with air circulation). Use a mortar and pestle to chop...

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The Burt's Bee Guy

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"A good day is when no one shows up and you don't have to go anywhere." - says Burt Shavitz, the Burt behind Burt's Bees. You know his picture, the guy with the long beard on the top of the beeswax lip balm tins. Well, he's real. And quite a character. Back when he was just Burt (now 79), he was a celebrated news photographer. Then life took an unexpected turn when he quit his job and moved to the backwoods of Maine. During this time, he discovered his passion for beekeeping and met an ingenious hitchhiker named Roxanne Quimby...

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Hexagonal Trellis

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Hexagonal Trellis

I love to pour through garden magazines, always looking for new inspiration for my yard. You'll understand why I must share my latest find with you, a honeycomb trellis.      What a great idea to bring this shape found in nature into the yard. Create your own design by selecting and combining different available structures. Not only your plant ascends the wall, but the honeycomb trellis also appears to be climbing upwards. Even in Winter when the plants have lost their leaves and color, you'll enjoy looking at this as a piece of artwork.     Comb-ination by designer Arik Levy....

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Soccer and Bees

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Soccer and Bees

What do soccer and bees have to do with one another? I've been watching a lot of soccer lately (along with the rest of the world) and asked myself why the goal nets at the World Cup are hexagon shaped? Have you ever noticed that most nets at your local soccer field are made up of squares and not hexagons?    This hexagon-shaped netting was first used at the 2002 World Cup. In the past, the goal nets had a square-shaped mesh. But bees know best. Bees always choose the hexagon shape when building their honey comb. But why? "It...

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