Local beekeepers in Fairborn are working to combat the decline in honey bee populations, which is crucial for maintaining ...

OMAHA, Neb. — September is National Honey Month and local honey producers, It's All About Bees, joined KETV Newswatch 7 at noon to talk about how to celebrate.

All of the honey produced by Bee Great comes from about 70 hives placed at local homes.

It has been a great spring to be a honey bee. For two months it seemed like the whole world was blooming. Cleveland pear trees, red buds, forsythia, tulips, crocus, daffodils, dogwood, hyacinth ...

And that means the honey from local bees will have more of a local flavor. "It has all the pollen from everywhere around the neighborhood,” said Kennedy.

The yellow cart that sells local raw honey is easy to spot as you are about to leave Cuyahoga County and head into North Ridgeville. Beekeeping is a Barnett family activity.

But the Texas Beekeepers Association identifies as "raw" honey heated to no more than 120 F, theoretically the highest temperature bees encounter inside a hive.

Honey has even made it to the international space station because of its long-lasting shelf-life! Nearly every local beekeeper has a story and a narrative.

La Casse is making honey straight from these local bees, tending their hives and extracting the sweet by-product to bottle and sell to Tampa Bay marketgoers.