{"id":256,"date":"2013-08-27T19:26:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T19:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/2013\/08\/recipe-for-hummingbird-food.html"},"modified":"2025-06-07T13:16:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T17:16:39","slug":"recipe-for-hummingbird-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/2013\/08\/recipe-for-hummingbird-food.html","title":{"rendered":"Recipe for Hummingbird Food"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This recipe for hummingbird food is easy, and it will save you money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How much do you spend each year on the little powdered mix that makes hummingbird food?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t even want to think about it. \u00a0Since moving to Virginia, I’ve grown to love the colorful little guys and gals who frequent Seven Oaks. They’re so nosy, so intelligent and lively. I love it when they “nag” me when their feeder is empty; they will actually fly to the windows of my office on the second floor of the house, hover for a bit, fly down to the feeder, and return, chattering, when the feeder is empty. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, buying\u00a0hummingbird<\/a>\u00a0food can become<\/span> expensive and inconvenient. It’s the end of the summer, and you’d think that no one around here needs anything summer-related; all of the stores have already turned to fall, with Halloween decorations out and everything! Yet we’ve got at least six more weeks of feeding hummingbirds before they migrate south. I checked both Lowe’s and Wal-Mart for the powdered concentrate this week, and they were completely sold out. \u00a0Lowe’s had the liquid, but it was expensive. I decided instead to make my own hummingbird food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are you ready for the recipe?  Here it is…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Homemade Hummingbird Nectar<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n