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Pure Australian Manuka honey for your Autumn niggles & new times for the Real Food Market

Pure Australian Manuka honey for your Autumn niggles & new times for the Real Food Market

A few degrees drop in temperature and it's suddenly just a few weeks until Autumn! That's why the Real Food Markets in Port Macquarie has changed hours to 10am-4pm. If you're a local or lucky to be visiting this lovely area, you can now come down each Tuesday for your honey refills, to try our honey harvests and to buy your manuka honey direct from us, the beekeepers who harvest it.  If you can’t make Tuesdays, you can also find us monthly at Port Macquarie's The Foreshore Market, as well as buy our honey from some fabulous stockists or buy our...

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Australian beeswax great for all sorts of uses...including recycled wine bottle candles!

Australian beeswax great for all sorts of uses...including recycled wine bottle candles!

So fulfilling to see our pure beeswax being used by artisans around Australia to craft and create beautiful beeswax products.  Annika Gollasch of Lillebo Creations is a recycler and upcycler who uses our beeswax to produce stunning recycled wine bottle candles. She even uses the wine bottle lids to make little tealights! At The Beekeeper® our bees produce beautiful wax from a variety of floral sources, and then we humans gently filter it before pouring it in to moulds to set. Beeswax is the most beautiful, natural product, and has it all over soy, palm and synthetic paraffin. The beautiful scent of beeswax alone is...

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Where you can buy some of our great honey in NSW - It's worth travelling for!

Where you can buy some of our great honey in NSW - It's worth travelling for!

We know you love honey but not everyone can visit us at The BeeKeeper® stall at Port Central Real Food Markets or The Foreshore Markets in Port Macquarie to enjoy our entire honey range including our active Manuka. That's why a lot of customers buy honey online from us.  But, in some good news, as of 2024, if you're planning a NSW road tip soon or have family and friends travelling through the regions, you may be able to pick up some of our honey anyway!  And if you're lucky enough to live in any of the regional towns below,...

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What do you get when you blend Australian Beeswax with Australian Camel Milk?

What do you get when you blend Australian Beeswax with Australian Camel Milk?

There are so many wonderful qualities to pure Australian beeswax and manuka honey but we only learned about the benefits of camel milk when Summer Land Camels came to us at The BeeKeeper® for large slabs of our NSW forest-harvested 100% pure beeswax. What did they need beeswax for? For use in their very special Camel Milk Lip Conditioner. A lot of customers love our beeswax for all sorts of uses (beeswax candles, beeswax foodwraps, encaustic painting, traditional copper art, beeswax furniture polish, didgeridoo mouthpiece conditioning and plenty more), but for a while now we've enjoyed knowing our bee's hardwork is also being...

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