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So much about beekeeping and honey production is reliant on history...the history of the soil, the history of rainfall, the history of bushfires, and how the people on the land have cared for their patch of earth over time. Each event or non-event in Australia impacts on the flowering of plant species, and the amount, quality and taste of the honey we eventually enjoy. Honey bees weren't even introduced to Australia until 1822. So before that - and for an extraordinarily long period of time - there was a history on this continent created by the 2000+ species of Australian...

Ho! Ho! Ho! Honey! If you're in Port Macquarie these summer holidays, you're in luck! We will have our delicious honey harvests, certified Manuka honey (from the medically-active leptospermum species that are local to the Mid North Coast of NSW), beeswax wraps, beeswax, honeycomb and honey refills available (weather permitting) at: The Town Square Holiday Markets, Port Macquarie . Port Central Real Food Markets (weather permitting), Tuesdays outside The Glasshouse. Have a taste from our different harvests to find your favourite honey. Will it be Yellow Box? Ironbark? Bloodwood? Stringy Bark? Or something else? Have a wonderful December everyone from all of...

So great to see Port Macquarie's own Hastings Hampers 💛 in the Sunday Tele today & all the local businesses supported by the wonderful Prue including ourselves, Ricardoes Tomatoes, Black Market Bagels, The Other Chef Makers & Providores, and Baba Lila Handmade Chocolates. Yum! Some great produce is coming out of the Hastings Port Macquarie and Kempsey areas and getting it all together in one hamper is such a delicious treat!  Our honey on a Black Market Bagel... delish!

Do you add honey to your tea? We sure do. When we're out in the field with the bees on a cold morning (like this morning when this pic was taken), we put the billy on to heat up a cuppa or two and are lucky to have that magic ingredient right on hand - a teaspoon or two of honey - to sweeten the brew. One of the best honeys to sweeten tea is yellow box as it's so delicate so doesn't alter the flavour too much, except to enhance it with it's natural sweetness. NSW has an abundance of yellow box,...