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We'll have your honey, Manuka and beeswax at these Port Macquarie Markets in December 2021

We'll have your honey, Manuka and beeswax at these Port Macquarie Markets in December 2021

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...

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Honey Hampers & Local NSW Produce Hampers

Honey Hampers & Local NSW Produce Hampers

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!

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Anna Featherstone
What's the best honey to sweeten tea?

What's the best honey to sweeten tea?

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,...

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NSW Regional Lockdown means no market, but you can order honey online for delivery

NSW Regional Lockdown means no market, but you can order honey online for delivery

Some sweet news amongst the Covid stay at home orders...we are now able to offer our local honey for contactless delivery! Within Port Macquarie it's $5 for speedy delivery to your door, or if you're further away we can package your honey up and ship it by Australia Post or courier to Sydney and throughout NSW, QLD, VIC, SA , ACT, NT & TAS...just not to WA or Kangaroo Island. We have some delicious harvests available right now including Yellowbox, Ironbark and Bloodwood - as well as independently tested Active Manuka Honey harvested right here on the Mid North Coast....

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