Latest News — Beekeeping

Our beekeeping team recently completed a fascinating queen bee breeding course down at Tocal Agricultural College. As professional beekeepers, access to great queens (with important traits such as good hygiene behaviours, temperament and productivity) is vitally important. We work with some fantastic queen bee breeders, but it's also good to have these skills in-house, not just for our own curiosity and knowledge, but so we can manage the process at different times of the year if there are delays and high demand for queens. We need new queens when we are splitting hives and raising nucs (nucleus colonies) and to replace...

Great to announce our very own beekeeper, Daryl Brenton of The Beekeeper’s Honey, is one of six NSW-based beekeepers accepted into a first of its kind action research project for the beekeeping industry aimed at supporting the productivity and sustainability of beekeepers as they adapt in the face of climate change. “It’s come at the right time,” said Brenton, “We’d just come through the fires and now we’ve had these major floods so I’m excited about the potential of collaborating with other beekeepers. The beekeeping industry is generally quite fragmented as it’s unique to location and business structure, so it’ll be...