Latest News — honey for delivery

When we chat about outdoor jobs and those that can immerse you in the beauty of nature, one profession that stands out is what we do every day - being a beekeeper. Picture this: spending your days surrounded by the great outdoors, tending to buzzing companions, and harvesting sweet, golden honey. It's a job - and for some of us, a calling - spent in the heart of nature, one that's as rewarding as it is exciting - with plenty of physical work too. Our bees' well-being is a top priority for us, so we carefully check on their health, ensuring they...

Take a look at the colour of these three different honey harvests we recently bottled after our bees' efforts...what a stunning difference in colour...and taste!  Every honey harvest is different. It will obviously depend on the quality (and diversity of blossoms flowering within 5km of the hives, but it also depends on seasonal conditions and so many other factors. These honeys are single origin harvests, in that our bees were well positioned in forests for a major flowering event of a mostly single species of tree. These honeys are not blended in anyway which means you get to enjoy nature...

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....

If you love a rich, amber honey that’s velvety, smooth and full-bodied, you’ll be excited to hear that this week we’ve been harvesting some delicious Bloodwood honey. Bloodwood trees (Corymbia gummifera) grow upwards of 25 metres and we’re lucky that they grow really well in our own backyard on the Mid North Coast of NSW. We don’t get a harvest every year, but as you can see from the photos, the bees have been bringing in plenty of Bloodwood nectar this season and building plenty of comb too. Once we finish the field work, we’ll be able to start extracting...