Latest News — Manuka honey Australia

If you'd like to buy honey including some delicious local ironbark honey, local manuka honey (from 5+ to 15+ highly medically active manuka) and beautiful pure Australian beeswax created by our bees, we'll be at the following markets in Port Macquarie NSW in April. There have been a few date changes as the wonderful organisers of The Foreshore Market unfortunately came down with covid so the normal Foreshore Market has been postponed until Saturday 16th April. You can find us in April at: Every Tuesday - Port Central Real Food Market Thu 14th April - Town Green Market Sat 16th...

There's nothing like the scent of warm beeswax and we've been surrounded by it today as we collected and lightly filtered the beeswax from our latest harvest of Manuka (also known in Australia as leptospermum and/or jellybush beeswax). This picture shows the Manuka beeswax as it slowly cools back to room temperature in 10kg molds. Manuka beeswax is not as yellow as other beeswax harvests and when it hardens has a colour that is more pale olive than bright yellow. We keep our Manuka wax separate from the other beeswax harvests as it's a limited and specialty natural product that...

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....

The best time to moves bees is at night. We do this to ensure all the worker bees are home as we don't want to leave any bees behind. They also settle in for the night as we travel, and by the time the sun comes we've unloaded them and they're ready to fly and start discovering new nectar and pollen sources. The nectar and pollen sources they're enjoying right now are those of the marvellous Manuka plant. Also known as Leptospermum, and by us beekeepers as Jellybush, there are wonderful pockets of Manuka in the bush along parts of the Australian...