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🎧 The Buzz About Bees: Our Beekeeper Daryl Talks Varroa, Hive Health & Local Honey on Unearthed There’s more to producing every jar of Australian Manuka honey this year than there was previously and in a recent episode of the AgriFutures podcast Unearthed: The People Changing Australian Agriculture, our beekeeper Daryl shares what it’s been like navigating the arrival of varroa mite in Australia—and what it means for the health of hives and the future of local honey, manuka and beeswax production, as well as pollination. 🟡 Listen to the 27-minute episode: Spotify Apple Podcasts YouTube 🐝 Why This Episode...

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....