Latest News — NSW honey

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...

So much about beekeeping and honey production is reliant on history...the history of the soil, the history of rainfall, the history of bushfires, and how the people on the land have cared for their patch of earth over time. Each event or non-event in Australia impacts on the flowering of plant species, and the amount, quality and taste of the honey we eventually enjoy. Honey bees weren't even introduced to Australia until 1822. So before that - and for an extraordinarily long period of time - there was a history on this continent created by the 2000+ species of Australian...

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....

Do you remember the story of the French bees from the town of Ribeauville? Back in 2012 they got stuck into waste shells from coloured M&M’s (yes, the chocolates!) that were being processed at a nearby biogas factory. The bees’ quick sugar fix turned their honey all shades of weird including blue and green, as you can see in the photo from National Geographic here. But the photo you can see with our post here, was taken this week, and is of some stunning coloured, all-natural pollen that our bees have been collecting from ground flora, different weeds and shrubs....