Latest News — yellow box honey

We know you love honey but not everyone can visit us at The BeeKeeper® stall at Port Central Real Food Markets or The Foreshore Markets in Port Macquarie to enjoy our entire honey range including our active Manuka. That's why a lot of customers buy honey online from us.  But, in some good news, as of 2024, if you're planning a NSW road tip soon or have family and friends travelling through the regions, you may be able to pick up some of our honey anyway!  And if you're lucky enough to live in any of the regional towns below,...

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...

Ho! Ho! Ho! Honey! If you're in Port Macquarie these summer holidays, you're in luck! We will have our delicious honey harvests, certified Manuka honey (from the medically-active leptospermum species that are local to the Mid North Coast of NSW), beeswax wraps, beeswax, honeycomb and honey refills available (weather permitting) at: The Town Square Holiday Markets, Port Macquarie . Port Central Real Food Markets (weather permitting), Tuesdays outside The Glasshouse. Have a taste from our different harvests to find your favourite honey. Will it be Yellow Box? Ironbark? Bloodwood? Stringy Bark? Or something else? Have a wonderful December everyone from all of...

Do you add honey to your tea? We sure do. When we're out in the field with the bees on a cold morning (like this morning when this pic was taken), we put the billy on to heat up a cuppa or two and are lucky to have that magic ingredient right on hand - a teaspoon or two of honey - to sweeten the brew. One of the best honeys to sweeten tea is yellow box as it's so delicate so doesn't alter the flavour too much, except to enhance it with it's natural sweetness. NSW has an abundance of yellow box,...