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If you're new to beekeeping, it can be really worthwhile joining your local amateur beekeeping club. We're still learning about bees and honey even after four generations of our beekeeping family, so as a new-bee, you can really benefit from the firsthand information on offer at these clubs. Last week we really enjoyed meeting everyone at the Hastings Valley Amateur Beekeepers Association gathering at Wauchope. There are plenty of clubs around Australia doing great things and it's a great way to learn and enjoy the company of other bee-minded people. You can find a list of amateur beekeeping clubs in NSW thanks...

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....

Be sure you're buying pure beeswax, not fake beeswax made from paraffin The Australian Honey Bee Industry Council’s (AHBIC) April 2021 newsletter offers a great reminder about the importance of knowing where your beeswax comes from. Whether you use beeswax for making your own balms and skin care, or for candles, polishes or beeswax wraps, it’s important to know you are actually working with a renewable, pure, Australian beeswax, not paraffin which is an imported petroleum product. At The Beekeeper, we know where our beeswax comes from because we’re out in the beautiful forests of NSW with the bees most...

Imagine the difference in burning a pure beeswax candle vs a toxic paraffin one? We know which one we'd prefer to be in a room with. Or imagine the difference in using pure beeswax as the basis for your lip balm, compared to putting a chemical cocktail on your lips? Yikes!  Even as beekeepers we are shocked sometimes at what importers and retailers try to get away with when it comes to selling purportedly Australian beeswax and honey, especially as they suck in innocent consumers along the way. First there were the well publicised honey recalls and fines back in...