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Anna Featherstone
Queen Bee Breeding, there's always something to learn as a beekeeper

Queen Bee Breeding, there's always something to learn as a beekeeper

Our beekeeping team recently completed a fascinating queen bee breeding course down at Tocal Agricultural College. As professional beekeepers, access to great queens (with important traits such as good hygiene behaviours, temperament and productivity) is vitally important. We work with some fantastic queen bee breeders, but it's also good to have these skills in-house, not just for our own curiosity and knowledge, but so we can manage the process at different times of the year if there are delays and high demand for queens. We need new queens when we are splitting hives and raising nucs (nucleus colonies) and to replace...

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Want to be a professional beekeeper? April/May 2021 - Beekeeper jobs in Port Macquarie Kempsey Region NSW

Want to be a professional beekeeper? April/May 2021 - Beekeeper jobs in Port Macquarie Kempsey Region NSW

Job Vacancy Beekeeper / Apiary Assistant Port Macquarie/Kempsey Region NSW. (LISTED APRIL 28, 2021) **If not an Australian resident, must already be in Australia with working VISA to apply** We’re a 4th generation, professional beekeeping company based near Kempsey & Port Macquarie NSW, travelling across NSW, specialising in delicious Australian honeys such as Yellowbox, Ironbark & Stringy Bark, Certified Manuka, as well as pure beeswax. And right now, we’re ready to expand our bee-loving crew! Do you have a heavy rigid truck license (or willingness & ability to get one), forklift/bobcat license or experience with bees? Are you currently living...

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Anna Featherstone
We'll be at these Port Macquarie Markets in May 2021 with our honey, beeswax and certified manuka honey

We'll be at these Port Macquarie Markets in May 2021 with our honey, beeswax and certified manuka honey

Thanks Port Macquarie for your support of our honey stall at the markets this month (and over many years!), it's so appreciated by our family and team. If you live in Port Macquarie or are visiting Port Macquarie on holidays, there are some great markets and farmers markets on, here are the ones we'll be at in May 2021 (weather permitting). Hope to see you there so you can stock up on plenty of honey, beeswax and our certified Australian manuka, but if not, you can always buy your honey right here in our online store. EVERY TUESDAY Real Food Markets, Port...

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Anna Featherstone
Do you care what packaging your honey comes in?

Do you care what packaging your honey comes in?

We reckon you do! Most honey lovers also really care about bees and the environment, so that's why we ship out our online honey orders using as much recycled and repurposed packaging as we can. Today's honey orders were carefully packaged in a protective layer of recycled packaging thanks to a fabulous, large, emptied box from Who Gives a Crap ... another Australian company doing their best for planet and people.   With drought, fires and floods, It's been a difficult couple of years for bees, beekeepers, forests and wildlife, so we continue to take the extra time involved to package our honey goodness in a way...

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