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We know a lot of the beeswax we produce at The BeeKeeper® is used in skincare balms, polishes, candles and beeswax food wraps, but this week we also learned that Pearl Beach-based artist Marijke Greenway is now using our beautiful beeswax in her art too. The use of hot beeswax as a painting technique is known as ‘encaustic’. It requires the melting of beeswax (which smells wonderful!), mixing of pigments and application while still hot. The beeswax can be layered and while still warm can be shaped to add texture. According to Marijke, “Encaustic comes from the Greek (enkaustikos) which means...

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...

PICTURE: Our latest harvest of pure Australian beeswax poured into 10kg moulds and cooling down. It's not a great state of affairs when a product that may not even be beeswax, formulated in China, can arrive in Australia and be packaged and sold with an Australian flag on it and called 'Beeswax'. Sounds crazy right? But that's exactly what's happening. The latest Australian Honey Bee Industry Council (AHBIC) newsletter discusses the fact that Australian beekeepers have been asking the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to stop these imports of adulterated or contaminated beeswax into Australia, or at least to set...