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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...

A big shout out and thumbs to all the wonderful local retailers who stock our honey . Thank you. As of 2022 (check more recent posts for current) in addition to the Port Central Market (Tuesdays) and the Foreshore Market, you can find The Beekeeper® honey and our ranges including Honey & Earth™ and Bees & Us™ honey at these great local businesses: PORT MACQUARIE Hanks Growers Market Hill St Store Owen St Store Quality Discount Vitamins, Port Macquarie Cassegrain Wines Lighthouse Meat & Poultry, Lighthouse Beach WAUCHOPE Timbertown Winery SANCROX The Davis Farm BAGO Bago Maze TELEGRAPH POINT Telegraph...

Mountain Lotus have been a long-time supporter of our bees and us and it was wonderful to receive a sample of their gorgeous skin care products which have as their base, beeswax from our bees. Beeswax is a fantastic natural product and so much better for you and the environment than petroleum-based skincare. These beeswax balms look, feel and smell amazing. Thanks Lyn and team! Each beeswax harvest our bees bring in is slightly different in colour and aroma, from the olive colour of Manuka wax from leptospermum plants to the yellow of yellowbox and the orange-yellow when our bees...

There's nothing like the scent of warm beeswax and we've been surrounded by it today as we collected and lightly filtered the beeswax from our latest harvest of Manuka (also known in Australia as leptospermum and/or jellybush beeswax). This picture shows the Manuka beeswax as it slowly cools back to room temperature in 10kg molds. Manuka beeswax is not as yellow as other beeswax harvests and when it hardens has a colour that is more pale olive than bright yellow. We keep our Manuka wax separate from the other beeswax harvests as it's a limited and specialty natural product that...