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We love seeing all the creative and beautiful products people create with the beeswax our bees produce at The BeeKeeper®! Wow! Our beeswax is a 100% natural product with many beneficial properties for skin and we were bee-yond delighted to receive this body butter from Northern Tamanu Oils which uses our beeswax as a base. It smells and feels so gorgeous. We have beeswax available from different harvests throughout the year and you can order our beeswax online for delivery within Australia (except not to WA or Kangaroo Island.

It's spring time which means bees often swarm. They do this for a few reasons including because they've run out of room in their hive, their hive isn't doing well, or it's a bumper season and the conditions are great for them to set up a new home and colony. If a bee swarm lands in your yard, on a tree or bush, or sets up on a post near your office or other area don't worry as they will probably move on in a day or so when they find proper shelter and a great new home to set...

Did you know that beeswax from our Mid North Coast-based bees is used exclusively in the production of Australian-made Apiwraps? So cool! Beeswax food wraps are a great alternative to plastic cling wrap. You can use them to wrap sandwiches, cheese, bread, half-eaten fruit and to cover bowls and platters of food with no plastic waste. We now have these beeswax wraps (made with organic cotton) available in our online store and will also have them at the Port Central Markets on Tuesdays and The Foreshore Market. Might make a lovely gift for yourself or for someone you care about....

Job Vacancy Beekeeper / Apiary Assistant  at The BeeKeeper® Port Macquarie/Kempsey Region NSW We're looking for someone to join our great beekeeping team **Must already be in Australia to apply** FULL-TIME / PART-TIME FOR RIGHT APPLICANTS Ongoing work from October/November 2021 We’re a 4th generation, professional beekeeping company based near Kempsey / Port Macquarie & travelling across NSW to give our bees a healthy diet and our customers delicious Australian honey including yellowbox, iron bark & stringy bark, Certified Australian Manuka, as well as pure beeswax. And right now, we’re ready to expand our bee-loving crew! Do you have: Experience with bees...