Honey Hill

05/11/2023

Fresh batch just arrived. Limited supplies back in stock.

15/07/2023

20/12/2021

We are back in stock! Get in quick for Christmas!

06/08/2021

06/08/2021

03/08/2021

Our girls have made their trip to Hattah to pollinate some Almonds.
Back in spring ready to get to work!

02/03/2021

We are feeling lucky as we still have honey in stock and more to come off our hives soon however it has been slower than recent years.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2021-03-02/dry-honey-season-sees-apiarists-struggle-to-keep-bees-fed/13202948?utm_source=abc_news_web&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_web

The honey season is more bitter than sweet for Australia's honey producers as cool, dry weather and the ever-present challenge of climate change take a toll.

21/01/2021

1kg tubs of honey back in stock!!!
$15 kg available from our road/home stall!

Get in quickly!

23/10/2020

Collecting swarms

29/09/2020

When honey bees swarm they will find a space the right size to build a new nest.
In this case an old rabbit cage however quite often they move into trees and evict our native animals.
This is why honey bees need to managed correctly and the swarms captured where possible!

20/09/2020

We’ve been busy removing hives from places they shouldn’t bee!

These bees are to transferred to our own apiary to be managed.

25/08/2020

https://www.scu.edu.au/engage/news/latest-news/2020/how-do-bees-make-honey.php?&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=news_2020&utm_content=schouten_curiouskids_bees&utm_term=null

How do bees make honey? Published 21 August 2020 Photo: Worker bees with capped brood (brown), open brood (white larva), all sorts of coloured pollen and shiny fresh nectar. Cooper Schouten, Author provided   Cooper Schouten, Southern Cross University How do bees make honey? Finn, age 7, Sunshine C...

19/08/2020

https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2020-08-02/bees-almond-pollination-coronavirus-borders/12510556

Billions of bees are being transported across the country to perform a critical job and the bulk of the work is happening when most of us are sleeping.

01/08/2020

Dropping the bees off near Hattah for Almond pollination!
An amazing day!!

29/07/2020

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/29/bees-food-crops-shortage-study?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Apple and cherry production hampered by lack of wild bees, who are suffering from a loss of habitat, toxic pesticides and the climate crisis

27/07/2020

https://www.facebook.com/1485185251762708/posts/2714748318806389/?d=n

Weed-killer glyphosate have been found in New Zealand honey, prompting concern for the high-value mānuka industry.

Their first round of testing took place in 2015 and 2016 and saw 300 mostly raw and unprocessed samples gathered from all over the country. They later found 67 of them, or 22.3 per cent, contained small traces of glyphosate and 5 of those, or 1.7 per cent, were over our regulatory limits.

A second test, conducted in 2018 and 2019, found traces in 11 of 60 packaged mānuka honey products available openly for sale.

An unnamed New Zealand producer began an investigation in 2018, when glyphosate was detected in its honey in an overseas retail market, and went on to find honey with glyphosate levels above New Zealand’s regulatory limits.

Their investigation into the detections found residues present in unprocessed honey at levels above the New Zealand default maximum residue limit.

The MPI study expands on this and found the contamination is likely caused by bees visiting flowering plants that have been sprayed with glyphosate. It says there is very little beekeepers can do to limit exposure as the chemical is widely used.

Beekeepers also have little practical means of excluding bees from foraging on plants treated with glyphosate.

It's tainted, and it's not the beekeepers’ fault, it's the fault of a regulatory environment that doesn't control it enough.

If New Zealand wants to be a cheap commodity producer, producing tainted food, then that's New Zealand choice, or we can actually have stronger regulation, which protects our free market.

It’s a headache for big mānuka exporters like who have been selling contaminated honey as a pure product sometimes for more than $200 a jar.

Consumers, we understand, don't want to see any residues in their honey, and neither do we.

Petition

www.change.org/Glyphosate

https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/amp.tvnz.co.nz/news/story/JTJGY29udGVudCUyRnR2bnolMkZvbmVuZXdzJTJGc3RvcnklMkYyMDIwJTJGMDclMkYyNiUyRndlZWQta2lsbGVyLWdseXBob3NhdGUtZm91bmQtaW4tbmV3LXplYWxhbmRzLW1udWthLWhvbmV5

26/07/2020

The lengths (or heights) we will go to save bees! About 3 meters up a wall!

26/07/2020

Removing a beehive from a weatherboard house!

26/07/2020

We will have some nuc hives available for sale this spring.

5 frames of bees, pollen and honey.
A beautiful new queen from our proven stock.
All supplied in an easy to transport corflute hive ready to transfer to your box.

$250

If you are interested please contact us to arrange.

26/07/2020

Ever wondered what a frame of honey looks like inside a hive?

Once the honey is just right the bees cap the cell with a thin layer of wax until they need it!

26/07/2020

Busy Bees!

26/07/2020

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-26/purple-hive-project-aims-to-save-bees/12485018?utm_source=abc_news&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=abc_news

Tech-savvy aerospace engineers have joined forces with a dairy company to save Australia's bees from a deadly mite.