Best side hussle ever!
Hanging out with good mates promoting our award winning Waiheke Whisky
#cyclonegabrielle survivors. All good in our apiary, hope all is good with you too
Waiheke Honey Company
Hanging in there!
Pleased to have a break in the horrendous weather to get to the Ostend Markets and see your smiling faces
Our ute is in town being serviced so traveling in style today in the Waiheke Whisky classic ute to Ostend Markets. Check out this beauty, driver and vehicle are similar vintages :-)
Today's market surprise was featuring in this delightful children's book. Love that Sally's illustration makes me look like a teenager 😍
Felt a bit mean cutting Echiums for the house when the bees enjoy them so much. Ideal easy care plants for Waiheke, in fact this one accidentally grew in the vegetable garden.
Hope you are all enjoying the winter sunshine as much as these bees in Manuka
Here is the next part of our hot and sticky honey harvest series. Covering centrifugal spinning honey from frames to crystallizing/creaming.
Hi Honey fans
sorry we didn't make the markets today, we are in the honey house harvesting. Here's part of the process
If you are looking to escape today's high humidity, you could try inside our honey house, the catch is the high temperature. Honey extraction is done in the same conditions as inside a hive, 18% humidity and 35C. Lovely if you are a bee!
Beautiful morning, happy worker bees doing their thing
Even beekeepers do online shopping, look what the courier just delivered
Another day, another swarm. This one landed nice and low in a plum tree. Queen located by hand while neighbourhood entertained with the roadside swarm capture show.
Bees loving these Echiums. They are super easy to grow and perfect for Waiheke's dry summers
Today we are busy making plums
No lockdown for bees. Sun is out, bees are out!
This hive is frantically bringing in pollen and hopefully some nectar to start making this seasons honey.
The harvest is done. Now it's time to breed new Queens and for that you need drone bees. Take a look at these big boys flying off looking for a Queen.
