Honey & Beeswax Products
In August 2017 we made the decision to get two bee hives to help pollinate our pumpkin patch. In 2015 the pumpkin patch produced over 2 tonne of pumpkin but the following two years we were lucky to get 200-300kgs. Something was missing. We came to the conclusion it was the BEES
After being approached by a local Apiarist who wanted to put some hives on our local Sugar cane farm our interest soon quickly grew and as I said in August we got our first two Nucs (or nucleus colonies). As we learnt and experienced more and more about the bees we became hooked.
It wasn’t long before we were extracting our first batch of Honey. 27kgs If I remember correctly. We bottled it and put it in our roadside stall down the front of our property in Teven, NSW and it all sold within 2 weeks. That was it we had a taste for it now.
We started our Bee journey saying we will only get 2 hives, September 2018 we bought 4 new Nucs to bring our Apiary to 11 hives. At the beginning of January 2022 we were just short of 100 hives. Then the floods hit in February. Unfortunately we lost 20 full hives with Supers.
As 2022 goes on we are rebuilding our hive.
June 2022 Verroa Mites were discovered in sentinel Hives in Australia. Luckily our area in the Northern Rivers of Australia have not yet been affected by the mite (Its August at the time of writing this) so our bees are very happy and healthy.
Sustainability is really important to us, nothing goes to waste when we extract our Honey. We bottle the honey. The wax gathered during the extraction process is melted down and strained several times until we get a pure batch of Beeswax. The beeswax is then used in a variety of ways to create our unique and beautiful Beeswax Products.
Wax Melts for fragrancing your home or office, Wood polish, Leather polish, Surf balm, Candles, Beeswax wraps with more products being created all the time.
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