The Great Australian Road Trip Meets Great Australian Honey
We know you love honey but not everyone can visit us at the Port Central Real Food Markets or The Foreshore Markets in Port Macquarie to enjoy all our different honey harvests including our active Manuka. We also understand that shipping costs can eat into your budget when you need to pay for shippi
Australian Beeswax and Australian Camel Milk Combine for Lip Balm Bliss
As beekeepers, we love knowing how people and companies use our pure Australian beeswax. It’s amazing and gratifying to see where the wax our bees have produced ends up! Working at The BeeKeeper® is always full of surprises when we hear how people are using it! We sell our beeswax at markets in P
Gift idea for Christmas? Australian Honey of course!
What’s a gift for people you can guarantee will not be wasted? Pure Australian honey direct from the NSW bush, that’s what! If you’ve been wondering what to get for the office Christmas Kris Kringle, for family, friends, or even a gift for your child’s teacher, honey –
Nature in a bottle, nature at the beehives
When you talk about outdoor jobs and jobs in nature, being a beekeeper would have to be right up there at the top! As beekeepers we spend a lot of time out in the field working with our bees, checking on their health, making room in the hive for more delicious honey. The Beekeeper® team […]
Where to buy Honey FROM THE BEEKEEPER® – we’ll be at these markets in november
Can you believe it’s nearly Christmas time!?! The perfect time to stock up on our delicious, locally produced honey, honeycomb, creamed honey and medically-rated Manuka honey (harvested locally!). Here are the markets we will be at in the Port Macquarie and Bellingen region this November 2022.
Help! there’s a bee swarm – NSW advice
Have you found a bee swarm in your garden or near a public area that is concerning you or you’d like removed? Though we find bee swarms fascinating to watch (and there’s some amazing research out in New Scientist magazine that ‘bee swarms can generate more electricity per metre tha
Beekeeping blast from the past
Every year we repaint our beehive lids twice: once in time for summer (painted white to reflect the heat), and once just before winter (painted mission brown to absorb heat). The aim is to keep our bees as comfy as possible so they feel good and can produce our medically-active, feel-good Manuka hon
All Hail Australian Honey
There has been some absolutely wild weather on the Mid North Coast of NSW over the last few seasons, from drought to bushfire to floods – and most recently – some hail thrown in for good measure! These pictures were taken while our bees were enjoying dining on some Coastal Blackbutt blos
Creamed Honey is back
Do you remember having creamed honey on toast and creamed honey sandwiches as a kid? What a luxury and a treat! We remember the taste too, and we’ve missed it, that’s why we’ve been bee-sy whipping some of our most delicious honey into a delightful creamy, delicious spread. The pro
Australian Beeswax for Encaustic Art – Works by Marijke Greenway
We know a lot of the beeswax we produce at The Beekeeper® is used in skincare balms, polishes, candles and beeswax food wraps, but this week we also learned that Pearl Beach-based artist Marijke Greenway is now using our beautiful beeswax in her art too. The use of hot beeswax as a painting techniq