With Rod the Beeman we’ve spent weeks in the field and the editing suite putting together a DVD so anyone interested in beekeeping can learn the basics…from how to light a smoker, to how to find the queen, to how to open a hive and extract honey. There is a section on building your own hive and [...]
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We’re very excited to announce that Honeycomb Valley (3 hours north of Sydney) is now able to offer breadmaking courses from a master breadmaker! One day, two day or three day courses are on offer, so get a small group of friends together or come yourself to learn the art of the dough! And if you do our [...] A survey is being done via the University of Western Sydney to try and determine the number of people keeping Australian native bees. If you have native bees and would like to take part go to this survey site www.beesbusiness.com.au. Our little native bees were out in force today, so great to see them after so much cold [...] As a beekeeper – eventhough one who is doing it pretty easy in comparison in a country so far untouched (cross fingers and touch timber) by varroa mite and colony collapse disorder (ccd) – it’s always so interesting to read the latest research about what’s happening in the land of the honeybees. The latest story out is [...] At the Taree Envirofair yesterday where we had a stall selling our goat’s milk soaps and lip balms, and selling Sun Baked cookies from our Sun Ovens, I had one of those magic moments. Our kids always find something to amuse themselves with at the markets, whether it be a fellow stallholder’s puppy, other kids to play football [...] Yay! Living on the farm I get lots of fun, useful and intriguing birthday presents, over the years my prezzies have included a scythe (hilarious but useful and the workout saves on gym fees while giving the chickens and rabbits fresh-cut fodder!), carob trees (the drought-tolerant trees you plant so your grandchildren won’t go hungry), my first [...] Just home from a wonderful two days at “Merriwonga”, the property owned by Mareah and Robert Rhodes-White at Wootton on the mid-north coast of NSW. “Merriwonga” was opened to the public as part of Australia’s Open Garden Scheme, a self-funding, not for profit organisation dedicated to promoting the knowledge and pleasure of gardening. It’s a beautiful [...] Like the slow food movement, there’s also a return to more natural, less toxic beauty products…and that’s a great thing! Take lip balms for example, we know a lot of people who get super dry lips and put on vaseline, petroleum byproducts and other synthetic lip balms. Take a look at the ingredients in your lip balm, if [...] Yay! Our beautiful bees have won first prize for honey at the 2010 Wallamba District Show. The judge awarded joint first place to our jars of January and February honey, as well as a first place to our candied honey. Okay…so there was no competition (literally as we had the only three entries! )…but…the great news [...] What an amazing couple of weeks we’ve enjoyed. We’ve handspun more honey, hosted another beekeeping course, collected and filtered our beeswax in the solar cooker and blended our raw honey and beeswax into a natural range of non-toxic lip balms…and then we sold them at farmers’ markets to a great response as people enjoyed the natural flavour and texture [...] |
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