Local raw honey promotes the establishment of urban honey producers, growing urban swarm populations and promoting city pollination.

WHY LOCAL ?

Local honey has specific use for Pollen Related Allergies

If the theory behind honey’s ability to help a person reduce or eliminate pollen allergies is correct, then the honey must contain pollen. Most honey sold in shops has been heated and ultra-filtered. Most honey sold in grocery stores has absolutely no pollen content, so it is reasonable to assume that it would not be helpful as an aid to immune system strengthening. Thus, it is important to find honey that has been minimally filtered. Minimal filtering is needed to remove parts of insect bodies and lumps of wax, but the filtering should not remove any of the pollen.

Further the honey should not be heated beyond normal beehive temperatures. The goal is to preserve all the pollen, enzymes, live yeast, and other nutrients that are found in
raw honey. Thus, it is important to ask about the use of heat and filtration when purchasing honey. Typically, heated and ultra-filtered honey will have a clear golden colour.

OUR SERVICES

Bee Removals

We are happy to facilitate in the removal swarms and they are never destroyed but re-homed in productive hives. Areas that we service include: Blairgowrie, Greenside, Emmerentia, Linden, Parktown, Ferndale, Saxonwold, Forrest Town.

Managing your Apiary

An apiary (also known as a bee yard) is a place where beehives of honey bees are kept.

Pollination Services

We do at times rent our hives for pollination but it’s not really a desired as we cannot use the honey

Education and Advocacy Honey Production

We promote the preservation of pollinators and general education of knowledge of honey bees.

Usually raw, unfiltered honey can only be purchased directly from the bee farm.

Characterised by fine textured crystals, it looks cloudier and contains particles and flecks made of bee pollen, honeycomb bits, propolis, and even broken bee wing fragments. Raw and unfiltered honey and has a high antioxidant level and will usually granulate and crystallize to a thick consistency after a few months. It is usually preferred as a spread on bread and waffles, or dissolved in hot coffee or tea. However, as most consumers are naturally attracted to buying and eating crystal clear and clean honey, unfiltered honey which looks cloudy and unappealing, is often not available on many supermarket shelves.