
A Family of Beekeeping
At Mountain Valley Honey the love of bees is a real family affair. It’s almost as if the fascination with these little creatures is in our genes – passed down through the generations. We love how our family and business lives are interwoven — it’s hard to imagine it being any other way. Our family’s love affair with bees all began when Merv, Murray’s father, discovered a swarm of bees in 1968. Back then Merv was pretty nervous about the whole thing. He dressed himself in what he now calls ‘a suit of armour’ (the feral bees were pretty vicious back then) and managed to get the swarm into an apple box.The bees really captured his heart — he got himself a gentle yellow queen from the North Island to replace the feral queen and never looked