2010 Awards

Everyone loves a bit of comfort food to help stave off those wintry chills. And nothing beats coming home to the sweet scent of home baking. For extra delicious aromas in your kitchen, and a rich, homely taste, our Baker’s Honey is just the thing. Baker’s Honey has been around for a long time. Created during the extraction process, this honey is a blend of all our varieties of native New Zealand honey. Not a single drop of our beautiful honey is wasted because at the end of the extraction process we gather any honey that is left from the waxy frames or has dripped into catch trays. This becomes our Bakers Honey. Unlike our other honey (which are all raw and unpasteurized) Baker’s Honey has been heated to separate it from the wax remnants. This makes the hon

We are very proud to be beekeepers and — as you’ve probably worked out by now — we go to great lengths to care for our bees. We have to admit though, our profession can seem a bit comical at times, and many people are not exactly sure what we do. There are quite a few myths relating to beekeepers. Our team decided it would be fun to make a list of some of the quirkier aspects of our job. 1. Bee suits are white for a very good reasonIf you’ve ever wondered why beekeepers’ suits are always white, it’s not just because they are cooler in summer. The bees also react strongly to dark colours and are more likely to become defensive. This is because their natural predators tend to be darker in colour. Although white suits might show the dirt, it is preferable to being ch

If your summer holidays were disrupted by unpredictable weather this year then spare a thought for the bees. Although the season got off to a cracking start, the wind and rain just kept coming back. And that’s not much fun when you’re as small as a bee. Luckily, we have a great team that always manages to deal with sticky situations.From a bee’s point of view, this summer was a tricky one. Not only was there limited  ‘fly time,’ but flowering was a problem too. Unsettled conditions meant that many of our bees’ favourite floral sources didn’t flower at the right time or hardly flowered at all. While Kāmahi is usually an abundant source of nectar, even that harvest was very light this year. Mānuka was also affected by bad weather around Christmas time.