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Probiotics – a Gut Feeling
With nothing better to do one morning than read the list of ingredients on my morning ‘yoghurt’ pot, not for the first time I started won...
Dave Black
Jan 27 min read


New Honey Trading Website Launched
Seeing disorder and inefficiency in the process of buying and selling bulk honey in New Zealand, two Wairarapa beekeepers have taken matt...
Patrick Dawkins
Jan 24 min read


Full Circle
If you asked my girls how life was right now, they’d tell you it was pretty sweet... The honey season... Right back where I started ...
Aimz
Jan 14 min read


How Many Can You Name? – The Answer Sheet…
The results are in... Readers of our December content will be aware that we ran a photo from 1976 with the challenge to see who could name
Patrick Dawkins
Jan 12 min read


Mānuka Honey: What Went Wrong? And a Road to Recovery
Mānuka honey pioneer Phil Caskey shares his vision for a better UMF™ brand and a better mānuka honey industry...
Phil Caskey
Dec 2, 202410 min read


A Hot Topic – UMF Honey Standards
A recent survey of UMF™ branded mānuka honey in China and Singapore by UMFHA returned what has been described as “an alarming number of...
Patrick Dawkins
Dec 2, 20243 min read


Learn From Chocolate, So Honey Doesn't Have to Take the Heat
Based on the experience of long hot Tokyo days and nights, Bruce Roscoe outlines the measures traders and distributors can take to protect..
Bruce Roscoe
Dec 2, 20245 min read


Coriolis Report Review
Honey was one of New Zealand's "major success stories" and "can be again", Tim Morris of boutique market research firm Coriolis writes...
Bruce Roscoe
Dec 1, 20246 min read


Year-end Thanks!
Thanks for reading in 2024 and thankyou to our Gold advertisers who make your free source of beekeeping news, views and promotions possible.
Patrick Dawkins
Dec 1, 20241 min read


How Many Can You Name?
Here’s one for the long-time beekeepers of New Zealand – how many of the beekeepers in John Berry’s “class photo” of 1976 can you name?
Patrick Dawkins
Dec 1, 20241 min read


John Berry on Cell Raising
Like most things beekeeping there are innumerable ways of raising cells and one method is not necessarily better than another...
John Berry
Nov 30, 20247 min read


The Language School
It’s a welcome sign to any beekeeper – and, surely, to their bees too – the ‘waggle dance’ that signifies a nectar flow...
Dave Black
Nov 30, 20245 min read
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