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Extended Content Labels – Is Your Honey Label Doing All It Can to Stand Out from the Rest?
Kiwi Labels is doing all they can to help honey brands stand out by telling – and thus selling – their stories...
Patrick Dawkins
Nov 30, 20242 min read


Pollination Initiation 2024
It's been a busy month in the Bay of Plenty, but first-season beekeeper Aimz has managed to find a few moments to recap a period where...
Aimz
Nov 30, 20243 min read


ApiNZ and UMF Honey Association Positioning to Merge
A new dawn in New Zealand beekeeper and honey exporter collaboration looks likely in 2025, with industry groups ApiNZ and UMFHA proposing...
Patrick Dawkins
Nov 29, 20244 min read


Southern Beekeepers’ “Nightmare” Weather
This spring, beekeepers in the deep south have been forced to battle through the elements as snow dumps and record September rainfall made..
Patrick Dawkins
Nov 3, 20244 min read


New Zealand Beekeeping Inc Industry Strategy – Competing or Complementary?
Critical of ApiNZ’s Honey Strategy 2024-2030 since its release, fellow industry body NZ Beekeeping Inc are workshopping their own strategy.
Patrick Dawkins
Nov 3, 20245 min read


Talk to the Elephants – and Enlarge the View of the Blinkered Honey Strategies
Though at once a symbol of disunity, the competing strategies of ApiNZ and NZ Beekeeping Inc betray a shared sense of crisis...
Bruce Roscoe
Nov 3, 202411 min read


The Face Behind the Facebook
Curious as to the motivation, remuneration and hours required to be an administrator of Backyard Beekeeping NZ’s Facebook page, we meet admi
Maggie James
Nov 3, 20246 min read


John Berry on Swarming
Swarming is how hives reproduce, it has been an essential part of bees lives for millennia. It is, however, not an essential part of beekeep
John Berry
Nov 3, 20245 min read


A Mite-y Problem
Ahead of an upcoming series on breeding bees for varroa sensitive hygiene (VSH), science writer Dave Black summarises where we've got to...
Dave Black
Nov 3, 20247 min read


NZ Honey Industry "In Deep Crisis for Survival", Comvita Tells Shareholder Meeting
The New Zealand honey industry is in "deep crisis for survival", stabilisation will take "several years", the United States has overtaken...
Bruce Roscoe
Nov 2, 20242 min read


Good Vibes
"Enthusiasm is contagious ... Something is catching, but what exactly?" The buzz of Aimz's new career is rubbing off on others...
Aimz
Nov 2, 20243 min read


A 2024 NZ Colony Loss Survey Update & Reminder
Col Loss Survey author Pike Stahlmann-Brown gives beekeepers who haven’t yet completed the survey this gentle nudge, just weeks out from the
Pike Stahlmann-Brown
Nov 2, 20241 min read
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