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Another Amalgamation? NZ Beekeeping and Southern North Island Beekeeping in Talks to Form “National Beekeeping Collective”
2025 is the year to come together it seems, with New Zealand Beekeeping Inc and Southern North Island Beekeeping Group taking steps to...
Patrick Dawkins
Jan 3, 20255 min read


Fire, Flooding and Invasive Pests – Beekeeping Resilience in ‘The Lucky Country’
1400 beehives destroyed by fire, then within a year another 700 to flooding, soon after that small hive beetle wipes out 500 more, then...
Patrick Dawkins
Jan 3, 202510 min read


What is Mānuka Charitable Trust’s Role in the Industry Restructure?
Mānuka Charitable Trust has been called the “national guardian” of mānuka. So, what role have they been playing in industry restructuring...
Patrick Dawkins
Jan 3, 20253 min read


John Berry on Drought
Drought can be soul destroying for both farmers and beekeepers and droughts can be a fairly common occurrence here on the East Coast...
John Berry
Jan 3, 20255 min read


Ken Brown’s “Ministry of Bees”
Educator, club president, and assistant chocolatier ... Ken Brown is immersed in beekeeping, with delicious results...
Chris Northcott
Jan 3, 20255 min read


Expert Honey Tasting Training Served Up
A desire to upskill the next generation of honey experts will see expert honey judge Maureen Conquer offer an “immersive” three-day honey...
Patrick Dawkins
Jan 3, 20252 min read


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 2, 20257 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 2, 20254 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 1, 20254 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 1, 20252 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
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