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Patrick Dawkins
Jan 310 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 33 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...


John Berry
Jan 35 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...


Chris Northcott
Jan 35 min read
Ken Brown’s “Ministry of Bees”
Educator, club president, and assistant chocolatier ... Ken Brown is immersed in beekeeping, with delicious results...


Patrick Dawkins
Jan 32 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...


Dave Black
Jan 27 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...


Patrick Dawkins
Jan 24 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...


Aimz
Jan 14 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 ...


Ian Fletcher
Jan 14 min read
NZ’s Doom Loop – Does Anyone Care Enough to Change?
I’ve written several times about productivity, which I (as many others) see as the central challenge facing the New Zealand economy...


Patrick Dawkins
Jan 12 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


Phil Caskey
Dec 2, 202410 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...


Patrick Dawkins
Dec 2, 20243 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...
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