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Moving Towards a Pit Stop
December is a month of two halves when it comes to the workload at Pyramid Apiaries in Marlborough, explains owner Patrick Dawkins...
Patrick Dawkins
Dec 31, 20233 min read


Kanuka Honey Researcher Answers the Big Questions
In 2020 The Experiment Company (TEC) was founded and set out to better understand the qualities of kanuka honey. Now, they are nearing...
Sri Govindaraju
Dec 1, 20237 min read


RMP Audit Changes Are No Guaranteed Win
After more than four years of campaigning, beekeepers holding RMPs for their honey facilities got a hard-fought-for win recently...
Patrick Dawkins
Dec 1, 20233 min read


Managing the AFB Risk in Second-hand Gear
As New Zealand’s registered beehives reduce from a peak of nearly one million to closer to half of that number, a lot of the beekeeping...
Patrick Dawkins
Dec 1, 20235 min read


Big Burn Off in Canterbury
In October several commercial beekeepers assisted the Management Agency in destroying thousands of hives...
Patrick Dawkins
Dec 1, 20231 min read


Championing Ladies in Apiculture
Having recently published her findings on women in apiculture, Sol Tejada joins us to field a few more questions...
Patrick Dawkins
Dec 1, 20236 min read


Stowers – Drumming up Beekeeper Partnerships
ADVERTORIAL: STOWERS Beekeepers never know exactly when the honey is going to start flowing, or how much will come flowing in. With that...
Patrick Dawkins
Dec 1, 20234 min read


Confessions of an AP2 – Danger and the Military
For approximately 15 years Maggie James was an AP2 hive inspector in Canterbury, mainly conducting exotic surveillance. These are some of...
Maggie James
Dec 1, 20234 min read


Hot Stuff
Varroa is a growing problem for beekeepers the world over says Vatorex founder and CEO Pascal Brunner and so the Swiss company has...
Patrick Dawkins
Dec 1, 20233 min read


Ombudsman Fails to Uphold Beekeeper Complaints
Honeylands Naturally, a Wanaka honey packing business specialising in single servings, has had their protest against MPI's fees denied...
Patrick Dawkins
Dec 1, 20232 min read


Intelligent Apiculture
With ‘Artificial Intelligence’ playing an increasingly prominent role in our lives, we ask our resident science writer Dave Black about...
Dave Black
Dec 1, 20236 min read


Splitting Doubles on the Double
Inside Pyramid Apiaries is a monthly look into operations at the Marlborough beekeeping business of 400 production hives, and 400 mating...
Patrick Dawkins
Dec 1, 20233 min read
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