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23.01.2022 Raw and natura local honey tasting absolutely phenomenal. Harvest some from my Thiroul hives. Only few jars left. Pickup in Figtree. ... Pm to order. See more

23.01.2022 First extraction of the season. Pulled the frames on a sunny day and didn’t have the time to do it sooner. Beautiful complex flavour of our local honey.

22.01.2022 || Fresh off the press || No more Capilano - Say hello to the fresh faced glitter fish.@savethebeesaustralia @honey_fingers @hinterlandbees @honeyhuntersaus @

21.01.2022 https://facebook.com/events/s/rescuing-a-wild-beehive-with-f/2466810683571829/?ti=icl

21.01.2022 Yes it is. https://www.abc.net.au//is-spoonful-of-honey-bes/11043782

21.01.2022 Extraction day! We’ve got some extra honey. Raw, natural, local! Just phenomenal! Available in 1kilo tubs only. $20 Pm if interested

21.01.2022 Melting beeswax time. This pure beeswax can be used in lipsticks and lip balms, creams, lotions and candles Beeswax provides body and stiffness to formulations and acts as an emulsifier. This beeswax is a BP (pharmaceutical) grade. Available blocks in various sizes.

20.01.2022 --Real Raw Honey Crystallizes. And That's A Good Thing-- LITTLE UNDERSTOOD. The crystallization of honey is little understood by the consuming public. Many ...assume that crystallized honey is adulterated or ‘spoiled.’ This is not so. Real, raw honey crystallizes. The crystallization process is natural and spontaneous. Pure, raw and unheated honey has a natural tendency to crystallize over time with no effect on the honey other than color and texture. What's more, the crystallization of honey actually preserves the flavor and quality characteristics of your honey. Many honey users prefer it in this state as it is easier to spread on bread or toast. Indeed, some raw honey recipes can be easier to make with partially or fully-crystallized honey and, the taste is richer. Some honeys crystallize uniformly; some will be partially crystallized and form two layers, with the crystallized layer on the bottom of the jar and a liquid on top. Honeys also vary in the size of the crystals formed. Some form fine crystals and others large, gritty ones. The more rapid honey crystallizes, the finer the texture will be. And crystallized honey tends to set a lighter/paler color than when liquid. This is due to the fact that glucose sugar tends to separate out in dehydrating crystals form, and that glucose crystals are naturally pure white. Darker honeys retain a brownish appearance. Hungry for more chemistry? Honey is a highly concentrated sugar solution. It contains more than 70% sugars and less than 20% water. This means that the water in honey contains more sugar than it should naturally hold. The overabundance of sugar makes honey unstable. Thus, it is natural for honey to crystallize since it is an over-saturated sugar solution. The two principal sugars in honey are fructose (fruit sugar) and glucose (grape sugar). The content of fructose and glucose in honey varies from one type of honey to the other. Generally, the fructose ranges from 30- 44% and glucose from 25- 40%. The balance of these two major sugars causes the crystallization of honey, and the relative percentage of each determines whether it crystallizes rapidly or slowly. What crystallizes is the glucose, due to its lower solubility. Fructose is more soluble in water than glucose and will remain fluid. When glucose crystallizes, it separates from water and takes the form of tiny crystals. As the crystallization progresses and more glucose crystallizes, those crystals spread throughout the honey. The solution changes to a stable saturated form, and ultimately the honey becomes thick or crystallized. Crystallization of honey is a gift of nature.

20.01.2022 https://mobile.abc.net.au//honey-producers-hand-/11296038

18.01.2022 We have some extra honey. Just harvested. $20 for a kilo. Only 1 kilo jars available.

18.01.2022 This is our last honey harvest for the season. Next one in October. Pm me for orders. Same price as always $20 per kilo (only available in one kilo jars). Priority for those who saved their glass jars from last time (let’s recycle)

18.01.2022 Honey and honeycomb again. Limited amount available. Honey $20 per kilo; honeycomb $15 per a container of 300grams.

17.01.2022 Local Honeycomb available now (this batch is from Thirroul). $90 for a full frame. $50 per kilo (cut and in container), $15 per container of 200grams. Pm if interested. Only few available

16.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/205109083767333/posts/218901035721471/

15.01.2022 If you are boiling when working with bees

15.01.2022 This is a honey bee. The pollen on her legs is from dandelions. Her tongue is sticking out due to what killed her that was on the dandelions. Dandelions are th...e bees first food. This bee is dead from weed killer spread on what we see as weeds, but what nature sees as food. Please don’t spray for weeds until you see the blackberries blooming. In this area, weeds, flowers and fruit trees are bees only source of food until middle of June. There are FAR more weeds than flowers or fruit trees, so it's their only food source. No bees, no food crops for us and we all starve. Thanks Richard Clarke. See more

15.01.2022 Another decent size swarm in Port Kembla

14.01.2022 Happy World Bee Day!Happy World Bee Day!

13.01.2022 https://mobile.abc.net.au//the-beekeepers-ready-/11505370

12.01.2022 Merry Christmas!

12.01.2022 Nucs are ready to go

10.01.2022 It’s about time to paint the boxes. And what a favourable weather it is.

09.01.2022 St. Gobnait Patron Saint of Bees and Beekeepers St. Gobnait appears with a nun’s habit standing on a bee hive surrounded by bees. Saint Gobnait’s Day is Feb 11th is still celebrated by the community of Ballyvourney, in County Cork, Ireland. During a Mass at the well, everyone takes water from it. Gobnait (Gobnet, Gobhnet, Gobnaid, Gobnata, or Gobnatae), was born in County Clare, Ireland, sometime in the 5th or 6th century. Gobnait is Irish for Abigail (Brings Joy). As th...e patron saint of beekeepers, her name also has been anglicized as Deborah, meaning ‘Honey Bee’ One of the miracles attributed to Saint Gobnait was that she protected a parish by unleashing a swarm of bees She had a strong relationship with bees and used the properties of honey in the treatment of illness and healing of wounds. https://honeylove.org/tag/abigail/

05.01.2022 Finally got the time to do extraction. Beautiful bright gold liquid coming out.

04.01.2022 Honey bees are living proof that bigger doesn't necessarily mean better

03.01.2022 Please use this or a similar organic Weedkiller

03.01.2022 Remember all you love and everyone you ever loved. Don’t forget the bees. Merry Christmas https://mobile.abc.net.au//bees-starving-in-sa-a/10665656#

02.01.2022 Today’s swarms

01.01.2022 Some useful information I found shared by a friend. Worth a read That bite of summer has well and truly come early this year and with that heat, comes snakes. ...This article was written by Rob Timmings Rob runs a medical/nursing education business Teaching nurses, doctors and paramedics. It’s well worth the read #ECT4Health 3000 bites are reported annually. 300-500 hospitalisations 2-3 deaths annually. Average time to death is 12 hours. The urban myth that you are bitten in the yard and die before you can walk from your chook pen back to the house is a load of rubbish. While not new, the management of snake bite (like a flood/fire evacuation plan or CPR) should be refreshed each season. Let’s start with a Basic overview. There are five genus of snakes that will harm us (seriously) Browns, Blacks, Adders, Tigers and Taipans. All snake venom is made up of huge proteins (like egg white). When bitten, a snake injects some venom into the meat of your limb (NOT into your blood). This venom can not be absorbed into the blood stream from the bite site. It travels in a fluid transport system in your body called the lymphatic system (not the blood stream). Now this fluid (lymph) is moved differently to blood. Your heart pumps blood around, so even when you are lying dead still, your blood still circulates around the body. Lymph fluid is different. It moves around with physical muscle movement like bending your arm, bending knees, wriggling fingers and toes, walking/exercise etc. Now here is the thing. Lymph fluid becomes blood after these lymph vessels converge to form one of two large vessels (lymphatic trunks)which are connected to veins at the base of the neck. Back to the snake bite site. When bitten, the venom has been injected into this lymph fluid (which makes up the bulk of the water in your tissues). The only way that the venom can get into your blood stream is to be moved from the bite site in the lymphatic vessels. The only way to do this is to physically move the limbs that were bitten. Stay still!!! Venom can’t move if the victim doesn’t move. Stay still!! Remember people are not bitten into their blood stream. In the 1980s a technique called Pressure immobilisation bandaging was developed to further retard venom movement. It completely stops venom /lymph transport toward the blood stream. A firm roll bandage is applied directly over the bite site (don’t wash the area). Technique: Three steps: keep them still Step 1 Apply a bandage over the bite site, to an area about 10cm above and below the bite. Step 2: Then using another elastic roller bandage, apply a firm wrap from Fingers/toes all the way to the armpit/groin. The bandage needs to be firm, but not so tight that it causes fingers or toes to turn purple or white. About the tension of a sprain bandage. Step 3: Splint the limb so the patient can’t walk or bend the limb. Do nots: Do not cut, incise or suck the venom. Do not EVER use a tourniquet Don’t remove the shirt or pants - just bandage over the top of clothing. Remember movement (like wriggling out of a shirt or pants) causes venom movement. DO NOT try to catch, kill or identify the snake!!! This is important. In hospital we NO LONGER NEED to know the type of snake; it doesn’t change treatment. 5 years ago we would do a test on the bite, blood or urine to identify the snake so the correct anti venom can be used. BUT NOW... we don’t do this. Our new Antivenom neutralises the venoms of all the 5 listed snake genus, so it doesn’t matter what snake bit the patient. Read that again- one injection for all snakes! Polyvalent is our one shot wonder, stocked in all hospitals, so most hospitals no longer stock specific Antivenins. Australian snakes tend to have 3 main effects in differing degrees. Bleeding - internally and bruising. Muscles paralysed causing difficulty talking, moving & breathing. Pain In some snakes severe muscle pain in the limb, and days later the bite site can break down forming a nasty wound. Allergy to snakes is rarer than winning lotto twice. Final tips: not all bitten people are envenomated and only those starting to show symptoms above are given antivenom. Did I mention to stay still. ~Rob Timmings Kingston/Robe Health Advisory #vrarescue #snakebite