Chiltern Honey Farm in Chiltern, Victoria | Agriculture

Chiltern Honey Farm

Locality: Chiltern, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 5726 1286

Address: 76-78 Conness St 3683 Chiltern, VIC, Australia

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25.01.2022 Hi Honey Lovers. As you may be aware with the drought and fires honey has become much harder to produce and is in short supply. Accordingly the price of honey has increased. Prices at our door are as follows: 500g jar $7 1kg bucket $14 1.5 kg buckets $20 3 kg buckets $35 and 15 kg buckets $150 thank you for your continued support.

20.01.2022 Honey, it's cold outside! Best to stay indoors and cook up a storm... What about some ricotta honey pancakes? Yes please! Download our pancake recipe here...: https://bit.ly/2YfWWXy In our home, we pair the distinctive caramel notes of BeeCause Coastal Honey with our can't-stop-at-one homemade pancakes. #honeywarmers with Beechworth Honey

20.01.2022 Spring is coming and you will start to see these ladies buzzing about collecting pollen and nectar

15.01.2022 Ex honey drums for sale. 44 gal / 200 litre. Bung top and side $ 10 each. Please note these drums do not have removable lids. They have bungs only.

15.01.2022 Hellooooo beautiful people and welcome to yet again the virtual end of another week where are they going????? Tomorrow morning you will find our very sought a...fter HOT X BUNS at The Publicans Daughter Cafe Yarrawonga & The Rutherglen Provedore- Rutherglen They will fly out the door so be sure to get in early. I will post the time of arrival so you will all know when to head into stores This Sunday we can be found at the Corowa Federation Market loaded with all our goodies including pastries and HOT X BUNS. Look forward to seeing you all and have a fab weekend. Stay safe, much love to all See more

14.01.2022 What to grow in your garden

13.01.2022 self care people's!

13.01.2022 We are there every market

12.01.2022 Farm gate sales still available. Unfortunately the farmers markets we attend, Corowa and Rutherglen will not be going ahead. We can no longer offer tastings at the front door and ask that you only touch the honey container you are going to buy. Thank you for your continued support and enjoy your honey Cheers folks

11.01.2022 We get so excited when our customers leave us 'love notes'

06.01.2022 KILLING BEES IN A WALL WITH PESTICIDES I regularly hear of people calling pest controllers to "remove" bees that have moved into their house walls. The pest co...ntroller will charge $200-400 and will spray or dust pesticide into the wall and the bees will die. Job done. Well.....the bees have gone, but will they come back? Firstly, home owners need to understand that the reason that the bees are their walls is that they have a entry hole allowing the bees in. No entry point...no bees can get in. Pest controllers will not fill the holes, so another swarm can easily move in later in the season or the following season, cha ching. Once bees are killed in a wall, they leave trace smells that are highly attractive to other scout bees from future swarms. This cavity becomes a high risk target for future bee swarms. When a pest controller kills the bees in a wall, is the the end of the matter? Well, no. Firstly there is up to 60,000 dead bees and all of their comb and babies that are left in the wall to contend with. If this is left in the wall, it will slowly decay and give off a putrid smell for weeks. This smell will enter the house. Secondly, there is the residual honey, which can be up to 50kg in a mature hive. On the first hot day, if it is still in the wall, the wax comb will melt and the honey will run down the wall and can come inside leaving a sticky pesticide laden mess for the resident to clean up. This often happens when the pest controller uses a highly toxic, repellant type pesticide. Thirdly, and probably the worst consequence is when the pest controller uses a non-repellant (non detectable by insects) type pesticide. Once the bees are dead and the honey is unprotected, the bees from other local hives will smell it and proceed to rob it out and take it back to their home to feed the hive. The natural consequence of this behaviour is that many other local hives will die due to secondary pesticide poisoning. Last season I was called out to rescue a bee swarm that had just moved into a wall. The homeowner had a pest controller dust the first swarm that went into the cavity a few weeks earlier. Within a week of the first kill, another swarm arrived and moved in. This was again killed by a pest controller. They called me as they thought that there might have been a better way. Well the third swarm was in the wall and I arranged to come back in a few days to see if they had survived. I was sceptical as they had moved into the same spot. When I returned, I found that the third swarm had in fact died in the wall. There was still some bees rolling around on the ground obviously affected by pesticides. While I was there I heard the roar of another swarm and sure enough they landed on the same spot. I got up on a ladder and spotted the queen and put her in a clip. I then put the clip in a hive on the roof and the bees all started to move into the hive. Some were going in the wall as this was their target new home. I left the hive on the roof for a few days and when I returned it was full of dead bees, including the queen. They had all been affected by the residual pesticide in the wall. So, in all, a single hole in the wall and two pest controller jobs resulted in killing 4 swarms. Please make sure that you cover up the holes in your houses and you will not get bees (or worse wasps) moving in. If bees do move in, contact a beekeeper who is experienced in bee removal (btw not many are) and talk through the issue with them. In most instances, the bee removalist will remove and relocate the bees, plug up the holes all for a similar cost to a pest controller.