Stephens Honey in Mole Creek, Tasmania | Food service distributor

Stephens Honey

Locality: Mole Creek, Tasmania

Phone: +61 3 6363 1170

Address: 25 Pioneer Drive 7304 Mole Creek, TAS, Australia

Website: http://www.leatherwoodhoney.com.au

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25.01.2022 Lots of excitement at our packing plant this week, our first shipment of new season leatherwood honey off to the USA. Lots of detail in the packing including airbags in the container.

25.01.2022 The Leatherwood Trees have flowered well this year. We are in the finishing stages of collecting honey from the hives and preparing them for winter. Our extracting team have been kept busy and our tanks are filling up. We have an a fabulous crew of workers and although the days have been long, we have made to most of it while the sun is still shining here in Tasmania.

24.01.2022 Happy New Year to you all. Our bee keepers are taking off clover and blackberry honey, then preparing our hives for the journey to the West Coast of Tasmania to gather Leatherwood honey. We have moved about a third of the hives already. So no holidaying for our crew. We are hoping for a better year than last year.

24.01.2022 The R Stephens Honey Story - part one In 1914 Robert Stephens had just started his hives at Mole Creek when he joined the 12th Battalion. During the war his parents looked after his few hives. Robert returned to Tasmania in 1919 and purchased 2 acres of land where the factory and apiary are not situated. In 1923 fifty hives were moved to Caveside by horse and cart. This rate of expansion continued; more hives being placed in neighbouring districts until 1937. In 1929-30 an AA Model Ford truck was purchased and two men employed to work the 450 hives which produced a record crop of honey, only to result in very poor honey sales. During the intensification of the Depression in 1930 the now famous GOLDEN BEE label came into existence.

23.01.2022 The R Stephens Honey Story - part two In the summer of 1934, Robert Stephens transported bees to the Mt Arrowsmith area on the West coast of Tasmania. He traveled from Mole Creek along the Great Lake to Waddamana, by Dee Lagoon to Bronte via the partly constructed Lyell Highway to Mt Arrowsmith, returning through Skittle Ball Plain, which is now commonly known as the missing link. Owing to bad roads, poor transport and the war he did not return again until 1951, this time ...with a 1937 Ford truck. Poor conditions in the north then forced him to move westward where a reasonable crop of Leatherwood Honey was produced. Retail markets were then established for this unique honey and the distinctive Golden Nectar label was designed. It is now to be found in health shops, green grocers and supermarkets in Australia and specialty shops in the USA.

23.01.2022 We enjoy a long association with Beauty and the Bees, a fabulous Tasmanian company. They use our organic beeswax in their products and sell our organic Leatherwood Honey. Leatherwood honey has a unique flavour and aromatic perfume. It is rare and only produced in Tasmania.

22.01.2022 Our beekeepers yesterday took a load of empty supers by special train into visit some hives in Tasmania' s South West wilderness. The only way in is by this narrow rail track. We load two trucks onto the train and then unload trucks, travel up steep terrain where we have some sites. Being so isolated we never know until we get there if the bees have been able to gather Leatherwood honey. Yesterday we saw beautiful fully drawn combs, a sight to put smiles on beekeepers face, we had the opposite experience last year. After a big day of taking honey off and putting empty supers on, it's back down the steep terrain, and back onto the train.

18.01.2022 To all our fellow beekeepers across Australia affected by fires and drought - We hope your are all safe. Our thoughts are with you and the bees. Just dreadful conditions and a tragedy for our industry This time last year we ourselves faced a 85% collapse in honey production and over winter loss hives.in numbers we have not experienced before. 2020 is a year our company celebrates 100 years of operation and we will bring you some interesting facts as the year progresses.

18.01.2022 Enjoy some honey over the festive season, it's a great gift and it's great as a glaze on your ham. We have been working hard in preparation for the upcoming Leatherwood Honey season. Our beekeepers have been out visiting our hives to ensure they are healthy and growing a strong work force to gather a new season of honey.

16.01.2022 https://vimeo.com/212212608 Beauty and the Bees is a Tasmanian company and we are very proud to supply them products to make their quality hand made natural skin care range. Take a peek into their world with this short video.

14.01.2022 Hello to all our Victorian customers. You will not find our Leatherwood Honey - Golden Nectar in Woolworths any more. We are sorry to say we could not renegotiate a price with them and we are in short supply of this unique honey. However there are some other shops we supply as per below: Royal Nut Co in Brunswick ph 9383 5555 Terra Madre in Northcote ph 9489 5824... Grand Foods in Campbellfield ph 9357 9924 Land of Soy & Honey at Vic Market ph 9326 7979 Melbourne Nut Co in Reservoir ph 9462 2929 Leatherwood International in Point Cook 0422 919 319 As always if you have any queries please let us know. Thank you for your loyalty and support.

14.01.2022 Our bees working hard out on the East Coast of Tasmania, where the weather is a little warmer.

14.01.2022 We have made some updates to our website: www.leatherwoodhoney.com.au

13.01.2022 We have news for Mainland Australia, if you pop into Woolworths our Leatherwood Honey is back on the shelf:)

12.01.2022 In January 2018 Jean Charbonneau a French Film Maker visited Tasmania and took a very impressive video of the Leatherwood honey production. We were lucky it was a good honey production unlike the most recent season. Jean does some amazing work which you can see on his website www.jeancharbonneau.fr We hope you enjoy this insight into the world of our bees collecting Leatherwood honey in the spectular west coast of Tasmania.

11.01.2022 Our honey can be purchased on line through www.honeycube.com.au/product-category/tasmanian-honey

08.01.2022 Its Back watch it before it disappears again:) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD9Zq-a577Y This is amazing, all things Tasmania, Gordon Ramsay new Uncharted series airs in Australia on 7th July, National Geo Channel (Channel 613) Foxtel. Or take a look at this you tube link and scroll through the ads, its worth it, about half way in our family honey business features. The whole episode is fabulous - 45 minutes.

06.01.2022 We have located another online shop that sells our wonderful honey: www.tastyhoney.com/collections/leatherwood-honey

05.01.2022 https://www.wcwr.com.au/ This is the railway company that helps cart our hives in and out of a West Coast Wilderness area near Strahan. Its a great trip to take, the scenery is just stunning. Support local Tasmania Tourism.

01.01.2022 Do you know we have a shop at the factory in Mole Creek? We do and its open week days between 10am and 4pm. During February there is a lot of activity around the factory as we are extracting honey and trucks are coming and going. You may get a glimpse of this activity if you pop in to buy some honey. A drive to Mole Creek includes some stunning scenery and other places of interest. The wildlife park has different things happening every day of the week; lunch at either the pub or brewery and there is a café out of town on the way to the caves. These are just a few things.