World Bee Day & The Fake Honey Saga
World Bee Day & The Fake Honey Saga Monday was World Bee Day (said quickly takes on a meaning I don’t think the organisers intended) and there was a plethora of stories about the state of the world’s bee populations, domestic and wild. Curiously I didn’t come across anything about last year’s fake honey scandal […]
Sweet victory for local honey hero / Bee aware at CERES
Sweet victory for local honey hero Three years ago Victorian beekeeper, Simon Mulvany (that’s him above), began blowing the whistle on commercial honey giant Capilano Honey for blending cheap Chinese honey with Australian honey in its budget Allowrie brand. Chinese honey according to Simon contains high levels of antibiotics, chemical residues and diseases like foul brood which can […]
Anything but standard honey
Last Saturday at the CERES Harvest Festival and practical beekeeper Benedict Hughes, unveiled the wonderful new Display Hive that he and the CERES Bee Group have finally finished building. Benedict and CERES CEO, Cinnamon Evans, told the story of the Display Hive listing all the people involved over the years and it reminded me of […]
It's as much about the trees as the bees. There's someone you need to meet.
Daniel Saulwick and his boys, Jasper and Charlie (that’s them in the pic) delivered their Central Victorian honey to the warehouse this week. CERES has been buying Daniel’s honey for years – (we both tried to work out how many but just settled on “years”). Like a lot of producers Daniel’s not a full-time beekeeper, […]
