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 […]
Benedict Hughes' sweet deliverance. Alex brings home the coconut.
A few months ago I wrote about urban beekeeping pioneer, Lyndon Fenlon, and the urban honey legacy he left Melbourne when he left Melbourne. Well Benedict Hughes akaThe Practical Beekeeper, that’s him above collecting honey on the rooftop of The Commons Apartments in Brunswick, is one of the keepers of that legacy. Benedict makes a living as an urban […]
The Practical Beekeeper. Wide Asparagusso Sea
The long cold winter had Benedict Hughes worried his bees would run out of honey and starve before the Spring came. But last week as he peered into one of his hives in an Ivanhoe backyard Benedict breathed a sigh of relief when he saw new season’s honey flowing. The worry has now faded as Benedict is suddenly busy answering one or two call-outs a day to collect swarms – […]