Australia's Manuka

18/11/2025

WARNING - IMAGES OF WOUNDS

Testimonial from one of our customer below we so glad for this outcome for her. Note she did seek medical attention first as it was severe burns.

A miracle/ mindblowing healing power
I received partial thickness burns to my arms and face after a small gas explosion. It was dressed with antibacterial gauze and paraffin for 3 days. On the 4 th day the advice from a nurse was Manuka honey from Tyagarah is ESSENTIAL. We dabbed 850 honey all over my wounds and by morning, all the swelling was gone and after just 30 hours, all new skin was formed and all weeping had stopped. The dead skin virtually dissolved day by day with new fresh skin underneath. A week later and my wounds are completely healed. There is an added bonus that my melanocytes have not become active. I normally produce too much melanin, creating very black scarring. This is the first time in more than 20 years that black scarring has not occurred.
I am so grateful! I feel it should be in everyone's medicine kit. It really is miraculous!

16/11/2025

Beautiful slow motion bees, listen to the slow buzz and then the fast buzz. Thanks Macro Bees

16/11/2025

What is a Drone?

The Drones in the hive are the male bees. They are bigger than Worker bees and smaller than the Queen bee. The Drones do not do much except mate with the Queen bee. The Worker bees are all female and do all the work in the hive.

We generally avoid having too many Drones in our hives as they do not contribute to caring for the baby bee, making honey, cleaning, temperature control and protection of the hive. Drones cannot sting. We try to have more Worker bees to build strong hives that produce lots of honey.

15/11/2025

Some difficult decisions to be made by the shareholders of Comvita, NZs biggest Manuka honey company.

Comvita’s shareholders have denied the wishes of both their board and biggest shareholders to vote down the takeover bid of Florenz and one of New Zealand’s wealthiest people, Mark Stewart, in a decision that pushes New Zealand’s largest honey company closer to receivership.

13/11/2025

We love smoothies!

Manuka honey is a great smoothies ingredient as it is best serves raw!

Manuka & Berry Smoothie 🍯 🫐 🍓

Ingredients
1/2 cup frozen blueberries
1/2 cup of frozen strawberries
3 tablespoons of greek yoghurt or coconut yoghurt
Preferred Protein Powder or Collagen
Splash of preferred milk
2 teaspoons of Manuka honey

Method
Throw ingredients into a blender and blend. You can use some yoghurt to decorate the bottom of the jar and garnish with herbs and berries.

Which MGO to use?
For gut issues we recommend a 550+MGO or higher, for general health and wellbeing the lower MGOs are suitable.

13/11/2025

Celebrating Australian Pollinator Week with these beautiful photography and sounds, thanks Macro Bees

11/11/2025

It is World Pollination Week, so we wanted to share some of our pollinators with you. This season we had our bees at what is a Manuka flower bee site. But when we went to check them the boxes were full with Macadamia honey. Upon further inspection of the area we found the culprit, an abundant Macadamia farm right near by, oops...

We had to act quickly to extract this Macadamia honey from the frames. This would make space for the Manuka honey to be created. Here is a clip of Beekeeper Simon finding the the Macadamia honey in the hive. While collecting the nectar to make honey the bees pollinated the orchard for the farmer by taking pollen from one flower to the next. This makes for abundant nut production from the well pollinated flowers.

Not to worry all of our Manuka honey is tested at independant laboratories to determine its purity and MGO strength.

In many places beekeepers charge for this pollination service, at present we do not charge Macadamia farmers for pollination. Our bees do make a delicious Macadamia honey from their orchards.

11/11/2025

Being in the centre of swarming bees can be a beautiful experience, thanks Macro Bees for the lovely video

09/11/2025

World Pollinator Week is 8th -16th of November.

Pollinators are used in about two thirds of Australian Crops, with the European honey bee responsible for $14.2 Billion in the Australian Economy.

We have many native pollinators which are also important, these include:
- Pygmy-possom
- honey possum
- Fly fox
- over 2,000 different native bees
- Flies
- Butterflies
- Moths
- Beetles
- Honey eater birds
- Lorikets
- Wattle Birds
- Noisy Miners

Australian Pollinator Week acknowledges our important and unique insect pollinators during our southern spring (November). It is a designated week when community, business and organisations can come together to raise awareness of the importance of pollinators and support their needs.

06/11/2025

Varroa Mite Update

Varroa Mite was first detected in Australia in June 2022, they did attempt to control it (varying opinions on how this was managed or not managed in interests of the bees and beekeepers). This year is the first year our hives have the mite and it has been an extremely stressful time for our family and the broader beekeeping community and industry in Australia.

Presently the government and a few companies control the "approved" treatments to the detriment of the beekeeper. As result of Varroa Mite many beekeepers are reducing their number of hives. The wild bee hives responsible for a great deal of free pollination in Australia are also going suffer and most will die.

The hardest part of all of this is for Australia is that many other farmers rely heavily on bees for pollination and the current state of the industry is in shambles. Until we pay a fair price for real honey, stop importing fake counterfeit honey and give beekeepers a national voice things will only get worse for everyone that means the prices of food is set to increase further as scarcity begins due to lack of pollination.

We hope to see resilient Queen breeding and lower cost treatment in line with the global prices and more natural treatments ready made in the future.

is our local researcher lab so we are lucky to be so close this amazing project as part of Southern Cross University.

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04/11/2025

Some images of the Manuka honey in flower this year 🌸

These are the dainty little flowers that our bees forage from in the pristine coastal forests of Bundjalung country to create our amazing Manuka honey.

02/11/2025

Wearing of gloves while beekeeping is a topic for discussion. Many beekeepers won't often wear gloves and some wear them almost all the time. For the most part it depends on what task in the broad range of beekeeping task a beekeeper is performing and also how aggressive the bees are. 🐝 🐝 🐝

The bees aggression could be genetic due to the Queen bees temperament or the weather or other environmental factors such as a fire near by. When they are protecting the hive from perceived threats bees tend to me more aggressive.

Excuse the profanity and dropping of the frame in this video 😳