September is Bee Awareness Month The theme this year is ‘Love Our Bees’, with a focus on the importance of pollination to our environment and food chain. Did you know that 41 different species of bee are found in Aotearoa, and 28 of those species are endemic to New Zealand! Our indigenous bees are pollinators, …
We are very excited to have worked with Just Honey a YES (Young Enterprise Scheme) team at Pompallier Catholic College in Whangarei. Over the last year we donated cartons of our honey to the team of Mitchell Furlong and Kennedy Gates which they then rebranded and sold to customers throughout Northland to raise money for helping …
Joint Effort Raises $1,150.00 for Bumblee Bee Conservation Trust Read More »
This year’s Bee Aware Month, to be held in September, is all about making sure our Kiwi bees have plenty of food to keep them buzzing. Why? We need bees, more than you might think. Bees pollinate one third of the food we eat, and life would be a struggle without them. It’s a two-way street, …
Right now, billions of bees are dying. Already, there are nowhere near enough honeybees in Europe to pollinate the crops, and in California — the biggest food producer in the US — beekeepers are losing 40% of their bees each year. We’re in the middle of an environmental holocaust that threatens all of us, because without …