ABC News story – “Apiarists bring bees back to the city”

Just got wind of this story (thank you to all the lovely friends and fans who send me links and scans and even clippings… it is GREATLY appreciated and I am going to endeavour to share more of them on the blog this year)… Anyway, it’s a great little story about urban beekeeping and amateur [...]

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A bee garden for Sydney?

I have a dream.  Well, I have several actually!  One of them is to establish a Bee Garden in Sydney, and to encourage a renaissance in urban beekeeping.  My dream is for people (kids in particular) to know more about bees… their extraordinary, selfless, hardworking nature and functional community structure… the amazing products of the [...]

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Our most popular blog post for 2010 was… drum roll…

The email below is the text of an email sent to me by WordPress in early January.  Their comments in black, mine in orange italics! Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 5,600 times in 2010. That’s about 13 full 747s. [or about 1/10th of the [...]

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Sydney gets a slice of Joost

Melbourne wunderkind Joost has been sharing the love… with The Rocks in Sydney the first stop on the world tour of The Greenhouse by Joost. The Greenhouse uses light gauge steel, roll formed on site, to create a building shell that is very strong, naturally termite resistant and 100% recyclable.     The building is [...]

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Nothing to do with beeswax candles!

For anyone not in Sydney, well it’s been a little like living in an oven for the past week… particularly when you’re working with molten beeswax on top of the mid-30 degree temperatures every day.  Yesterday it hit 42 degrees celcius.  I decided to go to my local pool on the way home for a [...]

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Idea #1 for left over beeswax – Beeswax Lip Balm

We are often asked what to do with the left over beeswax from burning the rolled pillars.  A lot of customers bring it in or send it back to us where we clean it and put it back into production (after all it is liquid gold).  You may, however, prefer to use it yourself to [...]

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Surviving the summer heat – Banana Smoothies

We’re in the middle of a bit of a heatwave in Sydney at the moment, and it’s even hotter when you’re working with molten beeswax. So, I’ve been making banana smoothies at the hive to keep the troopies watered, motivated and with a big potassium, vitamin B and protein injection (not to mention calcium)! Ingredients [...]

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What happened to January?

I think I am going to pretend that 2011 is an 11 month year… I seemed to miss January completely in terms of doing anything meaningful or useful.  [Having said that I was on morphine immediately post the shoulder surgery, so I did have some fantastic(al) dreams for what we'd do at Queen B in [...]

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