Can I still care for my beehives during Alert Level 4? The overriding purpose of Alert Level 4 is that everyone stays at home to reduce the spread of COVID-19. However, you can leave your house to: Access essential services, like buying groceries, or going to a bank or pharmacy. Go to work if [...]
Following a request from ApiNZ, MPI has developed a travel note for those beekeepers travelling and working as part of essential business. This can be printed off by beekeepers and presented as evidence of being an essential service during the COVID-19 Level 4 alert period. Some companies are providing a confirmation letter for essential staff [...]
The New Zealand Government has declared a nationwide State of Emergency and lockdown for all non-essential services. Our industry, as part of the Agriculture sector, has been granted a dispensation to provide the essential ongoing care of our bees who play a critical role in our rural ecosystem for both horticulture and pasture feed, [...]
Jess Curtis, an 18-year old beekeeping apprentice based in the Cardrona Valley, is the recipient of the 2019 Apiculture New Zealand (ApiNZ) Ron Mossop Youth Scholarship, an award established to encourage young New Zealanders into the apiculture industry. The scholarship covers approved best practice training costs of up to $2000, a one-year membership to [...]
Apiculture New Zealand welcomes the decision by the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) to release the parasitoid insect Pauesia nigrovaria as a biological control agent for the giant willow aphid. “The giant willow aphid is a devastating exotic pest species that has negatively impacted the health of willow trees and by extension the health of bees and [...]
The primary sector welcomes the government’s decision to work with farmers and growers to achieve practical and effective outcomes on climate change under He Waka Eke Noa - the Primary Sector Climate Change Commitment. New Zealand farmers are already world leaders in the highly efficient production of low-emissions food - and we want to [...]
Apiculture New Zealand (ApiNZ) is inviting young people interested in entering the beekeeping industry to apply for the Ron Mossop Youth Scholarship, an annual grant sponsored by Mossop’s Honey and run by ApiNZ. The scholarship aims to encourage young people into the apiculture industry and to undertake training that supports best practice in beekeeping. [...]
Apiculture New Zealand welcomes the Government’s announcement to grant $5.7 million through the Provincial Growth Fund to help secure the term “mānuka honey” for New Zealand. “The funding is critical in realising the benefits of comprehensive protection of New Zealand mānuka honey primarily for consumers and producers, and also in how it will deliver [...]
Avalon Intermediate School has won first place in the Bee Aware Month Primary Schools’ Video Competition, with their bee-inspired music video “Heart and Soul”. The Bee Aware Month Schools’ competition is held annually as part of Bee Aware Month, a nation-wide educational campaign co-ordinated by Apiculture New Zealand (ApiNZ). Bee Aware Month is held [...]
Rob and Lohnet Murray are the owner/operators of Tai Tokerau Honey in Northland. How long have you been keeping bees? Our company, Tai Tokerau Honey Ltd, has been incorporated since 2009, but Rob was working for a large commercial company for a few years before that. I am a registered primary school teacher but [...]