Recipe supplied by Taylor Pass Honey Honeyed Pecans Serves: 1 cup Prep: 5 minutes Cook: 43 minutes Ingredients: ▪ 1 cup of Pecans ▪ ¼ cup of Taylor Pass Honey ▪ 1 tablespoon of sugar ▪ ¼ teaspoon of salt ▪ Pinch of ground red pepper Method: Simply preheat your oven to [...]
Agriculture Minister, Hon Damien O’Connor, has officially launched the 10th annual Bee Aware Month, a nation-wide celebration of bees and their importance to our ecosystem, food chain and economy. Minister O’Connor inspected the Prime Minister’s beehives based at Premier House in Wellington this afternoon to mark the beginning of Bee Aware Month. He told [...]
Ben and Leah Mee are the owner/operators of Southern Alps Honey in Canterbury. What got you started in beekeeping? Ben has always had an interest in bees and their honey. As a child, he would kick the honey supers off the top of the hives that were on his parents’ farm and help himself [...]
Pictured standing left to right: Issac Holback, Gus Vautier, Nico Buda, Esme Hollings, Saffanah Rahman and seated Sterling Williamson Year 5 and 6 students at Te Aro School look after the school’s two hives. The students look after the bees and help with extraction and honey making. Last year they harvested 60kg of honey [...]
Recipe supplied by De Winkel Serves: 2 large jars or 4 regular glasses Prep time: 15 minutes Ingredients 2 medium Granny Smith apples, seeded, cored, quartered 1 frozen banana (or add a few cubes of ice with a fresh banana) 1/3 cup rolled oats 1 cup De Winkel Plain Unsweetened Yoghurt 1 cup milk 2 [...]
Recipe supplied by J.Friend and Co. Makes 1 x 20 cm square cake Ingredients: 250 gm butter, softened to room temperature 1 cup sugar ¼ cup J. Friend and Co Vipers Bugloss Leatherwood Honey 4 free range eggs Zest and juice of 2 large lemons 2 cups plain flour 3 tsp baking [...]
Recipe supplied by Happy Valley Ingredients 125 g Butter 1 packed Cup Brown Sugar 2 TBLS Golden Syrup 1 TBLS Happy Valley’s Kamahi honey 1 can sweetened Condensed Milk 100g White Chocolate Melts 1/2 cup chopped crystallized cherries 1/2 cup chopped lightly toasted pistachio nuts Method 1. Melt the butter. 2. Add [...]
JOINT STATEMENT: Apiculture New Zealand, Beef + Lamb New Zealand, DairyNZ, Dairy Companies Association of New Zealand, Deer Industry New Zealand, Federation of Māori Authorities, Foundation for Arable Research, Federated Farmers, Horticulture New Zealand, Irrigation New Zealand, and the Meat Industry Association Primary sector leaders have come together to make an unprecedented commitment from [...]
Science, innovation and commitment to the apiculture industry were recognised at Apiculture New Zealand’s annual conference. The Roy Paterson Trophy which acknowledges the best innovative idea, invention or technology in beekeeping was awarded to Veritaxa and Analytica Laboratories for their Classifynder system. This system uses robotics, image processing and neural network technology to count [...]
Photos from Gary Glasson and Mario Bernasconi wowed the judges and the public at the ApiNZ National Photography competition at Conference 2019. Gary Glasson of Glasson Apiaries on the West Coast won the supreme medal at the competition and took home gold medals for a dramatic photo of hives being swept away by a [...]