Sticky Business

Jody Gerdts
15 hours ago
2 min read

It's going to take a few posts to catch you up on what me and the bees have been doing this season. Let's just say it has been a cracker of a past few months.

Spring grouping yard as bees come off of almonds. The "herd" all gathers here and then gets grouped into smaller "loads" before dispersing around the Benalla area.

After bees came home from almonds, we bunched all the colonies together in a large grouping yard where we made sure every hive was healthy.

We started doing mite checks, gave colonies extra boxes so they could continue to grow with bees and have a place to make honey. Colonies were bunched together for most of September amongst the canola, pulses, wheat, red box, yellow gum, and yellow box in the Broken River catchment

Once we had groups of 48 colonies fit and healthy with the right amount of room for their next job, we loaded them up in on the truck to shift to new locations

Our trusty truck and Queen Buzz Buzz (the loader) shifting an apiary of 48 colonies to a new location

Shifting bees from their early spring site to greener pastures

Some went near Reef Hills, Some went to the Strathbogies at Warrenbayne, some out to Lima, some near Benalla, some to Boho.

Honey that was made in Stewarton and Boxwood is this year's Spring Honey

Like all of our honey, Spring Honey

is a product of that particular

Our first drum of Spring honey from Boxwood Victoria

Freshly extracted comb from our Spring Honey, a mix of ground flora and Red Box, and Yellow box

season, that landscape, and that specific period of time- in this case Spring , Vintage 2025.

Sometimes, if the stars align, we are able to produce single flora origin honey (like we are currently doing with Greybox), but because we leave honey with the bees until we are absolutely sure they don't need it, most of our honey is a blend of floral sources expertly crafted in the comb by the bees themselves.