Milkwood Autumn Courses: Beekeeping, Mushrooms & more
Keen to make 2019 the year you finally start keeping bees? Growing mushrooms? Begin your garden? Or even start growing as a livelihood? Here you go, friend.
Beeswax DIY: making beeswax wraps + how to render your own wax
Beeswax is one of our favourite gifts from the hive – and perfect for making your own beeswax wraps. At this gifting time of year, no-waste, home made presents make all the sense in the world – so here’s how … Continued
Natural Beekeeping: a Principles Based Approach
Chapter three in Milkwood is all about Natural Beekeeping, and how you can use a principles-based approach to keep bees at home, safe and well, in a range of hive designs. But why natural beekeeping? Why not just keep bees in … Continued
The Milkwood Book – sneak peek
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Author : Kirsten Bradley
It is with much excitement that we can finally share with you – the Milkwood book is coming. Hooray! Many years in the making, our little labour of love will be out in all good bookstores on September 1st. We … Continued
Natural Beekeeping: Dealing with Small Hive Beetle
As the weather heats up, the bees get busy. We’re all hoping for a great season. But the hotter weather also brings with it possible bee pests including small hive beetle, especially if you’re beekeeping in wam-temperate Australia. Here’s some tips for … Continued
Natural Beekeeping: Beekeeping with Small Children
A backyard full of kids toys, chickens, veggies and bees is one kind of backyard that we love. Kids and bees, though. Can they happily co-habit? The answer is Yes! We caught up with Emily Gimellaro from Wilton recently about … Continued
Warré Honey Harvest: Processing a Box of Natural Honeycomb
Harvesting a box of warré honeycomb is an exciting event in any beekeeping year – its a sign that your bees have so much honey stored that taking a full box of honeycomb off the top of the hive won’t even be … Continued
Making Starter Strips for your Warré Hive Top Bars
Starter strips are a great way to encourage your bees to build their natural comb straight off your top bars. Because straight comb means easier harvest and inspection, which means less disturbance to your bees. Preparing starter strips for your … Continued
Natural Beekeeping: Installing a new Warré Apiary at Buena Vista Farm
Our bees are back! We’ve set up a small Warré apiary at Buena Vista Farm on the coast at Gerringong. This will be a little different from beekeeping in the dry inland hills of Mudgee… 18 months ago we said goodbye to our … Continued
Natural Beekeeping: Catching our first Swarm
It was hot, and humid, and threatening to storm. Perfect weather for catching our first honeybee swarm. We got the alert via our friends Adam + Fiona of Buenavista Farm – the usual bush telegraph story – someone called them … Continued
Natural Beekeeping article in Organic Gardener Magazine
Have you seen the latest edition of Organic Gardener Magazine? It contains an article we wrote, about the principles of natural beekeeping. We really wanted to write this article from a principles based approach for a couple of reasons – primarily because … Continued
Natural Beekeeping: Tips for catching a swarm
One way to obtain yourself a healthy honeybee colony to put in your hive is to catch a swarm. While this might sound daunting, catching a swarm is entirely doable, and there’s many ways to go about it. Swarming is an optimistic … Continued
Natural Beekeeping: Selecting a site for your New Apiary
Selecting a good site for your apiary can make a huge difference to honeybee health, and your hive’s honey harvest too. Here’s some important things to consider when choosing a site. Natural Beekeeping is about stewarding honeybee colonies in place, … Continued