Avalon Honey

Avalon Honey I love to educate people about honey bees 🥰🐝 Avalon Honey and bee pollen is available at 32 Elouera Road, Avalon Beach. I also make beeswax candles and wraps.

My hives are at home and near Barrenjoey High School. https://linktr.ee/avalonhoneybees 🐝🐝

24/09/2026

Honey bees are incredibly productive and take full advantage of the natural resources in our fabulous local environment 🌻🐝🌼🐝 I have started to use pollen traps from time to time to slow my bees from storing too much pollen in their brood area.

This video shows up close how the pollen traps work on the front of a hive. The bees squeeze through small circular rings, which knock the pollen off their back legs into the catch tray below. I only leave them on for a part of the day and some days it can be incredible how much pollen a colony collects.

I only use these traps on a strong colony and make sure the bees have sufficient for their own use. The heath of the colony is always my top priority 🥰🐝

I love to eat pollen on my yogurt and I sell pollen for $20/100g. Best to message me as I have a list of customers that want pollen and it’s only available intermittently when my bees have too much.

🌼 SPRING AVALON HONEY 🌻It’s Spring and honey harvesting has begun 🍯🐝 Avalon Honey which is available at my front door ...
23/09/2026

🌼 SPRING AVALON HONEY 🌻

It’s Spring and honey harvesting has begun 🍯🐝 Avalon Honey which is available at my front door at 32 Elouera Road, Avalon Beach.

Please message me if you have any specific requests such as a bulk order of the 200g gift jars or BYO jar to fill 🍯🍯🍯

Prices for my Avalon Honey are $12/320g or $17/500g. Payment options are payID to my mobile or cash, details on the honey table

19/09/2026

I’ve been making splits from my hives in order to prevent my colonies from swarming. It’s important to understand that swarming is the honey bees natural way to reproduce and multiply their numbers. By making a split, the original colony have more space and the new colony makes one or more queen cells. In this case the original colonies had started to make queen cells, so I made splits with queen cells in progress.

This video clip shows the hatched out virgin queen and also the cell that she hatched from. Comment in the post the time of the video when you spot the queen. She’s not always in the frame 😉

if you’re in Avalon Beach tomorrow (Sunday 19 September 2026) then the person that spots her the earliest can collect a free small jar of fresh Avalon Honey that I’ve harvested today. Come to Avalon Public School at midday where I’ll be giving a talk about honey bees and native bees. It’s free so come along to meet my bees 🐝 I’ll be at the APS garden near the entrance on Bellevue Avenue. There are also talks on worm farms and composting by Kimbriki Recycling Centre.

I will be harvesting when I can find some free time in September but I’m currently down to my last two jars of my Autumn...
10/09/2026

I will be harvesting when I can find some free time in September but I’m currently down to my last two jars of my Autumn Avalon Honey 🍯🍯

Avalon Honey makes a sweet gift for any event. A customer recently bought 30 jars as gifts for guests attending their ba...
04/09/2026

Avalon Honey makes a sweet gift for any event. A customer recently bought 30 jars as gifts for guests attending their baby shower. They dressed the jars up with a piece of hessian and a cute label 🎁😊

Please contact me well in advance of any event you have planned as I don’t always have honey available. Currently only have the jars that are left on my honey table and my next 10kg Spring harvest has been pre-ordered by a regular customer for corporate gifts 🍯🐝

I’ve been actively building new colonies of honey bees and having fun catching swarms. This means I have colonies availa...
31/08/2026

I’ve been actively building new colonies of honey bees and having fun catching swarms. This means I have colonies available for local beekeepers to buy and collect from me. It’s important to be registered as a beekeeper, so please make sure you are.

Nucs include an established laying queen with frames of bees, food stores and brood at all stages. Just the frames as I need my wooden nuc boxes back. She’ll be a 2026 queen marked white.
$300 - 5 frame nuc
$200 - 3 frame nuc
$100 - swarm - can vary in size, exchange for # of new frames with foundation or cost of those
$50 - marked laying queen
$30 - 5 frame corflute nuc box

29/08/2026

Finding a queen bee is very much like the “Where’s Wally” books but they are moving! (Where’s Walter for US followers)

29/08/2026

I’ve had queen bees playing “Where’s Wally” today! One hive that is super strong and the queen is laying really solidly and the colony already has three supers (1 deep and 2 shallow) on and packed with bees.

Another was a nuc (nucleus) hive from a cutout colony that I caught a couple of months ago. It’s only 5 frames so not many places to hide but she was elusive. We eventually found her on the second look. They are super calm bees and lovely to work with. She’s new this season as the bees made a new queen after the cut out. My white dot was a little messy by my usual standards.

12/08/2026

Swarm season has definitely started early this year on the Northern Beaches and wider Sydney area based on what I hear from other beekeepers. The first swarm I tried to catch at the weekend was too high in a tree, but this swarm early today was low in a hedge so relatively easy to capture. I found the queen which appears to be a virgin, so this is quite likely a secondary swarm as these came from a hive with marked queens.

Please let me know if you see a swarm and I can collect them to house it in a managed hive. Sometimes I’ll connect you with another beekeeper when I’m busy. Often there’s no charge to collect, but complex collections may cost money. The sooner you report a swarm the better, as these collections become complex when bees move into an undesirable location.

You can also report swarms online and local beekeepers in the area will be notified: https://www.beekeepers.asn.au/swarms

🍯 Avalon Honey 🍯I’ve refreshed my honey table with a cute new bee-design tablecloth, but I’m down to my last few jars of...
11/08/2026

🍯 Avalon Honey 🍯

I’ve refreshed my honey table with a cute new bee-design tablecloth, but I’m down to my last few jars of the May harvest 🍯😢 Only the 500g jars are available in two styles:
Naturally Crystallised: (Black lids) – $17
Creamed: (Honeycomb lids) – $20

Good news: I just got a bucket of my April harvest back from a friend’s special controlled heat box! It’s been gently warming over a week to bring it back to liquid form and I’ll be jarring this up over the coming weekend!

As the April nectar has a higher glucose content, this is likely to crystallise relatively quickly, similar to the May honey. However, as you know when it’s thick it’s absolutely delicious and perfect for spreading on warm sourdough toast 🥖🍯😋

Added the liquid honey from my April harvest. That’s got a trial version of my new label design. I think it still needs some work.

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32 Elouera Road
Avalon, NSW
NSW2107

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+61425183605

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