We didn’t have the best Pohutukawa flowering this Christmas, for some reason the trees made more leaves than flowers but there were enough for the bees to make some honey! We are really excited to see what they have! You never know till you open the hive and see what the bees have done.

Because we harvest our Pohutukawa honey after Christmas we will have to send our honey to be tested for Tutin testing. Tute is a native plant which can grow in the far north, it’s poisonous, sometimes cows eat it and they die. In summer passion fruit vine hoppers make honeydew when they suck the sap from Tute and the bees can collect it, it won’t hurt bees but if people eat that honey they can be poisoned! So we will send ours to be tested to make sure its safe, each test costs about $50.00.

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