Bees

Buzzo is not ‘on staff’ as such at MCNF but as a fully registered member of Worker Bees Inc, he is doing some consulting work for us. His first port of call was to scout the property to find idyllic home sites for some serious hive development. Quite often Bee Keepers (Apiarists) have to move the hives from place to place to ensure the bees get enough pollen, propolis and nectar. We don’t want to disrupt the home sites of our bees, so it is important to make sure they have ample choice and supply of their favorite foods. Unlike a lot of enterprises on a farm, bee keeping is a really good venture to have in times of drought. Bees don’t like flying in wet and windy conditions so they stay home and eat up all their stored honey! When it’s dry and calm they happily go out to work. We are currently undertaking some serious research in consultation with some of Buzzo’s native bee mates to ensure the dietary requirements needed to produce first class organic honey will be met, as well as all the ‘Insect OH&S’ issues involved while undertaking hazardous branch swerving and spider web dodging!

We love honey and are quite excited about all the other amazing products we will harvest but Bees are really a lot more important to us than just another enterprise. The job they do in cross pollinating is essential to our biodiversity.

In fact …Albert Einstein once predicted that if Bees disappeared, mankind would only have 4 years left!