Honey and Hive: Open a Hive, Honey Tasting with Morning Tea

Learn all about bees and taste delicious honey at this unique Bowral experience!



2 hours

Experience size 1 to 4 (public dates), 8 to 40

$128 (Afterpay available)


Join a local beekeeper for a unique honey-tasting experience at a working honey farm (apiary). Honey is a remarkable natural product made from the nectar of flowers, collected by bees. When there's an excess, it is sustainably harvested by experienced beekeepers.
The colour, viscosity, texture, and taste are all dependent on the floral source and can taste different from the same flower at different times of the year.
In this experience, you will meet the owner of the Honey farm, Hamish, who will guide you through ten different floral source honeys and will explain why each has such remarkably different tastes and appearances.
After this, we will get into a full-length beekeeping suit and go down amongst the hives for a close-up look at these remarkable pollinators.
During winter we don't open the hives but can see a lot of activity as the bees come and go. This is a weather-dependent activity, if it is very cold and wet there will be little activity to observe and we won't run these sessions.
If you'd like to actually set up a hive, we run a more in-depth workshop called Beekeeping Class: Flow Hive Fun.
Knowledge required
Beginner-friendly. No knowledge of beekeeping is required.
 
What you'll get
The workshop includes a morning or afternoon tea of freshly baked goodies, leaf tea, and plunger coffee.
 
What to bring
You will need covered shoes. Ideally, ankle-covering boots.
 
Location

Bowral Beekeeping - 174 Mittagong Rd, Bowral NSW

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Bowral Beekeeping is a working honey farm (apiary) in the beautiful Southern Highlands of NSW. Around 1.5 hours from Sydney, 2x hours from Canberra and an hour from Wollongong.
We run regular tours, experiences and workshops at our lovely apiary.
Whether you want to visit our farm gate stall every weekend for free, do a tour and taste some honey, participate in a more in-depth experience, or get started in beekeeping we can help with all stages of your beekeeping journey or interest.
We regularly host corporate, and inbound tour groups.
Our head teacher, Hamish Ta-mé, started his beekeeping journey as a teenager and has been deeply engaged ever since. Alongside his years of experience, Hamish has formal qualifications in beekeeping and teaching.

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