Bliss Bees New Zealand

09/01/2024

Sunset Swims

09/08/2023

Are you interested in learning to keep bees? If so, this is the course I teach in Palmerston North.
It runs every second Saturday from August through to April. This allows you to experience an entire season of Beekeeping. Please message me if you would like to learn more about the course.

It's that time of year again! We are excited to release the confirmed locations and start dates for our 2023 mid-year part time Apiculture courses. Check out the table below to see if we have an opportunity being offered near you... For more information on the programme itself go to our Apiculture L...

14/04/2022

Heading to Sunrise Hut

07/09/2021

We are currently selling our 2021 stock of honey!

Jars are 1kg for $20.00 in glass jars and with paper labels.

We deliver for free to your doorstep in Palmerston North, Feilding and Ashhurst on Wednesdays.

As usual, our stock changes as we only bottle our honey in small batches. We like to blend our darker floral honey with our lighter clover stock to produce a beautiful tasting mid toned honey.

Thank you to all our current customers for your ongoing support during lockdowns and we look forward to seeing you all again soon!

Thanks
Matt and Family

01/12/2020

Introducing our new paper labels!

Typically in a label, we look for vinyl to ensure durability when wet, cleaning, honey dribbles and temperature changes.
This paper label has none of those features - It has no durability when wet and crinkles with temperature variations... and we love that because it's a small price to pay when looking out for the environment.

We're asking our customers to please give us feedback on this issue.

Would you rather a vinyl non-recyclable label that looks good long term or a paper label with no durability that's great for the environment?

We look forward to, and value, your feedback.

03/06/2020

We're ready to start selling our 2020 harvest honey!
Our honey was completely clear of tutin (as we suspected 😉)
We're resuming regular deliveries to Palmerston North on Wednesdays and daily in Feilding. Please contact us via messengar to arrange courier to anywhere in New Zealand.

Thank you everyone for your continued support!

Matt
Bliss Bees

06/05/2020

Thank you to everyone who has contacted us throughout the lockdown regarding buying our honey. We are currently awaiting honey testing results for Tutin then we will ready to commence sales again.

Tutin is a poisonous compound that can be found in honey in New Zealand. In a long hot dry summer like the one we've just had, the passion vine hopper drinks the sap of the Tutu plant and excretes a sticky substance called honeydew which the bees then collect and store as honeydew honey. A single cell in a frame of this honey could kill. Livestock will die if they eat this plant.
The Manawatu is considered very low risk for tutin and we have historically always been clear but we know from talking to locals that Tutu is growing in our region so we continue to test just to be sure.

Sales will continue to be contactless delivery or pick up from our home letterbox with payment preferably via internet banking in advance.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12005287

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutu_(plant)

Canterbury DHB has issued a warning after a 51-year-old man ate toxic berries.

23/03/2020

Please keep us in mind if you require honey over the next few weeks. We can arrange honey supply without any person to person contact.
Pick up is in Feilding, we allow bank transfer for payment.
Be well, stay healthy, be kind to each other!

17/03/2020

Fresh 2020 Multifloral honey available.

Harvested from our hives at Makino, Feilding.

$20 per kilogram
Glass jars and paper labels.

Free delivery in Palmerston North and Feilding.
We courier to anywhere in New Zealand.

We extract box to bucket. This means we can retain each hive's unique honey flavour and colour. We don't pasteurise or microfilter our honey.

The honey pictured is from our Makino apiary. It has a higher clover content along with a variety of other plants flowering in this region.

Please PM us to place your order. We have mobile EFTPOS, and accept bank transfer and cash.

Our honey is extracted under an NP2.
We are a small family business located in Feilding, New Zealand.

03/02/2020

Fresh 2020 Multifloral honey available harvested from our hives at Massey University, Palmerston North and Makino, Feilding.

$20 per kilogram
Gass jars and paper labels.
Free delivery in Palmerston North and Feilding.
We courier to anywhere in New Zealand.

We extract box to bucket. This means we can retain each hive's unique honey flavour and colour. We don't pasteurise or microfilter our honey..

The darker honey in this photo was harvested from Massey University campus, Palmerston North.

The lighter honey pictured is from our Makino apiary. It has a higher clover content along with a variety of other plants flowering in this region.

We have limited stock of both.

Please PM us to place your order. We have mobile EFTPOS, and accept bank transfer and cash.

Our honey is extracted under an NP2.
We are a small family business located in Feilding, New Zealand.

16/12/2019

I'm feeling pretty excited about this season's honey flow. I've been building boxes the last few days then I'll be painting, and waxing frames inbetween throwing empty boxes (supers) onto my hives. Some of my urban hives are already 4 and 5 boxes high (including a single brood box), whereas my country apiaries where clover is predominant are only 3 to 4 boxes high.
Flow Nectar Flow!