Small-Group Bee Farm Tour Experience | Geebung, Brisbane, QLD
April 04, 2021
Small-Group Bee Farm Tour Experience in Brisbane
An immersive unique and fun close encounter with the most fascinating of natures small creatures, honey bees!
100,000 bees per hive. From site to site the number of hives varies but on average one site can have up to 100 hives. This means when we go out into the Apiary, we can be surrounded by more than 10 million bees. The first time you go out into the field and experience the sound and feeling of those bees around you is one you will never forget. Many have felt overwhelmed by the intensity of this experience but surrounded by the smell of honey, immersed in the greenness of your surroundings, sounds of the birds, the intense hum of the bees begins to fade, and you begin to have what is, dare I say almost a spiritual experience.
Highlights
A close up fun and safe encounter with Bees
Learning about bees and all they do for the environment
Observe what a working honey farm looks like
Find out the fascinating way bees turn pollen and nectar into honey
Interact with bees in their natural environment
Extract your own honey and take home some delicious goodies
Whats Included
Instructions from professional beekeepers
Safety equipment with full PPE white beekeeper suits and gloves
The opportunity to extract honeycomb from a beehive
The ultimate fun bee farm tour experience and designed for someone with an interest and love for the bees! Bring a friend, partner or loved one and create a very special shared memory for everyone.
We deliver this experience on our working honey farm and this is a true 'hands on' experience to share with you, everything about the bees, the process of being a beekeeper and how we produce some of our unique multi-floral honey products.
This is an immersive experience so you will be suited up in a head to toe in one of our white protective triple layer ventilated beekeeping outfit.
We'll venture out to our nearby Bee Farm, once we arrive at the Apiary we'll give you some advice on staying calm and what to expect with your close encounter.
With the safety and guidance of a Master Beekeeper you'll be able to approach the hives, extract a frame of honeycomb and witness the breathtaking natural phenomenon that is honeybees hard at work.
Our Apiary is located in the heart of suburban Brisbane and is rich in biodiversity and our bees forage happily on the area’s flowering native flora such as the abundant and medicinal manuka (leptospermum scoparium), bright orange poicinana (delonix regia) and bloodwood gum (corymbia gummifera)
We will share with you the workings of an operational productive hive, see the smoking process, open their beehive home and check out the busy bees doing their thing.
You'll have the opportunity to observe different bee homes - a flow hive, top bar hive and a langstroth hive.
We will show you the different stages of bee development and look out for the Queen Bee!
You'll get a chance to spin off your own honey to take home from frames of uncapped honeycomb that has come straight from the beehive!
Once your experience is over we'll send you off tired and happy with all your bee related questions answered. And a goody bag full of Two Busy Bees Honey treats!
Session Length and Location
Tour participants (Maximum Group Size: 5) need to arrive at 7:15am
Creamed Soft Set Pure Honey - A divinely delicious creamy and smooth pot set natural honey with a soft spreadable texture. It takes a lot of hard work, love and commitment to produce creamed honey and this comes though in the taste. Just like wine and cheese the best things take time!
Crunchy Oven Roasted Chick Peas - A healthy, delicious, economical and quick snack! Chickpeas take on a wonderful nutty flavour when roasted and it just seems to work well with whatever spice, herb, or sauce that you add!
This easy honey roasted carrots recipe will quickly become a favourite in your home cooking. If you can find a mixture of different coloured carrots it makes this dish delicious and pretty!
Deborah and John were extremely helpful and patient. Transferring the nucleus was quick and easy. Thank you so much, I look forward to my next colony. 😄
