Welcome to Australian HoneyWe supply premium quality Australian Honey. The honey is packed in small quantities such as 500 gm PET Jars, 10 litre and 20 litre buckets, and in sample variety packs for gifts. We supply in bulk quantities, in 300kg Drums, In Full Container Loads (FCL) of 20.4tonnes. Bulk prices vary according to supply and demand, but reflect a fair and reasonable payment for the cost of production, and a contribution towards essential and urgent research to protect the Australian industry from the problems of bees that affect other countries. The honey we supply is from Eastern Australia, produced by beekeepers whose quality control standards are absolutely as good as possible. Unless otherwise stated, all honey is Organically Certified. There will be no contamination in our honey. Batch samples are kept for each lot extracted. It is produced without additional heating, stored quickly without prolonged exposure to air to preserve natural aromatic qualities, and kept as varietal honey without being blended. It usually crystallises and solidifies because that is natural for honey of such quality. It can be liquefied by gentle warming. Annual production is usually several thousand tonnes, but it sells very quickly, so reserves are often as low as a few hundred tonnes. The varieties are a result of migratory beekeeping. This means that large numbers of colonies are moved by truck to locations where particular trees or plants are about to flower. Bees collect honey from only one species of flower on every foraging trip they make, and we select sites so that one particular species dominates the crop at that time. Unlike honey production in other countries, our honey is not blended., either by the bees collecting from numerous species of plants, or by us mixing several lots together. People understand that wine is more interesting as a varietal product, we believe that it is very social to be able to enjoy honey as the essence of a part of the landscape. As fast as the hives fill up with honey, new boxes are added to hives and full boxes are removed so that the honey can be extracted centrifugally in high tech , stainless steel equipment at a central extracting plant. The bees are then lifted back onto the trucks and moved on to the next region where flowers or blossoms are nearly ready. We never collect honey from any areas that may be affected by chemicals for crops, or other contamination. Bulk honey is very heavy, so the honey that is packed for retail is then transferred to the filling plants nearer to Sydney, or Melbourne, or in Japan or Europe, where it is transferred to sensible containers for domestic use. There most popular varieties are:
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