Welcome to the first issue of The Buzz, a quarterly newsletter from Australian Beekeepers Direct.
Pure, unprocessed, unblended honey is a treat for the senses. Like wine, every honey has distinctive characters that change from season to season, and from year to year. The variety of colours and flavours in unblended honey is a veritable treasure trove of taste sensations waiting to be explored.
While much of the honey you pick up at the supermarket is blended for a consistent flavour and colour, at Australian Beekeepers Direct we believe that you can’t beat the natural taste of an all-natural product.
In each issue of The Buzz we’ll tell you a little bit more about our honey and where it comes from, as well as give you some ideas on how you can enjoy our honey at your place.
Cheers,
Kieren Sunderland
Australian Beekeepers Direct
In Season
Featured
Honey
In
the Kitchen
Meet
the Beekeeper
The Hive
Honey
& Health
Coolibah is flowering at the moment, producing fantastic honey with just the right balance of flavour and sweetness.
We expect mugga ironbark to start flowering in April, so there should be mugga ironbark honey (our featured honey this issue) on the supermarket shelves in May. Keep an eye out for it!
MUGGA IRONBARK
Mugga Ironbark is a mild honey with a sweet, floral aroma that may also contain a hint of cinnamon. When you taste it, you should detect a sweet, slightly caramel flavour.
Because it’s mild, mugga ironbark is a great substitute for white sugar – use it in tea, coffee, cooking, in fact anywhere you want a sweetener without a strong ‘honey’ flavour.
The honey comes from the mugga ironbark tree (Eucalyptus sideroxylon), one of the most reliable honey-producing trees in Australia. Mugga ironbark produces red, pink or white flowers from March through to September, during which time individual trees will flower for a few months each. These trees have a distinctive hard, dark, deeply furrowed bark and can be found from the Western Plains of NSW through to the coast. Mugga ironbark is also known as mugga, red ironbark, black ironbark and pink-flowering ironbark.
ABD Mugga Ironbark Honey Pork Spareribs & Lemon Roast Potatoes [see recipe]
This issue we talk to Alan from Wongarbon in Central West NSW. [read more]
We think bees are fascinating creatures, and we love beekeeping. Judging from the number of questions we get asked about bees, beekeeping and honey, we know you’re just as interested, so each month we’ll take you behind the scenes for a closer look at what bees (and beekeepers) do. This month we'll take a close look at who is in the hive [read more]
When it comes to honey and your health, the question no longer remains, ‘Why should we eat honey?’ but rather, ‘Why not?!’
You may already be aware of some of the wonderful health benefits of Australian honey, but did you know that honey can help you to:
• lose weight
• improve your love life
• stay young and live longer
• boost your immune system to ward off disease
• nourish your skin
• strengthen your hair and nails
• improve your digestion
• lift your mood and
• help you enjoy a good night’s sleep.Over subsequent issues of The Buzz we’ll expand on each of these fantastic side-effects, or more accurately, ‘side-benefits’ of nature’s nourishing nectar, to provide you with even more reasons to include honey naturally into your daily routine.
By Jennifer Price - (Advanced Diploma of Nutrition)
02 6885 0700
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