Great activity for couples or families, no height or fitness requirements - from 5 yrs old to 95 yrs old this is the quintessential Kiwi Honey and Bee Experience visitors love.
An educational and entertaining combination of our Spin-Your-Own Honey Tour and our Bee-a-Beekeeper tour.
The best of both experiences in a single end to end journey discovering how honey is made. From a flower into a beehive, from a beehive and into your very own jar.
Join an experienced Beekeeper to open and work a busy active hive, including passing around frames covered in 1000’s of busy bees for you to hold. Learn how these social insects thrive within a Langstroth hive - we will discuss and discover workers, drones, brood, honey comb, propolis, beeswax, royal jelly and if lucky, the Queen Bee herself.
Then we take a frame of fresh honey, and show you how to uncap, spin, filter and bottle it yourself - this includes a personalized honey label featuring a photo of you, on the jar of fresh honey you take home with you.
Great activity for couples or families, no height or fitness requirements - from 5 yrs old to 95 yrs old this is the quintessential Kiwi Honey and Bee Experience visitors love. Check out our reviews on Bookme, Google, Trip Advisor etc.
We will supply you a full length Bee Suit and Leather Gloves.
You must bring closed toe shoes with socks.
Camera’s welcome.
If it’s a hot Summer day, please dress lightly as you are essentially wearing overalls, if you can dress in shorts and a t-shirt that would be ideal.
All prices are shown in NZD ($)
Very informative and a fun activity for the whole family. Nick was knowledgeable, very friendly and patiently answered all our questions. We learnt a lot about beekeeping and we all had a wonderful time during the whole session. Honey was so delicious and each of us was given a small bottle of honey that we collected ourselves. It was a great experience. Highly recommend to others.
A very informative but fun experience. Suitable for the whole family. Learnt so much. Honey was delicious too. Would definitely recommend.
This workshop was so informative. All questions were welcome. The amount of everything we did hands on was well worth the price.
Nick really took the time to give me a great experience, answering lots of questions and altering the "plan" with a custom, hands on tour as it was too cold to open up the hives the day I went. This is a very homey, local experience - it's not a polished "tour-bus" visit. Expect to get your hands sticky and to taste a lot of different honey! The shop has an amazing variety of honeys and they are much less expensive than if you were buying them in town.
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Cameron from Australia wrote on 17 October 2023
Amazing
Such a great experience. Very informative and very kind. Can tell the host loved what he was doing.