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Parnell Farmers Market
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Long Bay Market, 4th Sunday
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27/09/2025
Manuka is flowering beautifully out in our region.
It actually starts in June and flowers through till mid-spring, when it gets warmer. The kanuka will follow. We are not pushing our hives early this season as we have plenty of Manuka from last season's harvest. Our hives are all in good shape for the coming flow, which hasn't hit yet. We need steady warmer temps, above 18 degrees, then it's all on!
Catch me at a market to sample our beautiful
Manuka at amazing prices
Or order online Www.mahurangihoney.co.nz
27/09/2025
A candid pic of me today at Parnell Farmers Market..
It's such a great authentic Farmers' market, and if you haven't been, you need to! A gastronomic taste experience direct from growers who travel many miles to bring good honest food to the public city dwellers, and international tourists. I have been attending this market for 6 years or so, and it just keeps getting better! Thank you Parnell 😊 🙏
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20/09/2025
Beekeeping, child's play!
Getting our wee honey Nuecs ready for the special new season Queens
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16/09/2025
Its time I showcased another honey, and this is it. My personal favourite, and I've given the bees and Pete strict instructions to replicate this batch please!
Rated 4.8, (77MGO), a 2024 batch from the Sugar Loaf in Matakana.. we can taste hints of Kanuka, Rewarewa, Pohutukawa and possibly Privit, blended within the Manuka. A soft crystallised texture adds to the mature character, a perfect everyday honey, that is available while stock lasts for just $18. I also have 1kg jars ($34) available on the weekend market stalls or email me through the website, www.mahurangihoney.co.nz
11/09/2025
Wet spring days see me making candles in my slow cooker for the weekend markets..
Beeswax is sooo precious.. A byproduct of our honey harvest and continuous scrapings at the regular inspections. They say, Bees need to consume 7 times the amount of nectar to make 1 time the amount of wax, shed in super delicate shells from their abdomens. Amazing aye ! And yes my beeswax is more expensive than our honey..
I love telling children and adults alike, to pick up, smell and feel the wax. It's the true, purest product delivered from nature, and our district.. our whenua ..
Catch me at the local markets
Saturday
Sunday, 2nd Sunday
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2nd,Sunday
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09/09/2025
I love my random garden feature!
These beautiful honey boxes sits on my front patio, as the wintery trees turn back to life, and spring warms. The empty excess comb was removed from our home site hives, emptied of nectar over winter by the bees, and soon they will be placed back on the hives and refilled.. as our new season kicks in. It's a constant continuous cycle, but no two seasons are ever the same!
31/08/2025
Welcome, spring..
28/08/2025
These hives are sitting up on our Argentine ant pellets. Our first checks after winter, hives are looking great and no A Ants to be seen, just the normal black ants.
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26/08/2025
I joined Pete today, being my first time out with him, checking the hives after winter. Spring is certainly in the air and our girls are looking good ..
The poplars are all still wintery and bare, and we're picking our days, but there is alot to do..
Taking old mouldy comb out of the brood box and putting fresher clean frames in, putting honey closer to the laying Queens, scraping the base boards out, and cleaning down thick old frames so they can be refreshed and rebuilt .. Putting our mite treatments in and sharing spare honey frames around.. Doing our AFB checks ✔️
21/08/2025
It's the last few days of winter, and Pete's done his first inspection.. our home site hives are looking good and strong and the Queens are active with more brood than expected. Probably because they went through winter with so much excess honey!
Topping up the Oxalic strips for mite control which have been in all winter, moving out empty old frames and putting excess honey closer. We're hoping our other Apiaries are looking just as good, though the home block is spoiled for choice.
This time of year, Pete will start later in the day as it warms, and finish early, around 4pm before it gets too cool, and no beekeeping unless it's a nice warm sunny day..
16/08/2025
Rain or shine, our weekend markets are the heartbeat of our business. We love catching new customers and cherish the returning regulars..
Catch me every Saturday , most Sundays
the 4th Sunday
the 2nd Sundayvillage.market the first Sunday
For a sweet honey honey-tasting experience!
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Welcome to Mahurangi Honey, a small Beekeeping business with apiaries situated on different sites, in the beautiful Mahurangi West Peninsular, including local regional parks.
We harvest raw, pure honey in January, which is bottled directly after it has been taken from the hives. This process allows us to retain all of the fresh, natural properties and goodness found in this delicious golden nectar. We sell our honey directly to the public at local Farmers Markets in Orewa and Parnell and we also supply a few local food outlets in Orewa, Warkworth and Matakana.
We are earth conscious people who use traditional and organic Beekeeping practices, which means nothing is wasted. After harvest we clean and melt the wax with a slow cooked smelter; I make wax based balms, polishes and food wraps, which are also available at our market stall. We dabble in Mead making too, using second grade honey and enjoy experimenting with different flavours sourced from home grown fruits and berries - we are perfecting the brew each season!
Beekeeping has been a life long hobby turned lifestyle, we are passionate about and committed to. It has now turned into a semi commercial business with hives situated close to home, reducing the carbon footprint... Beekeeping keeps us busy and keeps things simple.
We feel very fortunate to be able to do something so beneficial to the well-being of others, ourselves and our world. And most importantly, we do it all for the love of bees...
