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Monday 08:00 - 18:00 Tuesday 08:00 - 18:00 Wednesday 08:00 - 18:00 Thursday 08:00 - 18:00 Friday 08:00 - 18:00

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Fish Hoek Farms

Fish Hoek Farms is a local business all about brewing, growing, harvesting, extracting and sowing.

We offer great services and educational workshops in Cape Town. Our online shop is open 24/7 and all our products are tested by one of our farmers.

09/07/2025

Vital Beekeeping Information day being held at Elsenberg Agricultural Training College, 12 July 2025.

03/07/2025

In the winter (May to July) we rest with the bees. Sothat in August when Spring maintenance starts we are ready to get back out to the bees.

While we rest we read, we clean the workshops and honeyroom and do maintenance on our equipment.

This morning we read that the preliminary research is out on the honeybee deaths in the USA, here is the article:
https://www.science.org/content/article/scientists-identify-culprit-behind-biggest-ever-u-s-honeybee-die

29/05/2025

On the 20th of May we celebrated them - thank you!

"Hint of lemon blossom, touch of the hawthorn. Some gum though not too tart. Only the bees in some brood chambers told these flavours apart. Badger shuffled back slowly and sat in his chair with a beautiful sigh and thousand mile stare. These pleasures so simple, such value beyond money. The wealth & wisdom to sense the sublime in such as honey."

28/05/2025

We made a new batch of Audrey's Lotion Bars (40g). The packaging came together just right. Special thanks to the expert guidance of Eclipse print in Cape Town for the labels and logo stickers.

Each batch is made with beeswax and raw honey from our apiary and natural ingredients sourced from .

Very limited stock - only got 11 bars out of this batch, made with love and we have handwritten the ingredients on each label because it felt just right.

Find them in the farm shop here:
https://www.fishhoekfarms.com/product-page/audrey-s-travel-lotion-bar-40g

27/05/2025

It's a beautiful 19⁰C in Fish Hoek today. The perfect weather to do a quick bee forage species identification and plant some indigenous winter flowers that will bloom around August.

If you want a pollinator friendly garden, don't put out cut fruit or sugar water - plant flowering plants.

SANBI has an excellent Beeplants book, thats tells you exactly what you need to know about the plants that feed our bees and other pollinators (it is a free pdf download):
https://www.sanbi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/2016_Strelitzia37.pdf

24/05/2025

In October 2024 at the Western Cape Beekeeping Associations Mead Making workshop, we made some traditional mead (Way easier than we thought!). And on the 17th of May 2025 we got some amazing feedback and input from Dr. Ernst Thompson from on how it tastes and some trouble shooting tips.

We have some work to do but we are on the right track and excited to implement his tips and suggestions on the next batch.

Want to try make your own batch of traditional mead? Click the link below:
https://samead.co.za/how-to-make-mead/

28/04/2025

We are doing some exciting work at our apiary with UCT. We are surveying and identifying the species that the bees get to forage on.

Admittedly we have not done line transects in many years. It was super doing some conservation/beekeeping work. Thank you for letting us be part of your study.

18/04/2025

Pink is my favourite colour! Pink pollen stored away for Winter at our apiary. How special!

08/04/2025

We helped these girls out of a fire hydrant last week. And it was just in time, as they would have been flooded by todays 40mm downpour.

Sadly they had no food stores, so we will be feeding them through winter. They have already gone through 2 litres of feed!

23/03/2025

After seeing how lovely the Cosmos grew and how much pollen the bees were getting from the flowers - we are definitely going to try growing them again next season.

09/03/2025

This past week we had some lovely harvests for clients and some where we found the bees are hungry and built up stores very slowly since harvesting them in November. This despite having forage of flowering trees and lush rows of lavender, sunflowers and fynbos in the same gardens.

We are not sure what is happening, but we will keep monitoring these struggling colonies. We always advocate for natural forage, but sometimes waiting a month or a year for forage to be available is just not possible. For now we have made a collective decision with these clients to try and provide a high quality sugar syrup feed, so the bees can build some stores for winter and add more forage plant species to the gardens.

We will know within 5 days if it is helping.

12/02/2025

In South Africa, we still depend on honey bees as an essential insect to pollinate our commercial agricultural crops for the successful production of not just fruit but also seed. We do not provide pollination services, but we do feel this is an important topic.

According to the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) more than 50 different crops in South Africa are dependent upon insect pollination.It is said that this demand is set to increase over the next 10 years.

We cannot fully appreciate the value of a fruit or a seed without understanding what it took to produce it. With all the pressures on our food systems given the unpredictable changes in climate, we need to learn more about what it takes to get food on our tables. Because the actual cost is bigger than we think, and the cost is not money.

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Fish Hoek

Opening Hours

Monday	08:00 - 18:00
Tuesday	08:00 - 18:00
Wednesday	08:00 - 18:00
Thursday	08:00 - 18:00
Friday	08:00 - 18:00

Telephone

+27832903686

Website

http://www.fishhoekfarms.com/

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