Traditionally native stingless bee honey was cherished, and played a significant role in rituals, art, mythology and social life. Sharing and gifting honey was important. Honey was often used for its medicinal purposes. Native stingless bee wax was used in making spears, didgeridoo mouth pieces and for sealing pots. Some Indigenous Australians put cotton or spider […]
Many Australians entertain romantic notions about European honey bees, admiring them as little helpers that toil away to provide honey and pollinate our crops. This romance hinders awareness of the environmental harms they cause. Native stingless bees are more deserving of our affections “and not only because they don’t sting” extract from Foreword by Tim […]
All of mankinds’ food security is managed by the humble bee. The biggest threat to it – bees and food – is the greed of a select few who treat the control of food as a means of controlling us, the people, at once their greatest asset and their most undervalued resource. When Chad Kruger from the Centre of Sustaining Agriculture […]
I’ve never really liked bees. Being an outdoor loving child I suffered many stings in my youth that left me with an unsympathetic view of bees. So when I joined the Permaculture Northern Beaches committee as an education officer and heard about the Native Bee Project I was apprehensive. Fast forward 2 years and I […]
At the judging of a schools Native Bee Hive Competition hosted by Permaculture Northern Beaches at Kimbriki Eco House yesterday, I had the pleasure of meeting fellow judge and Warringah Councillor Vanessa Moskal. What an inspiring young lady, testament to the upcoming generation of young people and Warringah Council culture headed up by Mayor Michael Regan, […]
