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Kangaroo Island Living Honey
Things To Do Haines, Kangaroo Island, South Australia
Adventure and Outdoors Tours
Kangaroo Island Living Honey is a passionate family run business. They currently manage approximately 350 productive hives, and on a good year can extract up to 20 Tonnes of Organic honey.
Some of these hives will be on the farm and others will be on certified sites across the island. On the farm they have a Farm Gate Shop with a multitude of produce and other local products. They also run Beekeeping Tours and Beekeeping Experiences. All with the aim to produce products of the highest quality and as natural as possible.
Owners, Shawn and Anthea, love their bees and the fascinating products that they create, and look forward to sharing the bees amazing story with everyone that visits.
The business is part of their home surroundings, and so when you arrive it is a very relaxed and casual atmosphere. There are farm animals, native animals and pets to play with and will welcome all that visit.
Services
From $120 to $180
The ambiance and aroma of the hive and honey facility cannot be found anywhere else.
When you first arrive at the farm you will be ushered into the honey packing room where you will sit down and learn about the beehive, the bees in the hive and their life cycle.
Hear about the amazing products the bees produce, how and why, and once everything is discussed, Shawn, the business owner and beekeeper will help dress you up in a bee suit and take you out to one of his live productive hives.
Once the hive is open you will look at the life of the bee, everything from a day-old egg through to a bee hatching, observe their honey and pollen collection, endeavor to find the Queen, discover the unique products that bees create and collect and interact with the bees helping all to realise how important and also just how amazing they really are. Continue into the Extraction facility and see how the honey would be extracted, packed and stored.
The variety of honey flavours will then be available for tasting and then the wonderful products will be available to purchase.
Disabled Access
Carpark Family Friendly Non Smoking Pet Friendly - Enquire Public ToiletKangaroo Island Living Honey is a small family run business. All visitors are personally welcomed and catered to, this tour is very hands on and interactive for all participants.
When you arrive at the farm you will be ushered into the honey packing room where you will sit down and learn about the beehive, the bees in the hive and their life cycle. Hear about the amazing products the bees produce, how and why.
Once everything has been discussed and questions answered you will enter the extraction facility and see how the honey is removed from the frames via the extraction plant. Your guide will discuss the importance of Quality honey and the Ethical ways it is produced.
Leaving the extraction plant you will re-enter the packing room and see how the honey is packaged ready for the consumers. Then go to the shop where you are able to taste all the variety of flavors that are produced and have an opportunity to purchase products.
Disabled Access
Carpark Family Friendly Non Smoking Pet Friendly - Enquire Public Toilet
