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Kōrero: Beekeeping

Flowing with honey

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Flowing with honey

Even with the best management, honey production is dependent on the climate during spring and summer. Drought, strong winds and wet weather can all limit clover yields and, therefore, honey production. Here, Blair Dale, co-owner of Strathdale Honey of Middlemarch, celebrates a good year in 2005, after two poor previous seasons.

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Otago Daily Times

Reference: 22 March 2005, p. 1

by Stephen Jaquiery

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Allan Gillingham, Beekeeping – First bees and early beekeeping, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/15739/flowing-with-honey (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Allan Gillingham, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.