candlebark honey

Healthy

Cold extracted, cold filtered, raw honey. Cold extracted from the hive, which means it is not pasteurised in the process of extraction or bottling.


Our honey can contain small particles of pollen, royal jelly, propolis and wax.

Tasty

Candlebark Honey features a satisfying, pure and natural honey taste.


The cold extraction process retains natural flavours, with all seasonal subtleties, of the various nectar sources throughout the honey season.  

Our bees

Premium quality, happy bees

With hives fronting State Forest filled with Grey Box, Red Ironbark and Yellow Gum eucalypts there are ranges of nectars and changing seasonal flavours from Spring though to Autumn. 

Providing additional pollen and nectar are extensive gardens and several acres of cleared land filled with native and introduced grasses.

Grey Box

Botanical Name Eucalyptus Hemiphloia


In the Central Goldfields region of Victoria, the Grey Box flowers from late February to April/June. Although the individual trees blossom every second year, there are some that flower every year, enabling the colonies of bees to breed up in autumn and lay up winter stores, even when no actual surplus honey can be obtained from hives. 

The honey is of excellent flavour, medium density when fully ripe, amber in colour when free from other honeys, but candies rather quickly.
Red Ironbark

Botanical Name Eucalyptus Sideroxylon


In the Central Goldfields of Victoria, it flowers around February, but in most regions mainly blossoms between June and September.

The honey is of fine quality, and candies with a fine grain much like that of Yellow Gum, great yields of it are harvested when the tree flowers during suitable weather and occurs in great numbers together.
Yellow Gum

Botanical NameEucalyptus Leucoxylon


In the Victorian Central Goldfields region it is generally flowering from April through to November, producing ample nectar but little pollen.

The honey from Yellow Gum is of the finest quality, of pale-straw colour, dense when properly ripe and candies rather quickly.
Golden Wattle

Botanical NameAcacia Pycnantha

Flowers in late Winter and Spring. 

Wattles don't produce nectar so do not contribute to honey production, but are an important source of pollen for the bees.