Beekeeping

 

On the Little Creatures Honey Farm website, you will soon find an online shop, where you will be able to purchase beekeeping equipment and have it delivered straight to your doorstep (within South Africa only). If you live outside South Africa, we can make a plan, but contact us directly.

Eventually you will also be able to buy honey on the little creatures web shop.

 

 

 

Honey in the Western Cape

Getting Little Creatures Honey Farm up and running is lots of fun, but also lots of hard work and dedication. Our wish is to very soon be able to supply the Western Cape with the finest honey.

South African honey is often considered a megafloral honey. Honey from the Western Cape is often collected from a massive diversity of plant species. The Western Cape of South Africa is home to one of the worlds six plant kingdoms, and Little Creatures Honey Farm intends to make use of this diversity.

Setting up the website for Little Creatures Honey Farm is a bit more difficult than we had anticipated. Luckily we have a web designer working with us, or we would never get it all done. But for now, we are writing out all the details of Little Creatures, who we are, what we stand for, our services and of course how to contact us. But more than just an info page, we hope that the Little Creatures home page will work out as a business tool, where we will be able to sell our services and eventually beehives and related equipment online. 

Spring has sprung and we've caught our first couple of swarms of the season - in our own garden!  Watching bees swarming is quite increadible - one really realises how small we are compared to nature!

For more info on bees have a look at this blog

Building Frames

Little Creatures Honey Farm is a very new business, and at the moment I am busy putting together frames for the hives. Eventually we we will have 300 hives in total. I have put together a small jig so that I can put together 11 frames quickly (in 2 min). This obviously doesn't include the wire and foundation sheets.

Little Creatures workshop at the Stand, frame making

The workshop where Little Creatures Honey Farm is currently situated, is in the Strand (Western Cape) South Africa. Although it is small, it suits our needs for the time being. We are two partners co-owning this small business, Lindani and Nicholas.

Honey ready for extraction from the comb

To contact us, email us or visit our website at littlecreatures.co.za

A bit about the Western Cape

The Western Cape is home to one of six plant kingdoms in the world. We are privileged to have thousands of unique plant species endemic to the Western Cape and as such our wild flower honey tends to be mega floral honey.

The Western Cape is at the southern tip of Africa, where two oceans meet. The warm Indian Ocean flows down from Mozambique to collide with the Benguela current, surging up from the Antarctic. The meeting of these two oceans gives the Western Cape its unique climate and even more unique biomass.

Here we are fortunate to have a very special race of honey bee (Apis mellifera capensis) the Cape Honey Bee. These little creatures are well known for the worker bee's ability to temporarily lay eggs, should the queen bee be incapacitated in any way. They are also well known for an extremely high level of hygiene within the hive, which has helped them become tolerable of various hive pests and diseases, where no other bee has survived without the help of modern antibiotics.

 

To contact us, send us an email or visit Little Creatures website: http://www.littlecreatures.co.za/

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