Honey Farm Tour & Honey Tasting

Love honey? Fascinated by bees and their lifecycle? Join us for a one-hour tour of our beautiful Honey Farm on the grounds of a historic National Trust mansion in Bowral, followed by a guided honey tasting and morning tea.

We start with a tour alongside the hives: wearing a head veil, you’ll be able to safely observe the activities of the bees and hear about their remarkable lifecycle. The talk continues with a demonstration showing an (empty!) Flow Hive and the workings a modern hive.

You’ll hear about the remarkable lives of these at-risk pollinators and gain an understanding of their behaviours.

We then move to our beautiful terrace looking out across the dam and rolling hills for a guided honey tasting where you will taste 6x different floral source honeys, each with it’s own distinctive appearance, aroma, viscosity, mouth texture and taste. All of this complemented by a morning tea of fresh sourdough and leaf tea or plunger coffee.

This is a great activity for family groups, and visitors to the Southern Highlands.

At Bowral Honey Farm, every visit and experience includes a short moment of mindfulness among the bees. Tapping into a long tradition of api‑therapy, one aspect that we explore is simply being immersed in the sounds, scents, and gentle energy of a working apiary as the bees go about their lives.

During each workshop and tour, guests are invited to place a hand on the back of a hive and quietly imagine the 50,000 workers within; moving, communicating, and organising themselves through vibration, scent and sound. We then pause for a brief breathing exercise, closing our eyes and tuning in to the low hum around us. With ten hives arranged in a circle, guests stand at the focal point of the combined life force of more than half a million bees.

This simple meditation offers a powerful way to slow down, to connect with the natural rhythms of the seasons, and to experience the presence of these remarkable pollinators in a deeper, more reflective way.

Our apiary is on the grounds of Retford Park, a beautiful historic property a 5x minute drive from Bowral main street. We also have honey available after the visit.