Tasting. Tour. Tea (or coffee + fresh sourdough)

Hosted by Bowral Beekeeping

Join us for a tour of the honey farm, get up close to the bees wearing a veil, learn about bees and THEN enjoy morning tea on the terrace for a guided honey tasting with fresh sourdough.

Cost:
It’s $38 per person, ideally booked in advance as we often run at full capacity (32x people).

What you’ll do:

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.

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.

Please note: Public dates for this class require at least 8 guests to run. In the unlikely event that we don’t reach this number, we’ll cancel the class; in this case we’ll inform you and allow you to get a refund or reschedule, so please watch your email/SMS one day prior to the class.