Friends with honey

🐝 Happy World Bee Day, Friends! 🐝

Just a simple message from me this year: in this busy and sometimes crazy world, take a moment to care for nature and always Bee Kind

Every flower planted, every pollinator protected, and every act of kindness makes a difference.

World Bee Day fun for Kinder & Preschool Kids!
You can't have a party without music 🐝
Free Resources & Music Album 🎵

World Bee Day – Music, Dancing, and Free Teacher's Resources! On Wednesday 20th May, the world celebrates our all-important pollinator friends - the bees! And you know what they say... you can’t have a party without MUSIC Get ready to crank up... 5 Fun & Simple Ideas for World Bee Day: Dress up in colourful, flower-patterned clothes - and chat about why bees need flowers to survive! Enjoy a picnic with pollinator fruits and veggies - and thank the bees for their hard work! Plant seeds in biodegradable cups - cornflowers, native daisies and l...

It’s always a little bittersweet saying goodbye to these magnificent giants 🌻

All summer long they’ve brought so much joy - not just to me, but to the countless insects that call our farm home. I’ve loved watching the steady stream of visitors: blue-banded bees, true bugs, ants, and of course my own honey bees from the apiary, all busy at work.

And just look at what they’ve created… every single seed here was once a flower, pollinated with purpose. Back in the hive, that effort lives on too - stored as bee bread (pollen mixed with nectar), helping sustain the colony through the cooler months ahead.

Nature never stops amazing me. Cycles within cycles, all connected.

I can’t wait to plant these very seeds when spring comes around again.

Super excited to be at the CRES Harvest Festival. Today we’ll be singing, dancing and learning about our friends the bees! It’s a hive of activity inside the red train - come and join the BUZZ 🐝

I’m super excited to be one of the expert presenters at this year’s Pets in the Park event at Central Park, Malvern on Sunday 22 March!

The question I’ll be answering is… “Are Bees Pets?” — and trust me, it’s going to be a cracker!

During my presentation we’ll:
👀 Close our eyes and use our imagination
😲 Discover some surprising facts about bees
💃 Learn about the famous waggle dance (and yes… there may be a waggle dance competition for humans and their fur children)

Aside from the presentation, we’ll have a market stall including:
🐝 A live observation hive so you can see real bees at work
🌼 A colourful and educational Friends with Honey display
🍯 Plenty of fun bee facts and pollinator inspiration

So if you’re free, come along and join the fun!
It’s a FREE event and it’s shaping up to be the purrfect day out for you and your animal-loving friends and family. 🐶🐱🐝
📍 Central Park, Malvern
📅 Sunday 22 March
Come and say hello — I’d love to see you there!

Are Bees Pets?
It’s a question I get asked more often than you might think!

As someone who shares her life with two very loved Australian Bulldogs and thousands of bees, I’ve been reflecting on what it really means to care for animals, nature, and the wild creatures we share our spaces with.

👉 Read the full blog here: https://wix.to/wdRvEVQ

Read more: https://wix.to/wdRvEVQ

Are Bees Pets? A Curious Question Worth Buzzing About “Bees as pets?” What a question!I’ve been invited to speak at an upcoming event celebrating all things fur, fluff and feathered - it is set to be a joyful community festival of pets in all their cuddly glory. And my topic? Bees.I have just ten minutes to wow the audience, challenge a few assum...

Peter Rabbit… pest?
How my perspective has changed!

Like many of us, I grew up loving Peter Rabbit - the cheeky, brave bunny rabbit trying to escape from the mean and grumpy Mr McGregor. But living and working on conservation land in regional Victoria has completely flipped that story.

In Australia, rabbits are one of our most damaging invasive species. They reshape landscapes, destroy crops, undermine soil and compete with native wildlife - and it’s a story we need to be talking about, especially with children.

I’ve unpacked it all in my latest blog post, exploring how rabbits arrived here, the impact they’ve had, and why education is key to protecting our unique ecosystems.

👉 Read the full blog here: https://wix.to/0z9eZqN

Peter Rabbit Is a Pest Species! How Rabbits Wreak Havoc on the Australian LandscapeIt’s the 1970s, and one of my earliest reading memories involves a very cheeky little rabbit.Peter Rabbit.He was brave, mischievous and endlessly curious - far more adventurous than his sensible sisters, Flopsy, Mopsy and Cotton-tail. And then the...

🌱 We’re super excited to be part of the 2026 Learning for Sustainability Conference! 🌱

If you’re an educator passionate about sustainability, this is a truly fantastic event that we can’t recommend highly enough. Every year, we leave feeling inspired, energised, and full of new ideas and connections - and 2026 will be Friends with Honey’s third year being involved! 🐝

✨ Expect a day full of inspiration, learning, and connection, including:
• A keynote presentation from Cate McQuillen, co-creator of dirtgirlworld and Get Grubby TV
• Engaging workshops
• Opportunities to connect with leading education-for-sustainability providers

📅 Conference Details
Event: Learning for Sustainability Conference
Date & Time: 27 February 2026 | 9.00am–3.30pm
Location: Hawthorn Arts Centre
Cost: Tickets from $80
🎟 Bookings & info: https://events.humanitix.com/learning-for-sustainability-conference-2026

We hope to see you there — it’s a day not to be missed! 🌏

Learning for Sustainability Conference 2026 Learning for Sustainability Conference for educators is on again Feb 27th 2026

Does honey have bee hairs in it? 🐝🍯 I get asked a lot of questions about bees - even some that I hadn't really thought much about until a curious mind asks: "Does honey have bee hairs in it? Read now:

There is so much more to learn! Does honey have bee hairs in it? One of the things I love most about the work I do, is the curious minds of the children I teach. Kids have an incredible fascination with the natural world. Bees, in particular, capture imaginations like few other creatures. They fly, they dance, they make honey, they work as a team; they are a supe...