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HONEY FUNDRAISER

Being registered beekeepers, Errol and Julie have a Honey Stall that is often used by schools at Fetes and Open Days to supplement the school’s Fundraising.

Perhaps your school may want to make that extra $100 or so on their special day, or conduct a Honey Fundraiser for $500 or more. The return to the school is 20% of the gross sales of Honey.

Or, if you prefer, Errol and Julie can fulfil Honey Orders for the Students and Staff when we visit for an incursion at the School for Prep to Year 4 classes.

There is always a variety of honey flavours to choose from, and the honey is packed in industry standard food grade PET containers.

Honey Bees are Important Pollinators

Pollination is the movement of male pollen to the female part of the flower (stigma), the first step in successful seed and fruit production by the plant. Self-pollination is when pollen is transferred from the anther to the stigma within a single plant.

Cross-pollination is the transfer of pollen from one plant to the stigma of another plant. Once the plant has been pollinated, the male pollen contribution fuses with the seed in the flower’s ovary, the process known as fertilization. After fertilization, the fruit and seeds develop and mature.

Some plants, (for example grasses), produce light pollen grains that may be carried by the wind or water from plant to plant. Other plants need help from insects, birds, or bats for successful pollination. Without this assistance, fruit and/or seeds would not be formed. Examples of Honeybee pollinated crops include pumpkins, watermelons, citrus and apples. Honey bees can be easily managed, moved around and are known to exploit a wide variety of crops.

While a worker Honeybee is in a flower gathering nectar, pollen from the anther often sticks to her hairy body. Because the bee  visits a number of the same type of flower in a patch, she will rub some of the pollen off onto the stigma of another flower and complete pollination. Some flowers such as orchids have elaborate mechanisms to make sure bees are dusted with pollen when they visit.

An apple for the teacher

from the bees!

When you go to the grocery store, there are lots of different apples that you can buy; Red or Golden Delicious, Granny Smith, Jonathon, Pink Lady.

Each variety of apple has a different shape and color, and a different flavor. Did you ever wonder where apples come from? Actually, apples start as flowers on the apple tree. Without the help of bees though, the flowers would bloom and then wither and drop without ever having a chance to become an apple.

For a flower to become an apple, the pollen that is produced by the flowers on one apple tree is transferred to the flowers on another apple tree by the Honeybees.

Errol and Julie, their daughter Rachel, at a School Fete,  with their Bees and Honey.

2012 Bookings are OPEN

“IT’S A BUG’S LIFE” or “FROM FARM TO TABLE”  for 2012 should be booked now. 

Many Year 2 Teachers find this Presentation an invaluable diagnostics tool for YEAR2NET validation.

PREP presentations are becoming extremely popular, and the wide variety of MiniBeasts brought to the PREP classroom keep the children enthralled with their actions.

The Goliath and Titan Stick Insects, Twiggy and Trini, along with the Spiny Leaf Insect, Tippi, can be handled by the children.

The Farm to Table Honey extracting and Tasting involves the children, being dressed up as the Beekeeper and operating the Honey Extractor, and of course, everybody can have a taste.

Students in Classroom for Presentation

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