Peak Crossing, Queensland
Two generations of it
Murray Arkadieff keeps over 1,400 hives out of Peak Crossing and works them from south east Queensland into New South Wales and Victoria. He is the second generation to do it. His parents, Len and Mary, ran Golden Ark Honey before him.
Farmgate Honey has been trading since 2016. Most of what comes off the hives has gone out in bulk. This is the part where it stops doing that, and goes into bottles labelled with the region and the season it came from.
Murray and Megan
Two ways into bees
Murray works the hives. Megan Daley, his wife, is a teacher librarian and the author of The Beehive, a picture book about Australia's native stingless bees, published by Walker Books in 2024.
Between them they run the education side of Farmgate Honey: a working beekeeper and a teacher, in the same classroom, from kindergarten to tertiary.
Why the batch code matters
You can check us
With this season's labels, every bottle will carry a batch code. Type it in and you will get the region it came from, the season it was taken off, what was flowering, and the moisture reading.
It is the one thing a supermarket shelf structurally cannot print.
Questions
The ones people ask
Gone solid?
That's honey being honey. Sit it in warm water and it comes back.
Why a squeeze bottle, not glass?
It posts without breaking and pours without a spoon.
Why does it cost more than supermarket honey?
One family keeps the bees, extracts it in our own shed and bottles it at Peak Crossing. What you pay goes to the beekeeper.
Where do the bees go?
Across Queensland and into New South Wales, chasing whatever is flowering. The code on your lid tells you the region and the season.
Taste it
Start with the manuka
This season the manuka leads: from the Cooloola coast, lab tested batch by batch, with its number on the lid. The honey is short this year, so when it's gone, it's gone.