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Who we are, what we do, and where Murray has been heard and seen.
The short version
Farmgate Honey
- Who Murray Arkadieff, a second-generation beekeeper. His parents, Len and Mary, ran Golden Ark Honey.
- Where The shed is at Peak Crossing, Queensland. Over 1,400 hives, worked from south east Queensland into New South Wales and Victoria.
- Since Farmgate Honey Australia Pty Ltd, trading since 2016.
- What Honey, comb honey, bee pollen, beeswax, and Queensland manuka from the Cooloola coast, lab tested batch by batch. Plus pollination and bee education.
- The trace Every batch has a code that opens its record at farmgatehoney.com.au/trace: the region, the season, and for manuka, the lab result.
- Megan Daley Murray's wife. Teacher librarian and author of The Beehive (Walker Books, 2024), which received a World Beekeeping Apimondia Award in 2025.
Heard and seen
Murray in the media
- ABC Radio, Conversations with Richard Fidler: Murray Arkadieff, life as a bee keeper, July 2013
- ABC Landline: beekeepers and propolis, July 2023
- University of the Sunshine Coast: propolis research, July 2023. Murray's hives near Ipswich produced "some of the most active propolis samples in the state".
- ABC Australia All Over, August 2023
- ABC News: moving the hives home from the almonds, September 2023
- ABC News: Queensland beekeepers and varroa, June 2026
- ABC Landline: varroa and pollination, June 2026
Get in touch
Ask for an interview, a visit to the shed, or high-res photos. Or email sales@farmgatehoney.com.au with Press in the subject.