20/10/2026
Snippets from our 2025 Pollination Season 🥝🌼🐝
During this time of the year, Kiwifruit Orchard Managers hire Beekeepers to put hives in their orchards to pollinate the flowers. Those pollinated flowers then later become Kiwifruit 🥝
For us, this is our most stable income. Our orchards pay us an agreed amount per hive, we sign a contract and we get paid a month after Pollination finishes.
When selling commercial honey (which we also do), there is no guarantee when or even if it will sell. That’s less of the case with how the market is doing at the moment, but many beekeepers have struggled to sell over the years when the demand for honey was at an all time low.
We do love doing both and both have their perks. Pollination is our solid income, but honey is ultimately what we love doing and is our favourite part of beekeeping 🤩🍯🐝
