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Welcome to cannonbee
Keeping bees in Eungella,
the land of clouds.
CannonBee is a family owned business located in the subtropical rainforest of Eungella, Queensland Australia. Eungella forms part of the longest continual stretch of subtropical rainforest in Australia.
Our journey into beekeeping started a decade ago with two hives and borrowed equipment, guided by a gentleman with over 70 years experience.
our honey is untreated, unheated and unfiltered
There is something magical
about entering a bee colony
A mixture of wonder, amazement and fear. Yet if you pick your time and treat them with respect they let down their guard and let you explore. A really enjoyable feeling is working a colony with acceptance.
Eungella is made up of many unique micro climates, within a few kilometres the landscape drastically changes from lush remnant rainforest to ancient eucalyptus woodlands. Our bees can access both locations without us relocating their hives. They can forage amongst the fungi, ashes, palms and access crystal clear water then forage bloodwood and flooded gums in the dry country. This allows us to keep happy highly evolved bees whilst harvesting high quality chemical free honey, wax and propolis. We believe that if bees are raised in natural conditions with an abundance of forage they will adapt to their environment and pathogens.
Beekeeping can be mutually beneficial to both humans and bees, we assist bees to evolve to our environment. We are dependent on our pollinators so they must not rely on us, a wild be is strong and fit for our environment.
our family
The Cannon Family
From the first taste of real honey, the feel of wax, the smell of the hive, the intricacies and complexities of the colony, these little creatures completely changed our lives.
From that moment a seemingly innocent hobby transformed our lives. Our love for bees developed into a passion and there started our life’s work, to breed a bee that is fit for our environment.
Years later with two children to raise we moved onto land amongst one of Australia’s most beautiful and naturally diverse rainforest, Eungella hosts a long list of endemic plants and animals and is the birth place of water that flows out to the Great Barrier Reef.
