Local agricultural scientist Sam Redshaw is turning her lifelong passion for the “Sugar Bag” Bee into a unique and sustainable local business stocking hives and colonies for gardens, farms, schools and kindergartens.
Intrigued by her mother’s random purchase years ago at a flea market of John Klumpp’s classic guidebook to keeping stingless bees – known as ‘sugar bag’ bees because they store their honey in wax/resin pots made of propolis – Sam started studying the fascinating creatures as a teenager.
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