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During my time in South Australia I mainly was placed in Adelaide. My plan was originally to work with 3 different people there on 3 different types of set ups - but unfortunately I was unable to do as intended due to weather again. In South Australia there is a ban on lighting any form of fire if the temperature is over 36'degrees. This is because they have great problems and devastations with forest fires in and around Adelaide - especially within the hills - where the gum

In the height of New Zealand's summer season I spent 2 weeks working with Alpine Honey Co so I could learn and see the entire process of manuka honey production. Thousands of tons of Manuka honey is exported all over the world each year, with just over 1,500 tons coming into the UK and onto our super market shelves. The kiwis are incredible marketers and with the manuka plant gracing every mountainous area across the north island and various parts of the south island the plan

In Sydney I had sorted a work placement with Doug Purdie - writer of the book "back yard bees" and owner of the company "The Urban Beehive". Doug is the largest urban bee keeper in Sydney having 90 hives on top of cafes, offices, restaurants and buildings all around Sydney. The first day I went out with Doug, we drove around all his sites checking they didn't need any more supers putting on or taken off, checking queens are good and laying and checking a few swarms which he h