Become a Beekeeper

Plant for Pollinators

Want to help the bees in your backyard? We’ve created a list of bee-friendly plants perfect for the Northern Rivers. Join our mailing list and get a free PDF guide full of flowers, shrubs, and trees that will keep your local pollinators buzzing

Plant for Pollinators – Free Northern Rivers Bee-Friendly Guide

One of the simplest and most powerful things you can do to help our bees is to plant with pollinators in mind. To make it easy, we’ve compiled a carefully curated list of bee-friendly flowers, shrubs, and trees specifically suited to the Northern Rivers region.
Whether you’re in town or on acreage, you can create a blooming haven for native and European bees by choosing the right plants for your space.
Join our mailing list and we’ll send you:
A free PDF Bee-Friendly Planting Guide for the Northern Rivers
1. Seasonal planting tips
2. Updates from the SaveByronBees campaign
3. Opportunities to get involved with community bee projects
4. It’s the easiest way to get started supporting pollinators right where you live.
Mailing List Signup Form
1. Get Your Free Bee-Friendly Plant Guide
  - Full Name:
  - Email Address:
  - Suburb/Postcode (optional, helps us tailor updates):\
  - Are you a current or aspiring beekeeper? (Yes / No / Thinking about it)
    ☑️ Yes, please send me the free PDF guide and sign me up for future updates.

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Host an Apiary

Got land? Help the bees and boost your local pollination by hosting a CloudWood apiary on your property. We’re looking for committed landholders with good access and forage. In return, you may receive seasonal honey, wax—and maybe even a bottle of mead.

Host a CloudWood Apiary – Partner with the Bees

If you own a farm, acreage, or large property in the Northern Rivers region and want to contribute meaningfully to the environment, hosting a CloudWood apiary could be the perfect fit.
Our apiaries provide vital pollination to surrounding ecosystems and agriculture. In return for your commitment, you’ll enjoy benefits like:
1. Improved pollination across your property
2. A small share of honey, beeswax, and occasionally small-batch honey mead
3. Being part of a local movement to protect and strengthen bee populations
This is a long-term partnership, and we carefully assess each location. Properties with good vehicle access, nearby water sources, and diverse vegetation within a 2 km radius are ideal.
Simple Expression of Interest Form
Host a CloudWood Apiary – Expression of Interest
1. Your Details:
  - Full Name:
  - Address:
  - Mobile:
  - Email:
2. About Your Property:
  - Does the site have good vehicle access? (Yes / No / Please describe)
  - Is there a reliable water source close to the proposed site? (e.g., dam, tank, creek)
  - What kind of vegetation is in the area within 2 km? (e.g., native bushland, macadamia, citrus, pasture, forest—if known)
  - Is the site or access subject to flooding

Enjoy a Native Bee Hive

Bring your garden to life and support local biodiversity by hosting a hive of stingless native bees. These gentle, low-maintenance pollinators are perfect for homes, schools, or businesses—no stings, no fuss, just sustainable beauty. Very limited numbers available—reserve your hive today.

Turn Your Backyard into a Bee Haven—With Stingless Native Bees

Create a thriving, sustainable ecosystem right outside your door with your very own hive of stingless native bees. Unlike honey bees, these tiny native heroes don’t sting and require almost no maintenance—making them perfect for families, schools, or anyone curious about nature but unsure where to begin.
By hosting a native beehive, you’ll:
1. Support local pollination for gardens, fruit trees, and native plants
2. Promote biodiversity and ecological balance
3. Enjoy a peaceful, sting-free pollinator presence
4. Inspire learning and connection with the natural world
5. We’ll take care of everything—supply, delivery, and installation—so you can relax and enjoy watching your hive thrive. These hives are not honey producers, but their value lies in their role as sustainable pollinators, quietly doing critical work to keep our ecosystems functioning.
6. Please note: numbers are strictly limited due to hive availability and seasonal breeding cycles.
7. If you’re ready to create a bee sanctuary at home and help secure the future of our native species, now’s the time.
8. $550 with $75 donations to the medicine fund

Become part of the solution—start your own backyard beehive with a fully set-up FlowHive from Byron locals. We’ll supply, paint, and install everything you need, including your first colony of bees. You add your creative touch, and we’ll even check in during the first few weeks to make sure all is well. Plus, $100 from every setup goes to the Bee Medicine Fund to help local beekeepers protect their hives.

Start Your Beekeeping Journey—Right From Your Backyard

Join the movement to protect pollinators and become a part of the solution with a beautiful backyard FlowHive setup—tailored, assembled, and installed by locals who care about bees as much as you do.
We make it easy:
1. You’ll receive a complete FlowHive kit, fully assembled and painted in a natural base coat
2. You add your own colours and creative flair
3. Once it’s ready, we’ll deliver and install your hive, complete with a healthy, thriving colony of bees
4. We’ll check back in during the first few weeks to help make sure your bees are settling in happily
5. It’s a perfect way to begin your beekeeping journey with support, style, and purpose.
6. Even better?
  1. With every setup purchased, we donate $100 to the SaveByronBees Bee Medicine Fund, helping other beekeepers in the region protect their hives from Varroa mite using DPI-approved treatments.
7. This isn’t just about keeping bees—it’s about keeping Byron buzzing.

Adopt a Queen

You can still help the bees—even if you can’t keep a hive at home. This season, you can Adopt a Queen Bee through CloudWood Apiaries. Your support helps us build and maintain critical new hives. In return, you’ll receive regular updates, photos, and videos as your queen establishes her colony.

Adopt a Queen Bee – Be Part of the Hive, Even Without One at Home

Not everyone can host a beehive—but that doesn’t mean you can’t be part of the solution.
This season, CloudWood Apiaries is expanding its honey and breeder hives to help protect and strengthen bee populations in the Northern Rivers. It’s a high-cost, high-risk time to be building apiaries, but ensuring strong local stock is essential if we’re to prevent the collapse of bee numbers in our region.
By adopting a queen bee, you’ll:
1. Directly support the creation of new hives
2. Help preserve genetic diversity and hive health
3. Be part of a tangible, local solution to a global crisis
Your queen will be placed in a new nucleus colony, and we’ll send you regular updates, including photos and videos, as she builds her hive. You’ll get to follow her journey—and her hive’s impact on the ecosystem.
It’s the next best thing to having a hive in your backyard, and it helps us maintain the critical mass needed for long-term pollinator health.
Bee Parent Details
1. Name & Email
2. Age
3. Preferred Queen name
Subscription: $55/month (50% to the been medicine fund)

Bee Medicine Fund

Support the Bee Medicine Fund to protect local bees and help registered NSW beekeepers in need. Your $77 donation provides miticide treatments for struggling hives, and you’ll receive a certificate of support and a #SaveByronBees ‘Founder Member’ bumper sticker as thanks.

Help us Save Byron’s Bees—One Hive at a Time

The SaveByronBees Bee Medicine Fund is a grassroots initiative supporting registered NSW beekeepers in the Northern Rivers region who are fighting the spread of Varroa destructor. Using only NSW DPI-approved treatment methods, we will bulk purchase essential miticides and distribute them directly to backyard and small-scale beekeepers who need them most.
With your contribution of $77, you’ll fund enough treatment to support five hives—giving vulnerable colonies a fighting chance to survive and thrive. Every dollar goes directly to the cause, coordinated by the Happy Bee nonprofit campaign.
As a thank you, each supporter will receive:
A personalised certificate acknowledging your contribution
A #SaveByronBees Founder Member bumper sticker—a bold way to show your commitment to saving local pollinators
The satisfaction of knowing your donation directly helps preserve biodiversity and local food systems in Northern NSW
This isn’t just a donation—it’s an act of solidarity with our bees and the beekeepers who care for them.
Bee local. Bee together. #SaveByronBees
Credit card Purchase: $77.00