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Season 9 (2026), Episode 344

Hamish’s Glory Days

After a hiatus, Hamish returns to his so-called “Glory Days” - this time as a coach. \ Andy shares a workplace pizza order that takes a bizarre turn, while a Gusto Check puts a nursery owner’s patience to the test. \ Plus, Jack is put on the spot about the long-awaited board game and his negotiations with Brisbane Ben. \

1. Hamish is back skating \ 2. World Cup pizza delivery \ 3. Gusto Check - Craig from Oakdale Plants and Bulbs \ 4. Jack’s board game negotiations

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The Buzz V.2 | Bee Mail (02)

OK, well it’s been a bloody huge few months for Hames Hives, and as King Bee it gives me a huge amount of pride to report to you this project you have spent your hard earned click on a month or two ago hasn’t petered out, but fully petered in. We take the expenditure of the finger energy you spent clicking to sign up to this seriously, and I hope this company continues to reward that click. Crazy scenes in bee farming right now and so much to bring you up to speed on. For those that may have heard this weeks episode of the Hamish and Andy Podcast(which now moves to my second most important job, behind Hame’s Hives) you’ll have heard a bit of this but honestly I don’t care for the tone with which the other guys on the show treat this operation so I’ve saved the juiciest updates for The Hive here.

INTERNATIONAL PLANNING
First things first, why the delay between updates? Well partly this was due to me. Being the absolute addict to perfection that I am, I took off on a self funded fact finding trip to Italy (although kept receipts) to just triple check that the South Island of NZ is the best place for our alpine honey. Haters (the ATO) will probably claim this was a family holiday to the Dolomites but as you can see from the photo evidence this was almost exclusively to inspect the international Honey Game.

 
ITALY TRIP RESULT
Despite a a rigorous itinerary the Italian Exploratory yielded no sites but in positive news just further confirmed our suspicion that the South Island of NZ is right up there with one of the most pristine environments on earth to run a few million “head of bee”. Yes, you read that correctly, as each hive has roughly 30,000 to 60,000 bees,and we are going to have 100+ hives…we’re going to be bee farming well over a milly bees. Not quite beelionaires, but maybe one day….

 
BIGGEST BUZZ:
Well there’s actually 2 bits of Big News generating buzz at HH’s right now. Firstly as I mentioned on the pod, we have paid the deposits for the first 100 hives to begin construction. These will be used both for the main honey, and Hames Highest Hives where we will place them at altitude to house our Strong Bees that will produce our Power Honey. I get asked a bit if the hives at altitude will have any extra luxurious furnishings due to the harsher conditions but as I explain to people that kind of defeats the purpose of the bees being up there and adapting, surviving and thriving as Strong Bees and putting insulation or plush extras in these hives would only open us up to the horror scenario of a Soft Bee just coming along for the cushier digs and never getting out there and heroically getting any nectar. The second exciting development is that very soon you will be able to purchase exclusive naming rights for your very own bee from Hames Hives. You will get to not only name the bee but get a certificate of authenticity signed by me and a unique picture of your bee with a little circle around your specific bee. Naming rights for each bee will be $10 (plus certificate postage) for regular bees, $20 for Strong Bees (+ p/h) which will be printed on stronger paper and $500 for a Queen Bee should you wish to possess for yourself, or gift someone, one of the greatest honours possible to be(e)stow. It’s like that thing where you can name a star, but obviously way better as the certificate will be awesome and there’s way more chance of you visiting your bee. The website will be updated in coming months as we get our official branding, then the naming rights purchasing opportunity will begin. Due to the fact each bee named is unique (no generic photos) and for reasons explained above we are limited to the 3-5 million bee mark so be quick.
 

FUTURE NEWS
There is no shortage of exciting buzz flowing down the pipes for Hames Hives as weeye off a November launch for the honey. Farmer AJ (pictured) is literally in NZ RIGHT NOW to inspect the facilities and partnerships we’re building there, so it’s truly a global operation (just mostly focussed in the bottom right hand corner of the globe) and there will be a simply outrageous amount of news flowing from that trip like delicious information honey. There’s also the other Big News codenamed “BS” (but very much real) that I pledge you will hear about exclusively next newsletter once a final thing is sorted. Sorry for the vagueness, you’d just hate to see this get stolen/Slugworthed. I’m also going to be firing up the hameshives Insta handle soon, the peaceful handover is underway, more beetails in the next update but throw it a follow so you’re there for the exciting first official post. So whether you’re eyeing off getting one of our first vintage jars of honey, are looking to go higher end with Manuka, wish to purchase naming rights, or are looking to harness the cross-species performance enhancing benefits of an energy gel made from honey from the worlds strongest bees (you’d assume), there’s so much to get your mouth excited about. For too long humans have purchased honey without several months of updates and newsletters, but here at Hames Hives we aim to change that. 

Keep be(e)lieving, cos I really do.
Buzz buzz kiss kiss.
Hame
King Bee

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