January 2025: Monthly Meeting In Person

Check-in

Introduction & Housekeeping:
President, Ray Murray

Speaker: 

Dr Liz Barbour

CEO of Y-Trace

Firstly, a little bit about Y-Trace

Australia produces some of the finest honey in the world with the bees foraging nectar from our native forests enabling bee husbandry with minimal intervention, producing rare flavours and a health-giving product. The warm climate and Australia’s pristine forests offer a mecca for honey bee product production.

Y-Trace has been created to authenticate the beekeeper source, extraction process and quality of their honey bee products. The service is designed to support growing beekeeping and packing enterprises to establish themselves in new markets or create new products.

Y-Trace is based in Yanchep which is in the heartland of Western Australia’s beekeeping country. The laboratory is situated within a hub surrounded by other service businesses to offer a one-stop shop for a growing business.

Liz is the CEO of Y-Trace,and drives the company's mission to service the honeybee industry. Liz's experience is in botanical, plantation forestry, honey research and commercialisation.

Liz will cover:

• Y-Trace honey lab
• • The new TA test for honey bioactivity
  • What other bioactivity can be measured?
  • Development of the ISO Honey standard 
• Hive monitoring 
• Capturing your hive inspection observations - hands free!

Please join us in welcoming Liz to our January Members Meeting.

Q and A