Hooray! Finally a spell of good weather has brought in our best harvest in 3 years. Expect to see Wildflower Honey and Fireweed Honey in our tasting room this September. We are busy bringing back honey, and getting our bees down from our out yards before the bears get through our defences! All of [...]
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Tugwell Creek New Release of Solstice 2011 has a new look!
We are proud to release our new 2011 Vintage of Solstice Metheglin. This vintage is slightly drier than the 2010 finishing at 2 degrees brix. Still full bodied with lots of honey character! This is easily paired with seafood, spicy dishes, poultry, and cream pastas. A favourite mead of many, this is an old family [...]
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Honeybee Awareness Day May 27, 2012
Honeybee Awareness Day is all about education. Through education we can help our lovely bees survive in a world that is getting harder for them. This is a day that we set aside to invite other beekeepers, The Land Conservancy’s Pollinator Program, and families together to share our knowledge and empower all of us to [...]
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Pairing Tugwell Creek’s Meads
Many people struggle with how to pair meads with foods. In our case, this is easy. Our meads are more wine like and tend to be on the dryer side. Most popular with the holiday meal are either Melomel or Metheglin. MELOMEL is a fruit meads and pair well with spicy foods, seafood, poultry, and [...]
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Honeybee Awareness Day May 29th, 2011
That’s right, a day to celebrate the humble bee. At Tugwell Creek Honey Farm and Meadery we will be having a special day of educational and fun activities to show what bees do for us and what we can do for them. Did you know that one out of every three bites of food we [...]
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Want to learn more about Mead?
Come and see the most thorough mead seminar yet in Vancouver. Find out the history of mead, how to pair it, characteristics to look for in mead. All this at the beautiful new Legacy Liquor Store on May 2nd. Please open the invitation and see what all the excitement is about. You must RSVP by [...]
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Moving towards organic treatments in our bee hives
Happy Spring! As we see the bees emerging and hear that losses of bees on Vancouver Island are high we thought we would talk a bit about what we are doing to try to make a change in the fate of our bees. We have been trying to find effective alternatives to using pesticide strips [...]
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Best chance to try Island Wines
The Wine Islands Spring Tasting Event is happening this Tuesday April 19th, 2011 in Victoria the Fairmont Empress Hotel. So far there are 27 wineries, cideries, and meaderies tasting. This will be the best opportunity to try many island wines in one place at one time. Most wine makers will be present and able to [...]
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Work with us….
Job Description: Tugwell Creek Meadery is looking for a new member to join our tasting room staff. We are looking for an enthusiastic person with a passion for wine and working with the public. Candidates must be articulate, self-motivated, customer service oriented, and must be able to work Sundays with the occasional extra [...]
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