Our family has proudly been producing quality honey products for 5 generations and over 100 years. It all started over 100 years ago, when Edward Teague Penglase, sent for a book on beekeeping called “ABC XYZ in Bee Culture” from America.  It cost 30/-.  Edward had a permanent apiary at Fernbank in Gippsland.

His son, Edward Teague Penglase Jnr, continued on the business with a great deal of success, migrating hives to distant flows using rail as a mode of transport. ET Penglase Jnr’s daughter, Edna Penglase, married Howard Callaway, who together continued the beekeeping tradition. 

Howard worked some distant honey flows, trucking hives to Spotted Gum on the South Coast, River Red Gum on the Murray River, Ironbark and Grey Box around Bendigo, and a fantastic flow that lasted months at Elmhurst. Howard and Edna were based at Bairnsdale, and raised three children, Roger, Norm and Anne. 

Roger had a love of bees from a young age and built up his own hives in the 60’s.  He bought Howard’s hives in 1967. 

When Roger first took ownership of his father’s hives, he took strong clover bees’ to Red Stringybark in North East Victoria, and enjoyed a great honey flow that kick started a successful 40 year career in beekeeping. 

In the late 1960’s, Roger Callaway and his wife Edna (nee Ballard), moved the business to Myers Flat, Victoria, where they raised their two children, Narelle and Lindsay.  The business is still based at Myers Flat today. 

Roger saw this as a central location to a good variety of beekeeping country. 

In 1992, their son, Lindsay Callaway, joined the beekeeping business.  Lindsay became a business partner when Edna, retired in 1997.  In 2007, Roger retired and the business is now owned and operated by Lindsay. 

Lindsay is building upon many of the mechanical improvements that Roger installed such as utilising a fully insulated, airconditioned curtainsider on the truck to shift bees.  Roger was one of the early beekeeper's in Victoria to utilise forklifts.

Lindsay is very focussed on the beehives being the key hub on which the business is based around.

Lindsay is married to Helen, and they have two children, Joy and Teague (named after “great great” and “great great great” grandpas’).