08/08/2026
🐝🍯 A Very Special Milestone for Golden Goodness — Ekka 2026 🏆
We honestly don't know how to put this feeling into words. ❤️
Golden Goodness has won FOUR placings at Ekka 2026 — in the 150th anniversary year of the Royal Queensland Show! 🏆🥈🥉🥉
For a small family honey business like ours, this is a huge achievement and an incredibly proud moment.
Our results were:
🥈 2nd Place — Liquid Honey, Standard Colour Light Amber
🥉 3rd Place — Liquid Honey, Standard Colour Light Amber
🥉 3rd Place — Liquid Honey, Standard Colour Golden
🏅 4th Place — Yellow Beeswax
I still remember the moment I first checked the results online.
I looked at the list, and then I saw “Golden Goodness.”
For a few seconds, I honestly couldn't believe what I was seeing. I checked it again… and again… and again.
“Is this real?” I kept asking myself.
“Is that really our business name?”
It was one of those rare moments in life when you just sit there completely overwhelmed — excited, emotional, proud and almost speechless. 🥹❤️
After all the hard work, all the learning, all the doubts and all the little steps we've taken since we started… there it was — Golden Goodness on the Ekka winners' list.
I don't think I will ever forget that moment.
Sometimes you work so hard for something that, when it finally happens, you need a little time to believe that it's actually real. 🐝🍯🏆
But these achievements don't belong to us alone.
First, we want to thank our wonderful mentors. ❤️
When we started our beekeeping journey, we had so much to learn. They generously shared their knowledge, guided us, corrected us, encouraged us and taught us how to understand and care for our bees. So much of what we are today has come from their guidance. We are truly grateful.
And then, our beautiful customers. 💛
We genuinely believe these achievements belong to you too.
Every jar you have bought, every kind word, every recommendation, every returning customer, every encouraging message and every time you chose to support our little business — you have been part of this journey.
Without your support, we wouldn't be here celebrating this moment.
And then, of course, there are the real winners… our bees. 🐝❤️
We can look after them, manage the hives and carefully prepare their honey and beeswax, but at the end of the day, they are the ones who created the magic.
They worked tirelessly, flower by flower, bringing us the beautiful honey and beeswax that made it onto the Ekka judging table.
Our bees won. 🐝🏆
For us, this achievement is about so much more than four ribbons.
It represents all the early mornings, long days, learning, mistakes, hard work, patience and love that have gone into building our business from the beginning.
We are still a small business, doing things on a small scale and putting our heart into every jar. So to see Golden Goodness among the winners at Ekka during its 150th anniversary feels almost unbelievable.
We are thrilled, humbled, proud and incredibly grateful. 🥹❤️
From our little hives to the 150th Ekka… what a journey, and what a memory to treasure forever.
🍯🐝 Golden Goodness — small business, big dreams, grateful hearts. ❤️
Ekka 2026 — we will never forget this one. 🏆✨