Green propolis harvest season here in Minas Gerais — Southern Hemisphere check-in

While you northerners are drowning in nectar, a dispatch from Brazilian winter — dry season here in Minas Gerais, cool nights, almost no flow, and my Africanized colonies are on minimal inspections. But this is exactly when the famous green propolis work happens. The green comes from Baccharis dracunculifolia (we call it alecrim-do-campo), a scrubby native plant the bees visit for resin from the young shoots, not for nectar. I run plastic collector screens under the lids — bees hate the gaps and caulk every slot with propolis. Pull the screens, into the freezer overnight, then flex them and the propolis pops off in brittle green sticks. Small yields, maybe 50-100 g per colony per month in season, but buyers pay serious money, most of it ends up exported to Japan for the artepillin-C content. Anyone else's winter income based on glue instead of honey? Curious what other Southern Hemisphere folks are doing this month.