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What Makes a Honey Varietal
Each honey varietal has distinct qualities and characteristics - including taste, texture, color, aroma, and degree of liquidness or crystallization. Read on to find a brief summary of each of the varieties we produce, including flavor notes, description, and the time of year we harvest it. You’ll come to see that honey isn’t just honey and there’s really no such thing as ‘regular’ honey in our world.
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What is Artisanal Terroir-Driven Honey
Artisanal terroir-driven honey means you’ll never experience the exact same thing twice, but a collection of what nature has to offer in its most pure and essential form - season to season, year to year.
Holiday Honey Pairings
With the holidays right around the corner, good food is top of mind (right?!). While we don’t experience the typical White Christmas here in Hawaii, there is a distinct and subtle shift as we transition into the rainy season, around early to mid November. This time signals a slowing down and turning inward, a time of harvest and celebration...
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The Benefits of Raw Honey
You likely use it to sweeten your coffee or tea, or reach for a generous gobsmacking amount when you’re feeling under the weather, but raw honey’s uses reach far beyond the in-the-moment acute solution to feeling unwell, or satisfying that sweet tooth with something nutritive. Though, of course, we do hope you reach for raw honey in both of those moments too!
Raw honey has been a part of humankind’s natural remedy arsenal for a long time. Hieroglyphics depict Egyptians keeping bees...
Raw honey, Processed honey - What's the Difference?
In our book, there is only one honey worthy of consumption - raw, local, unprocessed, unpasteurized honey. It’s not what you’ll find at most big box stores or your nearest grocer, but that is quickly shifting as more people recognize the importance of honey quality.
Most ubiquitous, conventional honey is heated, highly processed, sourced from a variety of floral sources, and homogenized to create the standard translucent, caramel colored liquid honey found in honey bears and plastic squeeze bottles. Convenient? perhaps. The problem?...
Protecting the Honeybee Population
There are over 4,000 species of bees in North America, and they are rapidly disappearing, including the honeybee population. While not all bees product honey, the majority of these bees are pollinators, who play an integral role in plants reproduction.
Honey bees are one of the many bee populations that could be in danger of disappearing. They are becoming weaker and dying off, due to a variety of factors including colony collapse disorder. In Hawaii specifically, we are challenged with...
