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Achieving the finest quality Manuka honey starts with the placement of our hives. Placing hives off the ‘beaten track’ far away from the polluting effects… Read More »Finest Quality Manuka Honey

Currently, our bee-keeping team manages over 1,800 beehives over New Zealand’s North Island, each hive is home to up to 60,000 bees. The job isn’t… Read More »Our Beehives

NZ Bees are members of the Unique Mānuka Factor Honey Association (membership no. 2212). The UMF Association (UMF™) is shorthand for the most comprehensive, independently… Read More »UMF Honey Association

Mānuka honey comes from bees that pollinate Leptospermum scoparium, or the mānuka bush, which grows predominantly in New Zealand and also in Australia. Other species… Read More »Mānuka – the Source of our Honey

NZ Bees Mānuka Honey is available from UMF 5+ to UMF 20+. It has a combination of strength and taste, with high levels of MGO… Read More »Our Mānuka Honey Range

Bruce Lowe and his team of beekeepers travel thousands of kilometres each year in search for the ‘perfect’ beehive location. Their search clearly pays dividends.… Read More »The Art of Distributing Hives

Our Founder and CEO Bruce Lowe is a fifth generation New Zealander. His ancestors arrived shortly after the Treaty of Waitangi was signed between the native Maori… Read More »NZ Bees Story

A single worker bee produces less than 1 teaspoon of honey during its lifetime. A worker bee lives for an average of six weeks. A… Read More »Key Facts About Honey Bees

Bruce Lowe is an engineer by trade and started the Stainless Factory in Tauranga where the company produced honey extracting and honey processing equipment. It is with… Read More »New State-of-the-art Honey Packing Facilities