NZ Bees

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

The shrub doesn’t look like much. Scraggly branches, small pointed leaves, and bark that peels in papery strips. It grows on hillsides too steep for… 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 stands at the edge of a dirt road in the Kaimai Ranges, staring up at a hillside thick with Manuka scrub. The nearest… Read More »The Art of Distributing Bee 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

Pick up a jar of Manuka honey and you’re holding the life’s work of thousands of bees. Each drop represents flights across kilometers of wilderness,… Read More »The Remarkable Life of a Honey Bee: Facts That Will Change How You See That Jar

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