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International award-winning honey. Up with the world’s best...
Our Rewarewa Honey won Grand First Prize out of over 600 entries from across the world to become the World’s Best Tasting Honey in 2021, then gained Finalist (Top 30) in 2023. Our Tāwari and Pua-ā-Tane Wild Forest Honey have also got to the final of this contest. Read more here
Our Raw Kānuka Honey with its delightful natural creaminess, won the Category for Creamed Honey at the World’s Best Tasting Honey Contest 2022 held in Ashville, USA. Read more here
We’re one of only 200 companies in New Zealand to have gained Certification by B Corp. Find out how we did this here
We’re proud to join top New Zealand companies to represent our nation in export markets by gaining a NZ FernMark License. Find out how we did this here.
We’re from Ruatāhuna at the Heart of Māui’s Fish – the North Island of New Zealand. The purest place on earth.
We have built our honey business to sustain our people with jobs and good health, and to keep bees for what they do for our place and this planet. We specialise in producing the best native tree honeys from our vast untouched forests in Te Urewera – homeland of our tribe Tūhoe.
Check out the video for more about Manawa Honey and our founder, the Tuawhenua Trust.
Tikanga - Our Values
We are driven in what we do by a number of core values:
Whenua
Sustainable Land Use
People and the land in harmony, forever.
Tangata Whenua
Our People of the Land
Creating jobs for generations of our people of Tūhoe.
Manaaki
Sustainable Beekeeping
Practices based on natural forest sources of nectar and pollen.
Mauri
Our Forest Quintessence
Looking after our indigenous ecosystems in Te Urewera.
Manawa
Honey from the Heart
Producing honeys with great care. It’s honey made with love.
I’ve just had your Pua-A-Tane wild forest honey for breakfast. Took me back to how honey tasted in my childhood.
Susan James, Auckland NZ.
Pua-a-Tane Wild Forest Honey. Absolutely DELICIOUS, subtle flavors coming through of the different floral collections. Seriously good. I’m a Pohutukawa or Manuka honey fan usually. But this is the gold as far as I am concerned. Nga mihi, Sue.
Devin O’Callaghan, Auckland, NZ
I came across Manawa honey online while searching for a low-glysophate, raw honey. I will never look back! I may have a slight addiction to honey and have had a lot of different honeys from supermarkets ranging from Manuka honey, to raw honey, clover honey, and even honey still in the comb. I bought the…
Liz McGregor, Timaru, NZ
Kia ora Busy Manawa Honey bees, Thank you so much for sending your wonderful honey and thank you for putting the instructions on the package… I thought you might be interested to know that the honey I received from you last year all went to Zambia. My sister was back here for a ‘holiday’ – 1st…