Please note: This offer is currently unavailable, however if you’re interested please contact us.
Gourmet Manuka Honey
From Your Own Personal Beehive…
We offer you the chance to join the handful of connoisseurs who will reap the delicious rewards of a personal hive. Rich and pure honey will be collected solely from your one hive, giving it a taste not found anywhere else. Your bees will collect the only unblended, Active Manuka Honey.
Exclusive Experience
For the first time, you can become part of the story.
Adopt a beehive for a year and become partners in collecting the delicious produce.
We’ll do all the work, and even keep you updated with photos and video. Then at the end of the season, you’ll have your very own, private label, of Active Manuka Honey.
Trace your hive’s journey, and see exactly where your honey comes from, and how it is produced and gathered.
Gourmet Honey
Manuka Honey is a unique medical honey. It is highly sought after for its health-giving properties, which are scientifically proven. It is only collected in New Zealand.
The honey you receive will be collected solely from your one hive – no blending allowed.
Normal honey is blended to provide a flavour that’s consistent, but a bit bland. Each Your Pure Honey beehive has its own unique flavour, and because you receive the product of just one hive, you will get a rich, healthy honey that nobody else has.
You can sign up for this season anytime between now and January. We recommend you do it now as the sooner you do the more of the season you’ll get experience.
The chemical-free beehives, are moved to remote sites around New Zealand to gather the best nectar from isolated native forests, far away from any sources of pollution.
This is honey with a story. It’s not just buying a health food – it’s being connected to the source and knowing that the food you consume is good not just for you, but also for the planet.
What You Get:
Your Own Hive
For a whole year, from now till June 2011 you’ll be the owner of your very own beehive. You get all the benefits. We do the sweaty work and get all the bee stings.
Lots Of Pure Honey
You get the only unblended, Active Manuka Honey in the world. Be the connoisseur and enjoy a gourmet honey that can’t be found anywhere else.
Your beehive will be in the purest locations we can find. Miles from polution, it will only collect honey from the native Manuka forests.
Personal Active Manuka Test
Active Manuka has many heatlth benefits. We’re predicting your Manuka Honey will have an activity rating of at least +12. This means it’s medical grade At the end of the season we’ll send a sample of your honey to be tested at an independent lab. You’ll get to see exactly how well your bees have done.
DVDs Of Your Beehive
There’s lots of excitement in producing your honey that can only be captured on video (especially the intrepid journey we take your beehive on). We’ll produce a short DVD telling the story and featuring clips of your actual beehive. It’s raw, guerrilla style footage as we take you on the journey.
Your Own Webpage
We’ll build a private webpage just for your beehive. You can show your friends, family and colleagues the unique story of your New Zealand beehive. We plan to update it about 8 – 10 times through the season as things happen.
Gift Giving
We can make up gift packs from your beehive. You just tell us how many jars of honey to include in each custom package, and whether you’d like a book or DVD added. We’ll do the rest.
You can also give the whole partnership as a spectacular gift. They will also be able to follow the progress of their bees through a personal website and will receive a DVD showing their beehive in its natural surroundings.
Environmental Protection
As well as being an incredibly health-giving food, the Active Manuka Honey from Your Pure Honey also has a positive effect on the environment. Each beehive provides the funds to sustain 2ha (5 acres) of natural forest. That makes a large difference to each owner’s carbon footprint.
We have two options for enjoying your own beehive…
Option One: A Full Hive Premium Partnership
This is the most exclusive level of honey available.
You’ll own the whole beehive, and you’ll get the full 20kg or 44lbs of Active Manuka Honey. (Or more if you choose – see below.) That’s 40 jars of 500gm (or 17.6oz). Each Italian glass jar will be packaged in its own box.
You’ll personally be responsible for sustaining two hectares (or five acres) of natural forest.
The Full Hive Partnership includes:
- A webpage just for you.
- A personal Active Manuka Test of your hive from DHM Labs
- Individual DVDs of your beehive. (By default we include two copies, and we can send more if you require.)
- Customised labelling and branding. It’s your beehive for the year, so we can print anything you’d like on the side (within good taste). Maybe your name, business logo, photo or family crest. You can also have labels and booklets customised for you.
- A Beautiful Photo Book. Throughout the season we’ll be taking photos and writing the story of your beehive. At the end we’ll compile it into a book. We can customise the book and dedicate to whoever you choose.
- If required we can produce a pamphlet to go with each jar describing the honey and showing where it comes from.
Plus…
We’ll immediately send you an ownership certificate and four jars of last seasons unblended Manuka Honey.
Sign Up Price for Full Hive Partnership:
USD $ 2,600 – Includes Worldwide Delivery
Other Currencies:
• NZD $ 3,490 – Includes New Zealand Delivery and GST
• AUD $ 2,650 – Includes Australian Delivery
• GBP £ 1,690 – Includes Great Britain Delivery
• EURO € 2,100 – Includes European DeliveryCurrently unavailable.
If you’re interested please contact us.
If the full beehive is too much, we also offer a partial option.
Option Two: A Part Share Beehive Partnership
This is a more affordable option, while still experience the joys of having your own hive.
You’ll own a share of the beehive, which is 3kg or 6.6lbs of Active Manuka Honey. That’s 6 jars of 500gm (or 17.6oz).
The Part Share Partnership includes:
- An individual webpage for the beehive.
- An Active Manuka Test just for your hive from DHM Labs.
- A DVD of your beehive’s story through the season.
- A pamphlet to go with each jar describing the honey and showing where it comes from.
Plus…
We’ll immediately send you an ownership certificate and a jar of last seasons unblended Manuka Honey.
Sign Up Price for Part Share Beehive Partnership:
USD $ 390 – Includes Worldwide Delivery
Other Currencies:
• NZD $ 445 – Includes New Zealand Delivery and GST
• AUD $ 370 – Includes Australian Delivery
• GBP £ 260 – Includes Great Britain Delivery
• EURO € 320 – Includes European Delivery
Currently unavailable.
If you’re interested please contact us.
Customised Ownership or Bulk Supply
Alternatively we can do a customised partnership or bulk delivery.
If your needs don’t exactly fit the above two options, we’re happy to help with customising for you.
Talk to us about a partnership size to suit you.
We also can arrange wholesale and bulk orders. Perhaps you want a private label for your business. You can retail, use it as a promotion or a lovely gift. We specialise in boutique labelling, and can make the honey uniquely yours.
See our Manuka Honey Suppliers Page or contact us to talk more about this option.
Common Questions About Owning A Beehive…
Now can you be sure there will be honey?
We just about always get at least 20 kg of honey per beehive. In the very unlikely event that your hive produces less, we will top your 20 kg from a nearby hive.
What about the air miles on the honey?
Obviously there are significant air miles if you live a long way from New Zealand. However this is well and truly offset by the 2 hectares of native forest that each beehive provides for.
We tried to do the maths on how much carbon is produced by sending the honey overseas and then how much is counteracted by the forest. We found there were too many complications and guesses involved to give an accurate answer. The best conclusion we could arrive at is that this honey definitely has a positive impact on the environment. (If anyone can help us with this please contact us.)
Isn’t that a lot of money?
The value of the honey is great. Nowhere else can you get unblended Manuka Honey and the opportunity to own your personal hive, complete with website, photos and video. Also don’t forget the prices include international shipping.
If it’s still too much for you, consider a part hive, or order individual jars.
How can I trust you?
First of all, we’re very transparent. We make our clients as much a part of our honey production as possible. See our honey story, watch video, or contact us and ask your questions.
Second, see what some of our clients say about us.
Third, see what the press is saying about us.
Fourth, take a look at the lab results our honey gets.
I try to buy local produce, why should I have my own hive in New Zealand?
We understand and the support the movement to eat local food. For some people NZ isn’t very local! We think of Your Pure Honey as “local +.” Please support your local bee keepers and eat honey you source locally. And also, have your own beehive in New Zealand. (We’re putting some hives into our orchard at home, as well as having Manuka from these hives for our personal use.)
There are some things you just can’t get locally, and Manuka Honey is one of those. To get the health benefits of Manuka Honey from something else, you’d probably be buying a pharmaceutical product which certainly wouldn’t be local.
Isn’t June a long time to wait?
We realise June is a long time to wait to get your honey. So, when you sign up we’ll send you some of last seasons honey immediately to keep you going while you watch the progress of your hive.
Plus if you run out while you’re waiting you can order some more, at a specially discounted partners price.
How It Works
Once you sign up this is what will happen:
- We’ll confirm your partnership by email. (And you can contact us anytime to ask questions about your bees, honey, or just what the crazy weather is doing in New Zealand.)
- Your beehive will be picked out and allocated to you.
- We’ll send you an ownership certificate in the mail and you’ll also get some of last seasons honey right away.
- A private website will be set up so you can follow your hive. We’ll update this approximately eight to ten times through the year.
- In November well move your hive to the Eastern Apiary to start gathering honey.
- In January we’ll move it across the country to the Western Apiary to collect a second harvest of honey.
- Depending on the weather and the season, we’ll collect the honey in March or April.
- Your honey will be extracted, filtered and creamed then put into glass jars.
- You should be receive your honey by the end of June.
Our Guarantee
The Total Or More Guarantee
Simply put, our guarantee says your must be totally satisfied, or more, with the service you receive from us.
If we stuff up, or you’re not pleased, we’ll work to make you happy.
Personal Care Means Limited Numbers
The number of hives that we can be personally devoted to is very limited. Collecting, extracting each beehive has to be done separately. Plus, individual photography and cinematography is required for the media creation with each hive. The whole process is very labour intensive. Signing up today is the best way to secure your own beehive.
