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Raw honey is an unusually opaque thing to buy. The labels use words that are not regulated, the numbers on Mānuka jars come from four competing systems, and the one visual cue most people trust — a clear, evenly pourable jar — is actually a sign of processing. These pages are here so you can buy from us, or from anyone else, knowing what you are looking at.

If you have never bought raw honey before

Start with the honey guide. The two things worth knowing before your first jar are that crystallisation is good news rather than a defect, and that heat above roughly 40°C undoes most of what you paid for. The guide covers both, plus how to store it and what to check on a label.

If you are trying to decode an MGO number

The Mānuka guide explains what methylglyoxal actually is, how MGO relates to UMF and to the various brand-owned scales, and why a higher grade is more concentrated rather than better. It also says plainly which grade to buy first, which for most people is not the expensive one.

If you want to know where a specific jar came from

Every origin has its own page: Yemen, Pakistan and New Zealand. Each one names the region, the floral source, the harvest window and how the honey is extracted, and lists the jars that come from there.

If you just want a recommendation

Find your honey asks four questions about how you will actually use it and suggests a jar and a size. It takes about a minute and it will not push you towards the most expensive option.

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What is not here yet

Recipes, a coffee guide, and a harvest journal are all planned and none of them exist yet. We would rather leave the gap visible than fill it with filler.