What makes Elixir Special

Our Elixir Raw Honey tastes so good because we do not heat it, we gravity filter and we hand pack into glass jars.   Raw honey contains all the good things that the bees get from the flower – all the live enzymes, vitamins and trace minerals.  Raw honey also has a lower glycemic index (GI of 38 vs 65 for supermarket honey).  We do not blend our honey – the jar contains honey from a single site.

Being raw honey, Elixir is sometimes runny and sometimes set.   We could prevent this by pasteurising or heat-treating the honey. But then we'd lose the good bits - the live enzymes, and vitamins. So we prefer to provide the honey to you not flash heated for you to enjoy as it is.  So enjoy Elixir anyway it comes.  But if you insist on runny honey – then heat it gently by standing the jar in hot water.

All our bees are tended as close to organic standards as we can get.  We use benign treatments; hive materials, apiary equipment and packaging materials, to ensure our bees are healthy and our honey clean.  We only paint the outside of our hives, the inside being bare wood.  Our honey is kept at under 35°C, the temperature that bees keep honey in the hives.  We place hives under blossoming native trees.

We manage our hives carefully, ensuring careful site selection in native tree groves, provision of water, swarm and disease management. We are carbon neutral.