The History of Gowanlea gold honey
Gowanlea Apiaries was started by an Englishman, James Corson. Having trained as a bee-keeper in Canada, James worked the New Zealand summers and eventually fell in love with the country and its relaxed way of life. He bought a small farm, Gowanlea, and ten bee-hives. A decade later, with a wife and two young sons, the farm has grown to seventeen hundred acres of tussock hill country and 1700 beehives.
Gowanlea is one of the South Island's oldest sheep stations to be settled by the pioneers of the late 19th Century. It is neighbour to Steventon, the settlement described by Lady Mary Barker in her wonderful book Station Life in New Zealand and after whom the surrounding tussock covered range of hills is named.
Gowanlea gold comes to you from one of the purest honey producing regions in the world. Our philosophy is that 'what nature produces is best'. We are proud to be able to offer you a product that has had limited processing and maintains the original qualities and goodness of the sweet nectars gathered by the bees from our surrounding hills and valleys.