Gowanlea gold Honey - Bush, Creamed Clover, Honey Dew, Manuka, New Zealand, Deal, Kent, UK

Our Honey

Creamed Clover Honey
Silver award winner,
Great Taste Awards 2005
New Zealand clover honey is renowned for its smoothness and texture and our creamed clover honey is second to none. Our honey comes from hives spread out on the fertile Canterbury plains and on the headwaters of the azure blue Rakaia River.

It is a favourite with adults and children alike when spread liberally on fresh bread or toast for a healthy, tasty and energy-giving snack.

Honey Dew Honey
Many of the gullies and valleys in the Canterbury foothills are home to stands of the native Black Beech tree which plays host to the Beech scale insect. This insect draws sap off the sugar vessels found in the outer layers of the trees.

It absorbs nutrients from this sap but most of the sugars are excreted by the insect as little droplets and deposited like
snails' trails up and down the trunks of the trees, shining like dew in the early morning sun. The smell of the dew is sweet and draws the bees to gather it to produce our Honey Dew honey.

It is akin to maple syrup, delicious poured over pancakes or stirred into natural yoghurt or even added to hot drinks as a healthy alternative to sugar.

Our Honey ...
the Gowanlea gold range of honey

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Bush Honey
Bronze award winner Great Taste Awards 2004
Our Bush Honey comes from a mixture of high country plants that all flower at the same time but with different intensities each year. It is a slightly granulated honey that comes from a combination of the prickly Matagouri shrub, the yellow-blossomed Lotus Sativa flower with the inclusion of Honey Dew and Manuka to give it a real bite and flavour.

Use it in porridge for breakfast, spread thickly on crumpets or for a bit of 'zing' in a stir fry or stew.

Manuka Honey
Manuka is the Maori name for the New Zealand Tea Tree and the health giving and healing properties of this honey are legendary. Our Manuka comes from a 'secret spot' on the east coast near Kaikoura. It is 97% pure as there is very little else for the bees to forage on amongst the rugged country in which the Manuka plant thrives. It is an excellent dressing for wounds and burns and helped cure our 90 year old grandmother's leg ulcers where conventional dressings failed. Manuka honey reduces scarring and gives relief from stomach ulcers and soothes indigestion.

There is some talk of it dealing effectively with the MRSA superbug but we would not wish to make that claim on the Internet! Nutritionists also believe it can revive a flagging immune system and like all honeys makes a potent remedy for colds and flu when mixed with whisky, lemon juice and hot water.