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South West Honey Premium Western Australian Honey & Honeycomb

A little sweetness to start the day. 🍯🫐Golden French toast, fresh blueberries and a generous drizzle of South West Honey...
11/10/2026

A little sweetness to start the day. 🍯🫐

Golden French toast, fresh blueberries and a generous drizzle of South West Honey. Sometimes breakfast inspiration is as simple as good ingredients and a little honey straight from the hive.

A slow Sunday breakfast or a special start to any morning — we think this one is worth getting out of bed for. 🤍

How do you like to enjoy your honey at breakfast?

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Where our honey begins. Western Australia’s native eucalyptus trees are more than a beautiful part of our landscape. The...
09/10/2026

Where our honey begins.

Western Australia’s native eucalyptus trees are more than a beautiful part of our landscape. Their flowers provide an important source of nectar for the bees, who do their part in creating the distinctive honeys we know and love.

From blossom to hive to jar, every drop tells a story of the land it comes from.

Proudly 100% WA family owned and operated, and proud to share the goodness of our Western Australian landscape with you.

There’s something special about eating honey straight from the comb.Our honeycomb is beautiful on a cheeseboard, delicio...
08/10/2026

There’s something special about eating honey straight from the comb.

Our honeycomb is beautiful on a cheeseboard, delicious with fresh bread, yoghurt or fruit, and just as good enjoyed by the spoonful.

The bees have done the hard work. All that’s left to do is enjoy it.

As the mornings warm up, porridge might be making its way off the breakfast menu — but there’s more than one way to enjo...
07/10/2026

As the mornings warm up, porridge might be making its way off the breakfast menu — but there’s more than one way to enjoy our bee pollen. 🐝

Sprinkle it over yoghurt, smoothie bowls, fresh fruit, granola or your favourite breakfast, or add it to porridge when the cooler mornings call for it.

A little golden goodness, straight from the hive.

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Berries, banana, a spoonful of South West Honey. That's the whole recipe.The honey does the sweetening, so there's no ne...
05/10/2026

Berries, banana, a spoonful of South West Honey. That's the whole recipe.

The honey does the sweetening, so there's no need for added sugar. It also gives the smoothie a floral, rounded finish you won't get from a sweetener out of a packet.

Raw, local honey from the beekeepers who actually harvest it. Right here in Western Australia.

Tag who you're blending for this weekend. 🍓🐝

Six claims, and the reason we can make each one.Western Australian. Our hives sit in the forests of Western Australia. N...
04/10/2026

Six claims, and the reason we can make each one.

Western Australian. Our hives sit in the forests of Western Australia. Not sourced; our hives on these sites.

From our own hives. We're beekeepers before we're a brand. Plenty of honey on shelf is bought by the drum and packed under a label; ours comes out of beehives we own and work ourselves.

Raw and unheated. Heat is what undoes honey. Glucose oxidase, the enzyme the bees add, is heat-sensitive, so we don't heat ours.

Every batch tested. Independently, in a laboratory. The TA number on your jar is the result for that batch, not an average for the range.

Never blended. Colour and flavour shift with what was flowering and what the weather did. We keep harvests separate, so each of our monofloral honeys tastes like themselves.

Family owned and run. Two brothers, their own hives, their own hands on every order.

None of that is unusual among small producers. It's just rarer than the shelf would suggest.

A beehive is a stack of boxes. Where a box sits in that stack decides whether the honey inside it is ours or theirs.At t...
01/10/2026

A beehive is a stack of boxes. Where a box sits in that stack decides whether the honey inside it is ours or theirs.

At the bottom is the brood chamber. Eggs, larvae, young bees, and the colony's own stores of honey and pollen. It's the nursery and the pantry, and it belongs to the hive.

Above it sits a queen excluder — a grid with gaps wide enough for a worker bee and too narrow for the queen. She stays below it. Which means everything above it is free of brood.

And above that are the supers. This is where a strong colony puts what it doesn't need. Surplus.

That surplus is the only honey that gets harvested. The boxes below the excluder are left where they are.

It's a simple arrangement, and it's the whole reason a hive can be worked year after year rather than emptied once.

Raw honey from our own hives amoung the pristine forests of Western Australia.

Honey doesn't go off. But it can quietly lose some of its activity.Three things worth knowing about the jar in your cupb...
30/09/2026

Honey doesn't go off. But it can quietly lose some of its activity.

Three things worth knowing about the jar in your cupboard.

1. It may crystallise, and that isn't a fault.
Raw honey sets over time. It's glucose coming out of solution, and it's a sign the honey hasn't been processed to stop it happening. Stand the jar in warm water for a few minutes and it returns to liquid. Warm, not hot and never the microwave.

2. The cupboard, not the fridge.
Cool and dark is ideal. Refrigeration doesn't help; the cold only sets it faster. Keep the lid on too, because honey draws moisture from the air.

3. Heat is the enemy, not age.
In 2023, researchers at the University of Western Australia published a study on Jarrah and Marri honey specifically. Honey stored between 37 and 45°C lost significant activity within twelve weeks. Honey kept cool stayed stable. Age alone wasn't the deciding factor. Temperature was.

So a jar in a cool pantry will hold its character for years. A jar left in a hot car over summer, or on the shelf above the stove, is a different story.

And one last thing — every batch is different. Colour and flavour shift with what was flowering and what the weather did. We do not blend, so each harvest tastes like itself.

Raw honey from our own hives in the South West of Western Australia.

TA 10+. TA 20+. TA 35+.If you've picked up a jar of Western Australian honey, you've seen the number. Here's what it act...
29/09/2026

TA 10+. TA 20+. TA 35+.

If you've picked up a jar of Western Australian honey, you've seen the number. Here's what it actually is.

TA stands for Total Activity. It's a laboratory measure of a honey's activity, graded against a phenol standard. It isn't a tier we assign, and it isn't a grade of quality the way "premium" or "reserve" is on a bottle of w**e.

It's a result.

And we test every batch. The number printed on your jar is the result for the honey inside that jar — not an average for the range, and not a figure carried over from a good season three years ago.

That's a fair question to put to any honey producer. Ours included.

Raw honey from our own hives in the pristine forests of Western Australia. Family owned and operated.

Honey is the only food in your pantry that will not spoil. Not "lasts a long time" — will not spoil.Here is why, and why...
28/09/2026

Honey is the only food in your pantry that will not spoil. Not "lasts a long time" — will not spoil.

Here is why, and why it ends up on our label.

Ripe honey is roughly 80% sugar and sits under 18% water. That concentration binds the remaining water so tightly there is almost nothing left for bacteria to drink. Add a pH around 3.9 — more acidic than most people expect — and very little can survive in it.

Then the bees add something of their own. Glucose oxidase, secreted into the nectar as they work it. When honey meets moisture, that enzyme produces hydrogen peroxide, slowly rather than all at once.

That last reaction is the one that matters to us. A Total Activity rating is a laboratory grading of a honey's activity against a phenol standard, and in Western Australian Jarrah, Redgum and Blackbutt, a large share of that activity is peroxide-based. So TA 10+, TA 20+ and TA 35+ are not marketing tiers. They are the chemistry, measured, batch by batch.

Raw honey from our own hives in Western Australia.

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