OUR STORY
Humble Beginnings
Nestled in the foothills of beautiful Mt Lyford is North Canterbury's best kept secret, producing award winning honey crafted by nature in our mountainous landscape. From lush green Black Beech forests and native New Zealand bush to fragrant Manuka trees, tangled blackberry patches, babbling brooks and alpine meadows, this is the natural paradise of Mt Lyford Honey.
Our honey story has grown from humble beginnings with Steve's refugee grandparents having just a few beehives. Over 40 years later, we have up to 900 beehives tended lovingly year round. We also custom build and supply apiary equipment to beekeepers worldwide with our sister company, Beetech Engineering Ltd.
Our Beekeeping Buzz
We extract our honey beside each beehive using Steve's inventive mobile honey extraction facility. This gives us happier, healthier bees with hives staying in once place all year round, and results is more pure tasting honey by not contaminating honey along dusty gravel roads.
Instead of using helicopters in our wild alpine landscape, we have a lot of adventures tackling the New Zealand bush on foot as part of our commitment to sustainability.
All Natural Practices
For your peace of mind, our honey is rigorously tested for MGO strength, purity, freshness, and quality to MPI standards at an independent government-approved laboratory.
We have no need to feed sugar to our bees so you will find our honey is pure and naturally foraged from alpine nectar.
We do not use heat treatment to age honey to accelerate MGO levels, although this is the practice of many honey companies. We prefer to give you good honest honey with the original MGO level straight from the hive - genuine honey in its most natural form.
Visitors Welcome!
If you are traveling through our woodland area, you are welcome to visit us and share our honey story. We will tell you how our bees have made our special reserve honey. Enjoy sampling our delicious honey varieties. Receive good advice on what honey will best suit your needs. Maybe have your photo taken with the friendly beekeepers!
Honey is good for your body and your soul. Wild honey from our magical location will help soothe and restore. We invite you to indulge in a little luxury today from Mt Lyford Honey.
