Airborne National Honey Week Returns in 2015

Airborne National Honey Week Returns in 2015 to Celebrate New Zealand’s Sweetest Natural Resource

The Airborne National Honey Week is back for a second year in March 2015. Tying in with the end of the New Zealand honey season, it will be a celebration of the country’s sweetest natural resource, with a particular emphasis on the versatility, quality and uniqueness of New Zealand’s honey types.

Among other activities, public tastings around the country will give Kiwis the opportunity to taste the eight main varieties of New Zealand single flower honey types – from Kamahi and Clover to Manuka and Honeydew. Airborne Honey is also launching a nationwide honey challenge, inviting Kiwis to choose and share their favourite via social media. There are prizes on offer for those that share their top honey and use the hashtag: #NZHoneyWeek. Airborne Honey will be giving away a pack of six different premium monofloral honeys every day for two weeks starting onTuesday 17 March.

New Zealand is home to a number of honey varieties that can’t be found anywhere else in the world, including Tawari, Kamahi, Rata and Manuka Honey. Unlike most honey producing countries, New Zealand is also well known for not using antibiotics for the treatment of bee diseases. Kiwi beekeepers have the most disease free bees in the world and produce honey that is 100% natural with no sugar used or antibiotics added.

National Honey Week is led by Airborne Honey, New Zealand‘s oldest and most loved honey brand. Still a family owned business, Airborne has been an integral part of the New Zealand honey industry for more than 100 years, starting with just a few hives in 1910.

This year, Airborne Honey will also be organising a series of activities to raise funds for Trees For Bees, a New Zealand research organisation dedicated to promoting bee health. Among other things, Trees for Bees encourages farmers and others to plant bee-friendly flowers, trees and shrubs to protect and support bees. As pollinators, bees are vital to the future of New Zealand farming and agriculture, with 80% of the diversity of what we eat entirely or partly dependent on pollinators. Donation boxes will be set up at National Honey Week tasting spots to collect funds.

When: 16 – 23 March 2015

Where: Nationwide

Why: To celebrate New Zealand's sweetest, world-famous natural resource. The aim is to help Kiwis learn more about the variety of unique, quality honey types our country has to offer, along with the versatility of the ingredient.

Visit www.facebook.com/Airborne Honey for recipes, meal inspiration, and honey tasting and shopping tips from the experts, along with daily competitions. Follow Airborne Honey on Twitter @AirborneHoney #NZHoneyWeek

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