Western Australia is one of the few places left in the world where honey can still be produced chemical-free, allowing us to enjoy raw, unpasteurised and unprocessed honey that tastes as if it’s come straight from the hive, and that’s because in the case of raw WA honey, it has!
WA has done an incredible job of keeping out diseases that have devastated the global industry, which is why we can produce the tastiest and healthiest honey in the world. Thanks to incredibly tough boarder control, mainland Australia is currently free of varroa mite, an external parasite which kills bee colonies. WA hives and honeybees are also free of many deadly pests and diseases found in the eastern states of Australia.
Elixir Honey is a local producer that started out 20 years ago as a backyard beekeeping project in Nedlands and eventually relocated to Denmark to expand their collection of hives. Owner Romy explains their non-chemical approach,
“Everywhere else, if a hive starts to show signs of disease, they’ll chuck antibiotics on them and move them along. But we burn them to breed out diseased hives.”
“We’re a biodiverse hotspot in the southwest of WA, so you get a lot of different tastes and colours. Karri trees in the southwest aren’t found anywhere else in the world. Jarrah trees and a lot of eucalyptus trees are unique to WA too,”
“Before Christmas, the hives in Applecross produce honey nearly exclusively from jacaranda trees. It’s very pale and my personal favourite”
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WA Honey Markets & Providores