No ordinary honey
Every jar reveals a story.
Every taste takes you on a journey.
We like honey that piques our curiosity. A honey that has personality, whose diverse
flavours can be traced all the way back to the farm it came from. That’s what
makes our certified 100% organic, small-batch honey unique.
No ordinary honey
Every one of our honeys has a distinct, mouth-watering taste that
reflects the flavours of the forests and flowers where they were
produced, and the season they were produced in.
By carefully removing the honey from the comb and gently filtering it, we also retain bee pollen and preserve the honeys' natural enzymes and vitamins. And because we never blend our honey the flavour is even more intense.
Zambia
Produced in Zambia’s Miombo forests in Mwinilunga, by bees that predominantly forage on the nectar from its flowering leguminous trees. This organic honey is warm and medium bodied, with hints of currants.
Tanzania
Dark and rich, with a lingering hint of spice. This complex organic honey is from the Kigoma forest plains of Tanzania and is enriched by the region’s diverse trees and
savannah flowers.
Ethiopia
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What we're about
We love our honey. We love the fact it’s naturally filtered. We love its depth of flavour. We love how it can change people’s lives. And, hopefully, how it’ll make everyone who eats it curious about where it came from.
Our founder, Salina, really got to know what makes great honey when she established a honey brand and supply chain in Zimbabwe. She learned how to extract it without losing any of its natural goodness and how much better real, undiluted honey is, especially when the bees that make it roam freely in a rich habitat.
She also spent a lot of time with smallholder farmers who rely on bees to boost their income. Beekeeping doesn’t require much land, but brings in money that makes a big difference. And because bees need a healthy natural environment to thrive in, the farmers become stewards of the countryside around them.
Always inquisitive, Salina was inspired to meet more farmers in more amazing places and bring them together to create another brand. Curious. A honey with a taste that speaks for itself, with plenty of stories to tell.
Small batches, big ideas
Our honey is made by smallholder farmers so it comes in small batches.
That can make getting it to you, tricky. Sometimes there’s not enough to make transporting it worth while. But if we let that stop us, you wouldn’t get to
drizzle it on your muesli and our farmers wouldn’t earn any money.
So we always find a way. Just like our honey, we’re different.
Straight from the jar
Whether you like it spooned from the jar, spread on you toast, stirred
into your porridge or mixed into a salad dressing, Curious gives
everything a tasty dose of personality.
Less ordinary stories
We might have mentioned we’re a bit different. Certified 100% organic too.
The bees that make our honey roam the Miombo woodlands that stretch across
Zambia and Tanzania. The farmers who tend to them use methods passed down through generations to harvest it deep in the forest. In every respect it’s miles
away from commercial agriculture.
We’re supplied by 7,000 smallholder beekeepers in Zambia and 2,200 in Tanzania many of them hang log style hives from the forest’s baobab and acacia trees. They’re also supported by a small army of full-time and seasonal workers.
It all sounds very idyllic. But their lives aren’t easy. The average farmer’s income in the region is $10 per month. But once they begin supplementing their earnings by producing and selling honey, that can increase by up to 400%. Extra income that can send a child to school or buy more crops to plant to help a
business grow, lifting whole communities out of poverty.
Bees maybe small but they’re definitely mighty.