OUR STORY
True Story from Queensland Australia
We are a family-owned artisan honey producer creating an exceptional range of premium, distinctive raw Australian honey that brings joy to honey lovers everywhere.
Our family's beekeeping heritage dates back to 1960.
Dolfi, our founder and Master Beekeeper, discovered his passion for bees and beekeeping as a child, learning from his father who kept hives and bred Queen Bees on the family farm.
Dolfi's childhood was immersed in the world of bees—his favourite playthings were his father's hive tools. One of his most vivid early memories is from age four, playing barefoot in the backyard on a sun-drenched spring afternoon. When he spotted his father suiting up in protective gear and heading to the hives, young Dolfi followed with wonder. Within moments, he was completely covered in bees from head to toe—much to his father's amazement.
Today, Dolfi's profound knowledge, mastery, and lifelong devotion to beekeeping allow us to create exceptional, innovative honey products that our customers cherish, trust, and come back for time and again.
From Hive to Jar: A Journey of Care
Our process begins at the hive, where we work in harmony with our bees' natural rhythms. We only harvest honey when the bees have capped the cells—nature's signal that the honey has reached perfect maturity with ideal moisture content.
The frames are carefully transported to our processing facility where they're uncapped by hand and placed in our cold-extraction centrifuge. Gravity and gentle spinning coax the honey from the comb without trauma or heat. The honey then rests, allowing air bubbles to rise naturally before it's lovingly jarred—still raw, unpasteurized, and brimming with nature's benefits.
What Makes Our Honey Extraordinary
Pure, Cold-Extracted Honey: Our gentle cold-extraction process preserves the honey's natural enzymes, delicate flavour profiles, and full spectrum of health benefits that heat processing destroys.
Wide Variety, Unique Flavours: Choose from our curated selection of raw varietal honey, smooth creamed honey, and artfully infused honey featuring complementary fruit and spice blends—each crafted to highlight the unique floral sources.
Science-Backed, Enhanced Benefits: Our beekeeping practices and processing methods are guided by the latest apiary research, ensuring we maximise the honey's natural antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, and antioxidant properties.
Partnering with Australian Beekeepers: We collaborate with trusted apiaries across Australia, including remote wilderness regions known for their pristine, biodiverse floral sources. This allows us to offer rare, single-origin honey varieties you won't find anywhere else.
The Metuka Difference
Every jar of Metuka Honey is a testament to patience, expertise, and respect for the remarkable work of bees. By refusing to compromise with shortcuts or heat processing, we deliver honey in its most authentic, beneficial form—exactly as nature crafted it, from our family to yours.
Our Unique Cold-Extraction Process
At Metuka Honey, we believe the best honey is made by honouring nature's design. Our signature cold-extraction method sets us apart from conventional honey producers who use heat and aggressive processing techniques.
Unlike mass-produced honey that's often heated to high temperatures for faster filtering, we extract our honey at natural ambient temperatures. This patient, gentle approach preserves the living enzymes, beneficial probiotics, antioxidants, and delicate aromatic compounds that heat would destroy. The result is honey that tastes exactly as the bees intended—pure, complex, and alive with natural goodness.
Each batch is minimally filtered to remove only wax particles while retaining the fine pollen grains that give our honey its distinctive character and additional nutritional value. This commitment to gentle handling means our honey takes longer to produce, but the exceptional flavour and health benefits are worth the wait.
