Greek Raw Honey - Premium Raw Honeys by Wild about Honey
2022 Marks 10 years of Wild about Honey. This premium range of personally selected rare and wonderful Greek honeys has been curated to bring you the very best of Greek honey. Needless to say, all our honeys are free from GMO's ,antibiotics, contaminants and are unpasteurized and as raw as when they were extracted from the hive. We take special pride in this range as it is the culmination of ten years of tasting and selecting the very best that mother nature has to offer. As with our award winning Portuguese range, all our honey is personally sourced and fairly traded. You will find medicinal honeys, incredibly rare honeys and honeydew honeys any of which would make a wonderful gift ( even to yourself).
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Raw Greek Kalymnos Thyme honey by Wild about Honey
£7.99
Visit product page →Greece is famous for its Thyme honey, and there is a truly amazing diversity of Thyme honey produced. Most of the Thyme honey tends to multifloral, that is to say it is quite obviously Thyme honey but with the presence of enough Wildflowers to change the character of it significantly from place to place.
Some of the Greek islands can be rugged, rocky and sparsely vegetated, and it is on these islands there may be little else flowering at the same time so the bees forage on the Thyme almost exclusively and produce Thyme honeys which are extremely Thyme rich and highly monofloral.
Kalymnos is a small island in the eastern Aegean close to Turkey which produces such a Thyme honey, it is rich golden and HIGHLY aromatic and prized for its medicinal qualities. This year a Kalymnos Thyme honey won 3 stars at the Great Taste Awards. It also goes without saying that Thyme honey is traditionally prized for its medicinal qualities especially for lung conditions, colds and respiratory health.
Our Raw Greek Kalymnos Thyme honey is produced by Isabella who wrote this beautiful letter about her relationship to beekeeping. It is produced in full below.
"My name is Isabella and ten years ago I returned after studies to my beautiful island of Kalymnos. Looking for something new and hearing for years from the old ones that the thyme honey of Kalymnos is really 'golden' (world famous) first in nutritional value and properties, and how important it can contribute to our health, I decided to get involved in beekeeping.
The process until the honey is produced in the hive and reaches consumption was more difficult than I initially imagined. It is a job that requires a lot of physical strength and a lot of patience. The hours you have to devote are too many and the fatigue is indescribable. But the result rewards you. As soon as you bond with the bees and this work, you can understand that the way of life of the bee and how a bee works is admirable.
So every year since then, many times with losses and difficulties, I try with love, patience and persistence, to make this precious gift of nature called thyme honey known to the younger generation, because it should be allowed to be enjoyed in every home. It is a wonder of nature. A miracle, which we are all entitled to have."
