Frequently Asked Questions
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Sunny Times honey is raw, lightly filtered and never heated, so it keeps its natural enzymes, pollen and delicate flavour. Unlike many mass market honeys, we don’t mix or process our honey, so you taste honey exactly as the bees make it.
Each jar is a small snapshot of place and time. It truly is honey as it is found in the hive.
Beyond a really delicious flavour, our approach supports biodiversity and natural pollination. By keeping hives on organic properties and near native forest, we bolster pollination for both edible crops and native eco systems.
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Our beehives sit within the ancient caldera of the Tweed Valley in Northern NSW, all within a 10 minute drive from our home. We are the beekeepers - caring for our stationary hives, harvesting the honey, and bottling it ourselves. Placed in pristine, often hard to reach native forest locations, this landscape shapes the unique and nuanced flavour of our honey.
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Yes. Sunny Times honey is truly raw. it is lightly filtered and never heated. We harvest the honey from our own hives and bottle it ourselves, preserving its natural enzymes, pollen and delicate flavour.
We keep our bees with care and curiosity. No shortcuts. Hives are placed on certified organic farms and on protected forest edges, ensuring foraging is free from synthetic chemicals. We practice minimal intervention in the hive, extracting only surplus honey and always protecting the health of our bees.
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Like wine, honey reflects the weather, the soil and the floral sources bees forage from season to season - so the flavour changes naturally depending on which flowers are blooming and at what time.
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Creamed honey is a smooth, spreadable honey with a fine, velvety texture and a rich, buttery mouthfeel. It is pure, raw honey with nothing added.
We make creamed honey by gently cooling and spinning our raw honey. We create a controlled crystallization by seeding it with fine, active crystals and keeping it at a cool, steady temperature so small crystals form uniformly, and finally we slowly spin and rest the honey over 3 days until it reaches that perfect velvety texture.
No drips. No mess. Just that nostalgic spreadable honey from your childhood
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Honeycomb is the bees’ natural wax structure filled with raw honey. We harvest it only from select hives at the height of Spring. You can chew it like a sweet treat, spread it on toast, or crumble it into dishes for texture and flavour. Yes, it is completely edible!
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Crystallisation is a natural process for raw honey and doesn’t mean it has gone bad. It is simply the sugars solidifying and is actually a good sign that your honey is raw and unprocessed. Gently warming the jar in a pot of hot water returns it to runny honey.
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Raw honey is best stored in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight. There’s no need to refrigerate it as cooler temperatures can actually encourage crystallisation.
If you want a firmer texture to your creamed honey then pop that jar into the fridge.
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We ship Sunny Times raw honey Australia-wide excluding WA and Tasmania, due to biosecurity restrictions. Orders are packed with care and dispatched within 1–2 business days from Northern NSW. We offer flat-rate shipping of $12, with tracking provided once your order is on its way.