Here is our end of year Christmas Newsletter, click here to have a read!

Are you going to the 'Taste of NZ', Victoria Park, Auckland - 19th - 22nd Oct?

Taste incredible cuisine from New Zealand's best restaurants, discover gourmet products, meet award winning chefs including Rick Stein, Gary Rhodes, Annabel Langbein & Josh Emett - indulge with friends at Taste of New Zealand!

FMNZ Chairperson and Chef Chris Fortune, Auckland based Author and Chef Julie Busio and Taste Magazines contributor Luca Villari, Carlos Atkinson  (Head Chef, Bowmans), Sal Grant,  (Head chef, The Mulberry), Jason Horwood, (Head Chef, Eden Cloakroom), Jax Hamilton, (Masterchef NZ runner-up) and others will be conducting  over 30 Cooking demonstrations in front of thousands of customers at the Festival using Farmers' Market product on the Outstanding in their fields portable Kitchen.

Sweetree honey and bee pollen will be used in these cooking demonstrations.  So look out for them!

For more information on the Taste NZ Festival  -  www.tastefestivals.co.nz

For more information on the Outstanding in their fields Kitchen - www.outstandingintheirfields.org.nz  - here you can see samples of the cooking demos that have been done all over NZ.  Keep an eye out for the demo carried out in Hamilton using our honey!

We will have the official launch of our new brand at the Hamilton Farmers Market tomorrow (Sunday 9th October).  There will also be a top chef at the market promoting 'Outstanding in their Field' where our honey and pollen will be used.  Come and see our new look and get some specials!

Do you know how we came up with the name Sweetree?  When we first started the business we called ourselves 'Vitality' because our first product was Bee Pollen, which of course gives you vitality.  We had planned to on sell the honey to a packer, but when we tasted the honey from the wonderful Marokopa apiary it was amazing.  We thought 'everyone needs to taste it!'  Vitality didn't seem the right name for the honey so we brain stormed some ideas.  I (Stephanie) had watched a children's movie with our boys about some baby dinosaurs whose treat was to eat the flowers from the trees, they called them 'Tree Sweets'. I was thinking that the bees collect the sweet nectar from the tree flowers  - our name 'Sweetree' was born.

Well our Sweetree Honey website is finally live!!  How exciting!  Have a look around and let us know what you think.  The website will be continuously updated so keep popping in for updates!