Hamish
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Hamish & Andy
333 - Chipping for Approval
If you land on manuka and you can't force the bees where to go.
Hamish & Andy
333 - Chipping for Approval
Yeah, because the manuka is the plant, isn't it?
Hamish & Andy
333 - Chipping for Approval
And you need the bees to only eat or take in that particular flower.
Hamish & Andy
333 - Chipping for Approval
You need them to get a taste for the nectar.
Hamish & Andy
333 - Chipping for Approval
And then they make a honey that's just so strictly.
Hamish & Andy
333 - Chipping for Approval
If they're ducking off and having a rose, that can ruin your whole manuka one.
Hamish & Andy
333 - Chipping for Approval
It doesn't ruin it, but the only way you get it certified as Manuka honey is once you're on flow and the honey's flowing, then you get someone to test it.
Hamish & Andy
333 - Chipping for Approval
It's a very rigorous industry.
Hamish & Andy
333 - Chipping for Approval
You get given something called an ultimate Manuka factor or whatever.
Hamish & Andy
333 - Chipping for Approval
The higher it is, the better your bees have done.
Hamish & Andy
333 - Chipping for Approval
What's the highest you've seen?