SummerGlow Apiaries Ltd is a family owned and operated New Zealand beekeeping company established in 1976 by husband and wife team, Bill and Margaret Bennett.
Bill's uncle, Norman Tuck, took up beekeeping in the Waikato, New Zealand, in the early 1940's. Bill helped his uncle during his school holidays in the early 1960's. Through working alongside his uncle Bill developed a deep appreciation of beekeeping and of the health-giving qualities of honey. During his high school years Bill ran his own hives in his parent's backyard and kept his family well-supplied with home-grown honey.
In 1976 Bill took up beekeeping fulltime and with his wife, Margaret, established SummerGlow Apiaries Ltd running about 600 hives.
In 2010 and 2011 their son, Alan Bennett, and son-in-law, James Jeffery, joined the company giving the business growth and continuation for many years ahead.
"We really know our honey". We now have more than 3500 beehives located in the greater Waikato region, in the pristine bush areas of the northern King Country and in the remote Forgotten World region of North Taranaki, North Island, New Zealand.
We specialize in the production of high grade UMF16+ and UMF 22+ Manuka Honey which, for the past 26 years, we have sent directly to customers worldwide.
In 1998 Bill and Margaret pioneered the establishment of the now highly-revered and trusted quality trademark UMF®.
We were the very first to differentiate between the two types of manuka honey (then known as active manuka and non-active manuka) and the first to make high grade UMF16+ Manuka Honey available to people who could benefit from its unique properties.
In 1995 we were the very first to differentiate between the two types of manuka honey and the first to make high grade UMF16+ Manuka Honey available to people who could benefit from its unique qualities.
Our UMF Licence number 1001, being the first ever issued, shows our dedication to and historical involvement with this very special honey.
We send our Genuine New Zealand Manuka Honey UMF16+ direct from us the Producers here in New Zealand to you the Consumer.
Founders, Owners and Directors
Head Beekeeper, Company Manager
Compliance Manager, Beekeeper, Company Manager
Office Manager
Ecommerce / Dispatch Manager
Beekeeper
Beekeeper
Head Store-person, Honey Extraction Manager
Beekeeper
Trainee Beekeeper
Trainee Beekeeper
Our Own Place
We are based at Te Kowhai, a small township about 8km northwest of Hamilton.
Our beehives are located throughout the greater Waikato area and in the remote inland King Country and Taranaki areas.
We place our beehives in different geographic regions for different floral types of honey from New Zealand's pristine native bush and lush green farmland. Our hives produce honey from manuka, kanuka, rewarewa, kamahi, and pasture.
Every drop of our manuka honey is produced by our own bees from manuka areas which we own and in which we have had hives for the past 43 years.
Bill and Margaret Bennett, founders of SummerGlow Apiaries Ltd, own 1640 acres of manuka-growing land on which we place our hives for the production of high grade manuka honey.
Our manuka grows wild in its natural state, not in man-made plantations but on spray-free, chemical-free protected conservation wetlands and on the very steep hillsides of some of New Zealand's most remote wilderness areas in the isolated Forgotten World area of North Taranaki.
All the honey we sell is produced by our own bees from manuka areas and native bush areas which we own and in which we have had hives for the past 45 years. We do not buy honey from any other beekeepers.
We have full control of the quality and purity of all the honey we sell. We know exactly where our honey comes from.
"The Lord Is Our Light And Our Salvation"
It helped my digestion & gastritis. Thanks. I will keep buying High Quality Manuka Honey
We were happy with the UMF16+ and always expecting something higher as we had to buy other brands. Now, we are very happy to have a higher medicinal quality honey to go along with our health care programme. Very satisfied with the quality…reall value for money !
Everything about this company is top shelf. The best!
The products arrived safely, and beautifully packed. The first thing I did was take a spoon and try the honey 🍯 it is a golden cream color, and the taste is amazing.
I bought the UMF 16.
Thank you and the 🐝
I’ve been using this cream on my face for a few years now and love it! I use it as a daily and nightly moisturizer and for sun exposure! It’s so creamy and lasts a long time even though I use it at least twice a day! 100% recommend!
I am in North Carolina in the US. I ordered the 20+ UMF honey & love it! Prompt shipping...took about 10 days to get here.
I recommend this honey without hesitation, in my household, we use it as a cure for many different ailments including upset stomach, cough, congestion, to name a few...the product is true to promise.
Love this honey and the outstanding service received every time we order highly recommended
I have tryed many manuka honeys thid if by far one of the best tasting . Thanks for the honey. Summer glow 👍
This was the first time we had tried these! We love the taste & that there
are not extra ingredients in them that are unhealthy. Great product, thank you!
I have been purchasing this honey for awhile & am very satisfied with the
quality of the products. The honey is excellent for hot tea, iced tea, or even
use on skin abrasions.
We will definitely continue to purchase into the future! Unique products, thank you!
Tracie
Daily Face Moisturiser - antioxdant KiwiFruit with rosehip oil
I use your Manuka honey more than three years
I appreciate your product
I am so glad that I picked up the tip through "Raincountry" on youtube about this great honey! and so lucky you ship to Norway! I just love this honey! I take a teaspoon when I feel groggy, and if the throuth gets a little "clogged up" I also find its great to speed up healing-prosess when different issues and scratches on my skin, if needed
Stopped the cough for two hours or more.
The honey and lozenges cured my husbands throat when nothing else would help. We bought a medical salve for curing wounds 20 years and it worked. Recommended by a physician the treated my son. No product like any we’re used. Linda
Very pleased with the Manuka Honey cough drops and the Manuka Honey Summer Glow
