One thing that is not about customs. When you mail this honey, remember what it is and where it comes from. The honey hunters take real risk for it. I...

altitude matters because the rhododendron forests that produce the strong nectar grow at certain elevations. lower down you get more rhododendron spec...

@Jake you cant audit it fully, true. but you can tell who is even trying. do they name the region and the cooperative? do they talk about the hunters ...

my real worry is different. people use the old story as proof — "it is famous since ancient time, so it is safe and tested". this is backwards. an old...

thank you for putting the heritage point in the list and not at the bottom. for many people this is just a product. for us it is men climbing cliffs o...

And meanwhile, the cultural story disappears.

the relabeling is the one that actually angers me. to print "gurung honey hunter" on honey that came from anywhere is not only a lie about a product. ...

for me the fair pay part is the one that gets left out of these threads. the men who climb for this honey carry real risk. if a brand charges premium ...

the most common catch i see is the relabel. ordinary honey from somewhere, given our name to raise a price they could not get otherwise. cheap because...

'Deli bal' (literally 'crazy honey' in Turkish) refers specifically to Turkish mad honey, produced in the Black Sea region — particularly Trabzon prov...

Speaking from Nepal: direct-from-Nepal can be great or can be a problem depending on who you're buying from.Potential advantages: lower cost (no Wes...

And remember mad honey's story is cultural too. It's not just a 'relaxation product.'

People. Livelihood. Ethics. Seasonality. It's not just a chemical trivia fact.

And it shifts focus away from Nepal's cultural reality into Western myth marketing.