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Wild, green Chatham Islands landscape with people on a viewing platform, hinting at the natural origins of Go Wild Freeze Dried Honey.
Established · 15 signalshoney Chatham Islands

Go Wild Freeze Dried Honey

Kaai Silbery & Francesca Bonventre

Sourced from varroa-free Black British bees foraging endemic plants, it's a pure culinary delight · Gold medal, Apiculture New Zealand Honey Awards (2021) · Silver medal, Outstanding NZ Food Producers Awards (2020)

“Go Wild's freeze-dried honey has already won a gold medal at the 2021 Apiculture New Zealand Honey Awards and a silver medal at the 2020 Outstanding NZ Food …” · “It's fantastic …”

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Their Story

Go Wild Freeze Dried Honey is the brainchild of Kaai Silbery, a multi-talented chef of Tainui and Ngāti Kahungunu descent, who spent 25 years in the culinary arts, including nine years as the head chef at Hotel Chatham. Her partner, Italian-born Francesca Bonventre, who has a legal background,…

What They Make

  • Freeze-dried Tarahina honey (signature product, light, crunchy, meringue-like texture, described as a 'honey cloud' or 'candyfloss')
  • Freeze-dried honey and berry sherbet (planned expansion)
  • Pre-mixed freeze-dried honey and beetroot gravlax powder (planned expansion)
  • Freeze-dried honey and soy sauce (for dusting, planned expansion)
  • Honey toffees (historical product)
  • Honey lozenges (historical product)

Awards & Recognition

  • Apiculture New Zealand Honey Awards — Gold medal(2021)
  • Outstanding NZ Food Producers Awards — Silver medal(2020)
  • Wellington Gold Awards — Recognised (GREEN category)(2020)

More from Go Wild Freeze Dried Honey

Apiary Tours (eco-tourism tours through beehives and native vegetation)Children's Bee Club (providing beehives for children to take home)Educational Initiatives (e.g., World Bee Day celebrations, food tech and creative arts classes in schools)Planned laboratory and visitor center on the Chatham IslandsPlanned tours about the history of bees on the ChathamsPlanned Chatham Islands Bee Sanctuary

How to Get Their Products

Farmers' Markets

Chatham Islands (Producer Region)

Chatham Islands

Direct Sales

1655 North Road, Waitangi 8016

Online

Shipping within NZ only. Products also available at local gift shop of Hotel Chatham.

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