Honey the bees chose, foraged wild — not fed to order.
Hüseyin and Kadriye Dinç keep their hives above Yastık from spring to autumn, feeding the bees just enough to see out the cold, then letting the mountain do the rest.
Four stages, one mountain, no shortcuts.
Spring feed
A light, minimal sugar feed — enough to carry the colony through the last cold weeks. Nothing more. It's a survival ration, not a diet.
Wild forage
Once the mountain flowers open, the feeding stops. The bees range across roughly 18 varieties of wild thyme, astragalus and endemic highland plants Hüseyin has watched bloom his whole life.
Capping
The bees seal each cell with wax once the honey is ready — the sign that it's finished on their terms, not a harvest deadline.
Harvest
Whole capped frames are cut, not spun. What you receive is the comb exactly as the hive built it — nothing extracted, filtered, or blended.
The Carniolan colony forages freely across Yastık's wild highlands.
Most commercial honey operations feed sugar syrup right through the season. Hüseyin does the opposite: feed only when the bees would otherwise struggle, then step back and let a Carniolan colony forage widely, patiently, across a mountainside most producers never reach.
The mountainside itself is unusually diverse — Hüseyin has counted roughly 18 different wild thyme varieties alone growing across the slopes, alongside astragalus and endemic highland flowers, which is what gives this honey its layered, changeable character from batch to batch.
He doesn't do it alone. His wife, Kadriye Dinç, works the hives beside him every season in Yastık.
Six months on the mountain, in six numbers.
Not marketing claims — a plain description of how this honey is made, so you can judge the quality for yourself.
Raw & unheated
Never warmed above hive temperature during harvest, so nothing is pasteurised or cooked out of it.
Additives
Nothing added, nothing extracted after harvest. What's in the comb is exactly what the bees made.
Wild thyme varieties
Roughly 18 different wild thyme species grow across the mountainside alone, alongside astragalus and mountain wildflowers — a genuine multi-floral forage, not a single sprayed crop.
Only period fed
Sugar feed is limited to the spring survival window. The rest of the season, the bees forage entirely on their own.
Apiary of origin
Every batch traces to one mountainside above Yastık — not a blend of imported honey from multiple sources.
Spinning or extraction
Cut straight from the frame, so pollen and wax stay exactly where the bees put them.
These figures describe Hüseyin's process, not medical or health benefit claims. Moisture content, HMF and pollen-analysis figures will be added once a batch has been lab-tested.
This year's combs — individually numbered, strictly limited.
Every frame is different. Once a batch sells out, it's gone until next August.
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A few things people ask.
Is the honey raw and unheated?
Yes. It's never warmed above hive temperature during harvest, so nothing is pasteurised or cooked out of it.
Where does the honey come from?
A single apiary above Yastık village in the Erzincan mountains, Turkey, kept by Hüseyin and Kadriye Dinç at roughly 1,900m elevation.
Are the bees fed sugar?
Only a light, minimal feed during the spring survival window. The rest of the season, they forage naturally across roughly 18 varieties of wild thyme, plus astragalus and mountain wildflowers.
What does "cut comb" mean?
The capped frames are cut by hand rather than spun in an extractor, so the honey arrives exactly as the bees built and sealed it.
Do you sell wholesale in the UK?
Yes — we work with a small number of UK stockists each season, including shops, hamper brands and restaurants.
How is it shipped from Turkey?
Honey is an animal product under UK import rules, so shipments are handled through a registered importer with the correct health certification.