Well the other weekend, when we went to Bay of Plenty region and stopped off at a local honey-specialist shop named Mossop in search for awesome honey and honey-bee encounter experience.
Mossop is a specialized shop for New Zealand honey
Mossop is a family business located in an area called Tauriko highly specialized in producing and selling honey and honey-related products.The business has 65 years of history and know-how of producing honey has been built over the time and passed down the business.
In the shop, various types of honey are sold including the famous Manuka honey.
Check out their official website here ⇒ http://www.mossopshoney.co.nz/
Tauriko is in Tauranga, Bay of Plenty region. The Mossop shop is located on the state highway 29, and is easy to find.
If you live or travel from Auckland, It is a great place to stop off to checkout locally produced honey, on your way visiting Tauranga or Rotorua.
Awesome display of New Zealand honey bees!
We have repeatedly visited Mossop over time, and the reason is not just honey products they sell: we like to see the honey bees that produce the honey!There are many shops in Auckland or other cities where you can pickup honey or honey-products, but there are not many that has display of live honey bee inside their nest.
At Mossop, they have an indoor display of honey bee nest. There is a large glass panel, and on the other side of this glass is a part of the honey bee nest.
So over the glass, you can see many honey bees moving and doing work.
Honey bee & bee nest display
You can see honey bees working real close!
You are not seeing the whole honey bee nest box, but this type of display has some advantages like it is safe for little children, and you can really get close to the bees.
Next to the live bee display, they have panels full of information about honey bees. There are pictures of work bees, queen bees and drones (male honey bees) on the panel, so you can compare these pictures with the actual bees in the glass display.
You can even try to spot drones and queen bees – you might find them if you are lucky.
This is an awesome way to get to know bees for people who are interested in honey bees, especially kids. Our children love them too.
You are allowed to take some photos by the bee display, so you could get a nice shot of yourself or your kids with honey bees – a good memory of the trip.
Range of New Zealand honey and honey products
At Mossop, they sell various types of honey and honey-related products. In addition to honey that are packaged in a bottles, there is also a bucket-size sale where you buy honey per weight.You can purchase Manuka honey that way too. The price is very reasonable; 1kg of Manuka honey for NZD47.9, NZD103.7 for 2.5kg according to their website online shop.
http://www.mossopshoney.co.nz/shop/honey/manukahoney.html
You can taste-test honey first before deciding to purchase them. They also sell honey-comb honey, great for a souvenir.
Sweets made using honey like honey fudge, cosmetic products like honey skin cream, and cute honey-bee toys perfect for kids are also sold here.
We purchased “bee-wax candle set”. We have never seen something like this before; a sweet smelling candle sheet made of bee wax!
Mossop is a perfect place to pickup anything related to honey!
Have a break with Manuka Honey ice cream!
After watching some honey bees and doing shopping, we decided to have a short break with icecream. At Mossop they have a counter with icecreams sold at NZ$2 per kids’ size scoop, or NZ$3.5 per regular size scoop.Ice creams come in various flavors but there was one in particular, Manuka honey flavor, so we had to try. New Zealand ice creams are the best! Our children were really happy too.
Mossop shop information
Overall, Mossop is a small shop but is a great place to be if you are looking for good quality New Zealand honey and honey-related products, or a bit of honey-bee encounter.They are open for business seven days a week except Christmas day and New years day, so why don’t you stop by when you visit Bay of Plenty!
Shop name：Mossop
Official homepage：http://www.mossopshoney.co.nz/
Address：761 State Highway 29、Tauriko、Tauranga、Bay of Plenty、New Zealand
Shop hours
April ～September : 9am - 5pm
October～March: 9am - 5:30pm
Closed days
Christmas and New Year’s day
Shot days
December 26th and January 2nd: 10:30am - 4:30am
Phone number for enquiries: +64 7 543 0971
Phone number for shop: +64 7 543 0032
