A Georgian (ex Soviet) I have worked with has bought a small tea
garden and has hives of bees busily making honey from Camellia
sinensis flowers. As a teaman I dislike this - tea bushes should be
kept in the non flowering juvenile phase of rapid leaf production by
strict training and severe pruning - flowering bushes equals bad
husbandry and butts should be kicked.
As a businessman I see "Tea Honey" as a great product extension to my
retail range of exotic teas and just sqeezable into the self imposed
but oft confining title of "Nothing But Tea". However the European
Union has very strict import restrictions on honey and Georgia has not
yet done its homework to meet them, so as yet Georgian Tea Honey is
still on the commercial drawing board.
I'd be interested to know if anyone has seen genuine tea honey offered
anywhere on their travels.

Nigel at Teacraft (and at Nothing But Tea)


On Aug 5, 1:46*pm, Space Cowboy > wrote:
> A nearby community government funded a project for 'Beehives in every
> neighborhood'. *It was a small stipend with a representative giving
> show and tells. *This weekend I attended a small presentation which
> also included the city beehive club. *I got the particulars and it is
> something I've always wanted to do. *Anyway I'm talking with someone
> about the benefits of honey and he said he personally knew of someone
> who was depressed for years on medication who started drinking green
> tea with honey and is now off meds and doing okay. *I've mentioned
> before standing in my fruit trees drinking my tea with the bees
> buzzing around my noggin. *Occasionally one will check the cup but too
> hot.