Kewzing, South Sikkim
Himalayan Forest Honey
Mid-altitude monastery-valley honey from southern Sikkim.
Darker amber. Savoury, closer to a European forest honey, with a slow finish.
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- Village
- Kewzing, South Sikkim
- Altitude
- 1,500 – 2,200 m
- Harvest
- Spring
- Certified
- FSSAI registered · Eurofins tested
- In progress
- EU organic · GI tag
Kewzing, South Sikkim
Kewzing is a Bhutia village in South Sikkim, set in a wide bowl of pine and broadleaf forest below the Maenam ridge. It is best known for two things: an active Buddhist monastery built in the 1980s, and a community-tourism programme that has kept its forest cover unusually intact for the region. For us, that forest cover is everything. Kewzing's beekeepers maintain their hives at the edge of monastery land, where the forage is wild, the canopy is closed, and the disturbance from human activity is minimal. We started working here in 2022. Today the Kewzing collective is one of our most consistent — partly because the beekeepers are veterans, and partly because the monastery has, in its own quiet way, protected this forest for forty years.
What the bees forage on.
The Kewzing forage is dominated by oak, chestnut, alder, and a long succession of understorey wildflowers. Spring brings a heavy rhododendron bloom; later in the year, the bees work alder catkins and forest mint. The honey is darker and more savoury than Zitlang — closer to the European wild-forest style — with a slow, lingering finish.
Every jar is traced to its village.
We're building FarmLedger so the code on the lid will open this harvest's own record: the beekeeper (when they agree to be named), the harvest date and the lab results.
How Traceability Will Work