New Zealand drowning in mānuka honey after a boom in beekeeping

As demand for honey slows after the pandemic, stockpiles far exceed the amount usually sold in a year

New Zealand is drowning in honey after a boom in beekeeping collided with slowing international demand to create towering stockpiles.

Over the past five years, global desire for mnuka honey and demand for home-based honey remedies during the pandemic helped push up prices, creating a kind of honey gold rush on New Zealand farms.