{"id":100387,"date":"2016-02-22T15:05:30","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T20:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=100387"},"modified":"2016-02-22T15:11:46","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T20:11:46","slug":"new-middle-earth-honey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2016\/02\/22\/100387-new-middle-earth-honey\/","title":{"rendered":"New Middle-earth Honey!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever wondered what the honey from Beorn\u2019s hives gifted to Gandalf and Thorin\u2019s Company on their Quest tasted like? Now you can find out! For the first time ever, Beorn\u2019s treat is available worldwide from Middle-earth Honey, a New Zealand based company striving both to bring the tastes of Arda to the world and to also save the precious bees that produce it.<\/p>\n

Their first product is called Anduin Vale Honey and its inspiration was taken directly from the text of The Hobbit<\/em>: \u201cThis is what he promised to do for them. He would provide ponies for each of them, and a horse for Gandalf, for their journey to the forest, and he would lade them with food to last them for weeks with care, and packed so as to be as easy as possible to carry\u2014nuts, flour, sealed jars of dried fruits, and red earthenware pots of honey, and twice-baked cakes that would keep good a long time, and on a little of which they could march far. The making of these was one of his secrets; but honey was in them, as in most of his foods, and they were good to eat, though they made one thirsty.\u201d \u2013 The Hobbit, <\/em>\u201cQueer Lodgings\u201d<\/p>\n

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You can meander through the Vale at the Middle-earth Honey website here<\/a><\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0and likewise may keep up to date with new products and recipes by following their Facebook page here<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Like Beorn, the nature-loving guardian of the Vale, Middle-earth Honey holds its bees in high regard and gives them the best possible treatment. Their honey is 100%\u00a0 natural and is based just ten minutes from Hobbiton in Matamata, NZ.<\/p>\n

Anduin Vale Honey is but the first of many Middle-earth products, including candies, chocolates, and even some meads (honey wine) to be released later this year.<\/p>\n

Even better, Middle-earth Honey is helping to support the endangered honey bee by maintaining healthy hives on the Pacific Island nation of Niue where the bee population has been untouched by disease or decline.<\/p>\n

You can find out more about these special island bees in the video below:<\/p>\n