Our Sourcing
Zar Pure keeps its own bees. Our farm sits in the Hunza valley in Gilgit-Baltistan, where the bees forage high-altitude wildflowers in air that has never seen agricultural pesticide spraying. Every jar of honey we currently sell comes from there — one origin, one farm, one harvest at a time.
Licensed to harvest from natural beehives
Alongside our own farm, we hold licences to harvest from wild colonies in some of the richest forage in the country:
- Hunza, Gilgit-Baltistan — our own bee farm, and the source of the honey on sale today.
- Margalla Hills — protected hill forest above Islamabad.
- Changa Manga forest — one of the oldest planted forests in the subcontinent.
- Reserved forest land in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab.
Those areas are regulated for a reason. Wild colonies are easy to destroy by over-harvesting, so access is licensed and limited. We take only what a hive can spare and leave the colony enough of its own honey to get through winter. A hive we strip bare is a hive we cannot return to next year.
What we do not do
We do not heat the honey. We do not filter it. We do not blend batches from different sources to even out flavour, and we never add sugar, glucose syrup, preservative, colour or flavouring. Cold extraction leaves the pollen, enzymes and antioxidants where they belong.
This is why our honey crystallises. Raw honey granulates over weeks or months, particularly in winter. Honey that stays syrup-clear on a shelf for years has almost always been heated or thinned. The graininess is the proof, not the flaw.
What is coming next
Honey is where we started, not where we stop. We are working towards adding Shilajit, Zafran (saffron), dry fruits, nuts and honey-nut preparations — held to the same standard: single source, nothing added, nothing hidden.