100% Organic Honeybush Tea

What is Honeybush Tea?

Honeybush Tea is a herbal tea made from the leaves, flowers, and stems of the honeybush plant (Cyclopia spp.), which is native to South Africa. It is closely related to another South African herbal tea called Rooibos. Like Rooibos, Honeybush tea is caffeine-free and is often enjoyed for its mild, slightly sweet, and honey-like flavor. This naturally sweet herbal tea with many potential health benefits has an unique flavor profile. It is a good option for those looking to explore different types of herbal teas or seeking a caffeine-free beverage option.

There exists more than 20 Honeybush Tea species. Only 6 of these species are commercially offered and sustainably viable. Suppliers can offer single species Honeybush Tea and also blends consisting of more than one Honeybush Tea species. 

Honeybush Tea is a herbal tea made from the leaves, flowers, and stems of the honeybush plant (Cyclopia spp.), which is native to South Africa. It is closely related to another South African herbal tea called Rooibos. Like Rooibos, Honeybush tea is caffeine-free and is often enjoyed for its mild, slightly sweet, and honey-like flavor. This naturally sweet herbal tea with many potential health benefits has an unique flavor profile. It is a good option for those looking to explore different types of herbal teas or seeking a caffeine-free beverage option.

There exists more than 20 Honeybush Tea species. Only 6 of these species are commercially offered and viable. 

Honeybush Tea is a herbal tea made from the leaves, flowers, and stems of the honeybush plant (Cyclopia spp.), which is native to South Africa. It is closely related to another South African herbal tea called Rooibos. Like Rooibos, Honeybush tea is caffeine-free and is often enjoyed for its mild, slightly sweet, and honey-like flavor. This naturally sweet herbal tea with many potential health benefits has an unique flavor profile. It is a good option for those looking to explore different types of herbal teas or seeking a caffeine-free beverage option.

How is Honeybush Tea Processed?

Honeybush Tea is a caffeine-free herbal tea indigenous to South Africa. Honeybush Tea is processed by different ways and durations, but timing greatly influences the flavour and quality. The processing includes the following: Harvesting by hand, cutting by using cutting machines, fermentation, drying, and finally sieving into different cuts. 

FERMENTATION: Honeybush Tea has the natural ability to undergo a natural fermentation process, but with added heat the quality can be greatly improved and microbiologically results monitored to ensure export grade status.

DRYING: At Agulhas Honeybush Tea after fermentation, the tea is spread in modified greenhouses to reduce moisture content to below 10% to fit export requirements. 

SIEVING: After drying the tea it is sieved in different cuts to ensure consistent-sized tea particles to fit the needs of the buyer. 

PACKAGING: Tea is packaged, labeled and ready for lab testing, and ultimately national sales or direct export. At Agulhas Honeybush Tea lab results are provided to all buyers to prove food safety, export grade – and/or organic status.

Our Journey

In 1994, Agulhas Honeybush Tea’s journey with Honeybush Tea began when we moved to the beautiful Overberg region, Western Cape, South Africa. It didn’t take long for us to plant our first Honeybush Tea plants on our farm. Back then, very little was known about Honeybush Tea’s ecological preferences and its potential in the tea industry. We started with a small breeding block on our farm to figure out which Honeybush Tea species thrived in our climate and soil.

Today, we’re proud to have around 80 hectares of thriving Honeybush Tea, all stemming from seeds we harvested in that initial mother block. Our second-generation family run business is our pride and joy, and we hope that those who enjoy our tea experience the same pleasure that we have in producing it.