Cape Fynbos Honeybush Tea

PRODUCT INFORMATION

The Honeybush Tea range is Cape Fynbos Tea’s flagship line and is of the highest quality, bagged, tagged, and individually packaged for freshness. Honeybush has been wild harvested and used by the indigenous people of the Cape for centuries, forming an essential part of their medicine cabinet. After the settlers came to the Cape, Honeybush was documented for the first time in 1705 and by the 1800’s it was widely used by the colonists as a restorative drink. As it became popular and the demand grew, commercial plantations were established and the first commercially grown honeybush was harvested in 1996. Today, more than 100 hectares of Honeybush tea is harvested from commercial plantations in the Cape Fynbos region. Read more…

For more information, read:

• CANSA’s Fact Sheet on Honeybush Tea
• Media release: Cape Fynbos Tea Adds Honeybush to South Africa’s Growing Herbal Tea Industry