“I had no background on bees, I just thought it was bees made honey and bees stung people. But, over the last few years, I’ve been with the company I’ve learnt it is a lot more intricate and more complicated than that.”

Hayden Rameka (Ngāti Kahungunu) is the relationship manager for OHA Honey in the Wairarapa. He has worked for OHA for three years managing over 300 landowners in the region.