When it comes to truly exceptional honey, the world’s most celebrated varieties share a few defining characteristics and qualities that elevate them from the rest. Think of Manuka from New Zealand, Sidr from Yemen and Tupelo from the United States. Globally renowned not just for their taste, but for their purity, provenance and powerful health benefits.

Inside Punjab’s last forest belt, a new kind of honey producer is emerging. Far away from roads, farmlands and pollution, lies a protected ancient forest that few know exists. This privately owned forest known as “Treephala Forest” is home to over 300 indigenous plants (many of great importance in ayurveda) that have been growing undisturbed for centuries.