About us

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Hello Yuntas, we’re Megan and Josie! Honey girls and yuntas for life! 

How did we end up starting a honey company on a remote island in northern Patagonia? Long story. But the short version starts with Josie’s parents, Mike and Liz, two very adventurous souls who moved to Chile in the ’90s to start an abalone farm and a family.

About ten years ago, on a beautiful island called Isla Tranqui, they rounded up some yuntas to haul beehives up the muddy, winding roads of the land above the abalone farm. Curious about bees, how they would do in the rainy climate, and what kind of honey might come from the dense wild rainforest flowers, they officially caught the beekeeping bug!

When we heard about this new hobby, we paused our lives on the Central Coast and made our way to Isla Tranqui for the honey season. What started as a trip home turned into something bigger; we fell in love with the bees, the island, and the softest, most delicious honey that we had ever tasted.

The more we learned, the more we realized how special this honey really is. The forest’s health, biodiversity, and terroir all shape its unique flavor and natural medicinal properties. With no industrial farming or other commercial beekeepers on the island, it really doesn’t get better than that!

So, in 2024, we took a leap, a BIG leap (a few planes, a drive across the grand island of Chiloé, a small ferry boat, and an Indiana Jones-type drive to the honey house, kind of leap) from the Central Coast of CA to Isla Tranqui, Chile, to start Yunta Honey. We want to share this single-origin, deeply rooted, incredibly delicious product: Chilean Patagonia Native Forest Honey, made by our bees in one of Earth's most pristine, unknown, and wild places.

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Megan & Josie