Beetopia's Honey Tasting Shed on Omaha Flats Road, on the Tawharanui Peninsula, is a family-run honey business where visitors taste New Zealand honey and see live bees. The tastings explain how soil, climate, region and plants shape a honey's flavour, with varieties including rewarewa, pōhutukawa, kānuka, tāmahi, clover, multiflora, tāwari, honeydew, mānuka and thyme. The honey is award-winning.
Visitors can see native Ngāro huruhuru bees, honeybees, bumblebees and leafcutter bees in their natural habitat. The business also offers beehive experiences and native forest tours, and sells handmade beeswax candles and beeswax wraps. Group courses and one-on-one private training are offered, along with educational projects for schools and early childhood centres. For a visitor on the peninsula, the tasting and the live bees are both on the one site.