Impossible to Monopolise

Modern economics has conditioned us to see a world of scarcity.

Scarcity is the organising assumption behind prices, markets, and incentives. It underpins the idea that value (price) is set when access is constrained, supply is limited, and demand is channelled through ownership and control. Most of the systems we move through every day - housing, finance, energy, food - are structured around this logic. Something becomes valuable because it is difficult to access, or because someone has the power to restrict it.

Mead begins from a very different starting point. It begins with flowers and flowers are not scarce - they are widespread, seasonal, resilient, and persistent. They grow at the edges of forests, across hillsides, our backyards, along roads, in places no one actively manages and no one can fully control. You can fence land and register title, but you cannot monopolise flowering. Bees don’t recognise boundaries. They follow their noses (do bees have noses?) Wherever flowers bloom, bees gather nectar, and surplus is created.

Honey exists because of that surplus, and of course the great work of beekeepers.

Mead, converts this abundance and diversity into something we value - a delicious beverage. This is part of why making mead feels grounding in a way that is difficult to explain until you experience it. There is an organic-ness about that whole thing. Flowers lead to honey. Honey leads to fermentation. Fermentation leads to something shared.

Every community and region has its own unique floral mix. So in a world of massive industrial sameness, mead will always be constrained to local. small-batch and distinctive - by nature rather than in a contrived, marketing-spin way.

The vast systems we live within are beginning to feel hollow and distant. Undisturbed Meadery seeks instead exchanges that feel clean, where value is clear, where connecting is found, and where dignity is preserved. The experience of enjoying mead can also elicit these feelings.