Climate change is real. In 2008, a new idea was born. In order to counteract the negative effects of global climate change on bees, we realized we had to plan new beekeeping strategies.

We decided to decrease the hive’s shifting to a minimum, by creating suitable yards to site our hives all year round without moving them. This way we managed to create sustainability by eliminating our carbon emissions, previously necessary for the shifting of the hives.  

By being stationary all year round, these “sustainable” hives turn the nectar of the local flora into honey. They make it through winter on their own stock and at the end of the season we only harvest the excess honey. This is a unique type of honey, which naturally combines all the flowerings of Crete collected by the bees during the year. 

Our season begins in spring when the bees start to collect pollen from the blossoming of the endemic flora (ebenus cretica, cistus creticus, etc). Followed by the early summer fragrant herbs (Sage, Thyme, Oregano, etc) and continues through to autumn when the bees collect pine’s honeydew, carob, and heather. Crete’s environment allows a rich variety of flora, of more than 160 endemic plant species, to thrive, which eventually leads to this sustainable honey.

Furthermore, due to climate factors (lack of rainfall, heat waves, draught), this natural mixture has variable taste each year.

This is why we named it “Cretan Honey”.