Our
Company began as a passion for our hobby in a little town called Cava
Dei Tirreni nestled between the mountains and the sea on the beautiful
amalfi coast in italy. Cava has been given the name Little Switzerland"
for its local geography and for the beauty of the town.
We
have been friends for life and have always taken long walks in
the hills,
valleys and fields of the surrounding area. since our childhood we
were always attracted to the gentle hum that filled the air as
the bees went
about there work of acquiring the life source for their community and
at the same time spreading
the pollen the that fed the life cycle
of the
millions of flowers and trees that fill the valleys and fields. We
constantly
spoke about the bees without any real knowledge of them, until one
day, many years ago we decided to acquire a swarm from an old apiarist
(beekeeper).
We begin with only four beehives and we now manage more than three
hundred.
In
the past we have bred other animals like hens, calves, rabbits, but
at the end you always need to kill what had been raised with so much
care .
With the bees is different, you need
to care for them, and work with to stimulate the best possible results,
to create a balance when it is time to harvest what they have produced,
leaving for them sufficient honey to get them through the winter.
We must constantly protect their
enviorment as better conditions for the bees, assure a perfect symbiosis
with the apiarist. 
The
bees, like all the other animals, get sick; for various reasons due
to the environment in which they are raised and chemicals that many
beekeepers use this is why we use only natural products in their care.
We
choose with care the pastures where we locate the bees because this
is the paramount deciding factor where the bees will pick up the nectar
and we only use areas which are uncontaminated and away from human intervention.
Finally
we would like you to understand that the abundance of rich Mediterranean
flora and the varieties of perfumes and vegetable essences that is found
nowhere else is why we produce a honey of excellent quality,
I
am referring to the Lattari mountains and Amalfitana Coastline where
we are able to produce honey in optimal conditions of many months of
flowers blossoming and the damp costal heat creates honey laced with
the incredible flavors of cherry, lemon, chestnut, orange, acacia, clear
mille-fleur, and honey of the eucalyptus that fills the valleys and
hills overlooking the mediterranean ocean.
Via
B. Lamberti, 1/A - Loc. San Giuseppe al Pozzo
84013
- Cava de' Tirreni (SA) - Italy
email: info@bottegadelleapi.com
Tel.
e Fax: +39 089 4689377
GSM:
+39 339 4237256
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