There’s nothing quite like fresh honey from the hive. And as we discovered there’s also nothing that really compares to jungle honey that comes from your own jungle backyard.
When our gardener, Geyler, needed to go into the jungle to get some building materials for us, he stumbled upon a bee hive! He has encountered them many times before and so he carefully removed some of the honey pods.
He was gentle with the bees, and he didn’t disrupt their honeycomb – they had pods of honey and pods of bee pollen surrounding the honeycomb. So he took that from them without interrupting their flow and without any protective gear. There were no stings and everything went very smoothly.
It felt good to leave their honeycomb in tact so that they can continue their days without have to start from scratch.
We found out later that one bee had been scooped up with the pods and so we walked him/her back to the rest of the hive to rejoin the crew.
We are using all parts of the harvest so we don’t waste anything! The wax we’re using to make a candle, the pollen we use in our smoothies and the honey we use for all the regular things!
The taste of this honey is unlike anything we’ve ever had before! It’s very earthy and woody, at the same time as having hints of so many different flowers mixed in together! The sweetness of it is also less intense than that of store-bought honey, which is actually a really nice thing.
We love exploring the jungle here to discover it’s magic and it’s gifts. And we do our best to work WITH the nature here, aligning with it as seamlessly as possible.
P.S. If anyone knows what the honey pods are called, please comment below! We couldn’t find reference to them – we only found information on honeycomb.