Cl2, Polifloral honey from the Native Forest of Chilóe Island
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The honey
The HONEY is polifloral, the color is bright, and the taste is very mild with a CHARACTERISTIC aroma of the native flowers from this rainy climate.
The Beekeeping
I came to the Chiloé Island IN 1985, and, since I´m a photographer, I started a studio. In 1995 I bought my first three bee hives and took a course in beekeeping. With hits and misses, AND in spite of the rain and the adverse weather, I didn’t GIVE UP and increased MY hives. Today, at 89, I manage about 150 hives.
I installed my hives in Chepu, a place you CAN only reach navigating, about half an hour BY boat. It is a BEAUTIFUL place, it´s close to the National Park of Chiloé where the native forest has abundant flowering from the trees: ulmo, tiaca, maqui, arrayán, luma, tepu, avellano and calafate, and from the meadows, dandelion and alfalfa. My bees are happy because they are in a privileged place, nobody bothers them and, the greatest thing is that no migratory beekeepers would come, and there is no pollution at all. I do not go very regularly to check them so often I would lose the swarms, but I don´t worry about that because they will go to the National Park and there they will make new colonies. I´ve got two apiaries, in Pupelde and Chepu. You can see ME BOARDING THE BOAT TO PUPELDE in this video German Godoy |
