La4, Buckwheat Honey
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The honey
Buckwheat flower honey (Fagopyrum Esculentum) is a monofloral honey. It is collected from buckwheat plant flowers of farmer fields with whom MEDOTAVA beekeepers collaborates providing pollination services.
Buckwheat honey in Latvia is usually collected in July, beginning of August. Particular Buckwheat sample comes from the Gauja National park surroundings where organic farming is quite common. Buckwheat flowers are white or pink, but the collected honey is one of the darkest types of honey that can be obtained in Latvia. Buckwheat is a crop that is cultivated for the production of buckwheat grain. You have to locate bee-colonies near quite big fields of Buckwheat as bees collect the nectar of these flowers in the morning, and in the second half of the day the nectar dries up and if it's insufficient bees could fly to other flowers. Buckwheat honey is characterized by a medium to dark amber color, crystallizes in coarse-grained crystals. The taste and smell are very distinctive and even peculiar - molasses, malt. Buckwheat honey is considered to be very healthy, even medicinal, because it contains more antioxidants and iron than other types of honey. Only true honey gourmets can appreciate its peculiar aroma. The beekeeping
Medotava is a cooperative of beekeepers taking care of bees in various regions of Latvia united by beliefs of sustainable and bee friendly beekeeping practices by collecting limited bee produced products in organic way and packaging them in a consumer friendly way for its retail partners.
Cooperative started it's operation in 2017 and now unites more than ten beekeepers collaborating with local organic farmers and municipalities and taking care of more than thousand bee colonies. Within past five years portfolio and volumes of Medotava bee products developed. Export of more and more limited editions of poly-floral and mono-floral honeys, bee-pollen and perga to Europe and Asia countries become a main focus of Medotava operation |
