SEEKING NO CHEM ORANGE BLOSSOM HONEY

[Julie Cielo]

I am a food manufacturer in LA looking for Orange Blossom honey that has not been treated with strips in the hives. I am willing to pay for multiple 5 gallon buckets of quality honey and discuss future business. Plz contact me if you or anyone you know might be interested or capable. This could end in an ongoing biz relationship. ~Julie 310-713-8130

[susan rudnicki]

Hi, you may find it difficult to get this varietal honey from folks like us as we tend to not set our bees down in commercial orchards where bees get exposed to a toxic cocktail of herbicides, pesticides and fungicides. Chemical treatments in the hive are done by conventional beeks.

[Julie Cielo]

Hu Susan, Thx so much for the reply. Plz educate me…what are conventional beeks? Are you saying that all citrus is sprayed and thats why or is there another reason why they are exposed? THANK YOU SO MUCH for the info.

[susan rudnicki]

Hi, Conventional bee keeping techniques involve the use of bees from breeders genetically selecting certain traits for their “usefulness” to humans—but traits not necessarily useful to the bees—things such as making less propolis, building up faster in Spring, etc. Conventional techniques are also commonly using bees artificially “large cell” or bees upsized from the size of feral, survivor bees. These larger sized bees are more susceptible to pests and diseases vectored by parasites so must be “propped up” with medicines and treatments delivered into the hives—the “strips” I believe you refer to in your first message. Not all citrus is sprayed—if certified organic, a orchard is prohibited from using certain chemical sprays. But bees do not “read the books” and can not be directed from entering any particular area that has not been treated with agricultural chemicals—herbicides, pesticides, fungicides. This is why folks who are concerned about their bees encountering these chemicals tend to NOT set their bees into migratory pollination schemes.

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