HOW - MUSANYA HONEY CO.

HOW?

Long experience in beekeeping and the global honey trade makes Musanya Honey Co. the perfect partner to help communities thrive through bee farming in their woodland homes.

HOW?

Long experience in beekeeping and the global honey trade makes Musanya Honey Co. the perfect partner to help communities thrive through bee farming in their woodland homes.

Working with communities and using innovative technology, we provide hives, technology and training to secure viable incomes through beekeeping.

Wild African bees in this pristine natural environment visit flowering indigenous trees, producing exceptional forest honey. We teach communities how to make a sustainable living from nature, preserving trees, bees and people. Honey is traced from forest to shelf using GPS location of hives and blockchain reporting to record organic status and track carbon credits.

Our beekeepers are the heads of households recruited through consultation with local leaders. The entire family is involved in caring for hives. A guaranteed buy-back of the honey secures a stable income for these families.

Working with experts in modern beekeeping, and through an ethical business journey involving local leaders, Musanya Honey Co. is providing a sustainable entrepreneurial alternative to charity which will uplift remote rural communities.

Hives are built using timber from sustainable plantations in the Copper Belt.

Raw timber is dried and treated in a kiln so finished hives are resistant to sub-tropical conditions.

The Ndola hive factory employs over 40 local artisans to produce hundreds of hives monthly.

The robust top bar hives, produced in modular form, are based on a Kenyan design.

When an order comes in from a new group of farmers, hives are packed flat for transport.

Once delivered, hives are assembled at a rally point and taken to the forest to deploy.

Loading flat-packed hives into a small truck. They will rendezvous with an off-road vehicle for the final journey.

Distribution

The buzzing heart of the Musanya Honey project is the production of our hives in the Copper Belt town of Ndola which employs almost 40 local artisans to keep up with manufacture. The hive is based on the traditional Kenyan top bar hive. Top bar hives allow access to the honeycomb by simply raising the lid. Beneath, series of bars each holds a section of honeycomb that is easily removed and replaced.

Far from modern industry and pesticides, this forest honey is incredibly pure.

Hives are provided for free to farmers who also receive training and support.

Guaranteed buy-back of honey means secure incomes for beekeeping families.

Wild bee populations are encouraged and diversified in a pristine natural setting.