"Pasieka Miody Z Natury" is a beekeeping farm with a tradition spanning three generations. As early as the 1970s, our Grandfather's migratory apiary was harvesting honey from the linden trees of the Książ Landscape Park, and at that time it comprised 50 beehives. We continue the tradition by maintaining the migratory nature of the apiary. We harvest varietal honey but focus on multifloral honey from forest areas and organic crops.
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Honey from forest areas
Honey from forest areas is characterized by a yellow, golden, straw, dark yellow color through ruby red to red-brown, depending on the forest stand from which it is harvested and the season in which it was produced by the bees. Spring is characterized by light honey of straw color, and each subsequent honey harvested during the year is darker than the previous one. Honey from forest areas is denser than nectar honey and contains more minerals, especially: potassium, phosphorus, chlorine, sulfur, calcium, magnesium, and iron.
Individual honey varieties differ in taste, consistency, and to some extent in composition, which influences their range of medicinal properties. Honeys can be more acidic or have sharp, spicy notes. Thus, it is easy to select them according to one's preferences and needs.
The main division of honey concerns the origin of the primary raw material used in its production. The most important types are nectar (floral) honey, honeydew honey from the sweet secretions of aphids, and mixed nectar-honeydew honey.
Honeydew honey is produced from honeydew, the sweet substance excreted by aphids, scale insects, and leafhoppers, combined with plant juices. We distinguish between honey from coniferous honeydew and deciduous honeydew. The former is characterized by a green-brown to black color. Deciduous honeydew honey, on the other hand, is brown, black, or dark red. In taste, both types are slightly sweet, more spicy, and resinous.
Nectar-honeydew honey is a natural combination of honeydew honey and nectar honey. It is produced by bees when they collect both flower nectar and honeydew during harvesting. It comes in a wide range of colors, from light brown through red to dark green and brown.
Spring multifloral honey is one of the first honeys we have the opportunity to taste during the year. Its rich aroma and delicate sweetness are delightful. It is characterized by a light yellow color. In spring honey, you can detect notes of: dandelion, fruit trees, willow, maple, hawthorn, rowan, cornflower, fireweed, and many other valuable plants growing in meadows and forest clearings.
Spring honey from forest areas is collected by bees in April and early May. It is jarred at the end of May or the beginning of June in a dark yellow liquid form and very quickly crystallizes, turning into a straw-colored, very light yellow solid form. This honey has a noticeable note of hawthorn, maple, dandelion, willow, fruit trees, and shrubs. It is the most aromatic honey we manage to obtain. It carries notes of herbs found in meadows and forest clearings. It is the most complex honey in terms of the diversity of plant species that can be harvested throughout the year. Multifloral honey is often called "honey of a thousand flowers" due to the immense wealth of plants it contains.
The next honey we harvest from forest areas during the year is the honey that bees collect during the blooming period of acacia, wild raspberry, and rowan, often combined with the collection of coniferous honeydew produced by aphids, scale insects, and leafhoppers. Honey collected at the beginning of June is harvested later that same month, or in the early days of July. This honey crystallizes much slower than spring honey, taking over two months. After extraction, it has a red or in some years dark yellow, brownish color, which after crystallization changes to a brown, slightly lighter than the honey harvested in July. It is characterized by a very delicate sweetness and a caramel-like taste, with medium-sized sugar crystals.
At the beginning of July, bees in our area start collecting honey from linden trees and wild blackberries. Meadows, celandine, and elderberries are still in bloom. Very often, bees have the opportunity to collect honeydew from coniferous trees. Depending on the year, we obtain this type of honey with an addition of buckwheat nectar, or it completely turns into buckwheat honey. There are years when in July we collect purely honeydew honey from coniferous trees, as in those years buckwheat does not produce nectar. Honey before and after crystallization has a very dark color and is characterized by large sugar crystals.
Forest honey is harvested from forests and the adjacent meadows, thickets, and wooded areas. The immense wealth of vegetation that bees utilize: trees, shrubs, undergrowth, flowers blooming in clearings, and on clear-cuts raspberries and blackberries, or finally the abundance of herbs in meadows adjacent to forests, as well as the honeydew inextricably linked to forest areas, make the honey unique and the most noble.
The beekeeping farm "Pasieka Miody z Natury" offers exclusively natural honeys obtained from forest areas. We combine stationary and migratory beekeeping, focusing on obtaining honeys from forest areas.
Honey is sold daily from 8 am to 8 pm.
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